The people notice a decrease in the rain, and they start a canal from a point actually a bit to the north of historic Pima territory but a point at which one of the longest of the actual Hohokam canal systems had its tap, into the Salt River. The myth begins with a most obscure passage stating that Siuuhu expected a loss of both seawater and rains. Irrigation obviates rain and therefore would obviate the wine feasts of which Smith and Allison disapprove. The second story, "Origin of Irrigation," is a clear-cut man-over-nature myth. The other mythologies see Siuuhu as equal to the Hohokam in moral frailty, as we will discover in comparing the accounts of Siuuhu's murder. But, in fact, godly dismay over human wickedness is a theme only for Smith and Allison. Throughout that time, then Siuuhu might have observed this development with dismay. Thin Leather places the origin in the Hohokam era, and if one supposes that Siuuhu was a factor The version of the origin of saguaro wine given at the end of part 3, from Thin Leather, does not mention Siuuhu or his equivalent I'itoi. Siuuhu, they say, did not intend saguaro to be used this way. To Smith and Allison, the ceremony is a misuse of saguaros and an excuse for drunkenness. The songs in Smith's story allude to this, but the prose ignores the songs' hints. In their prose narrative and comments, Smith and Allison do not mention the rain-bringing aspect of the wine ceremony. Thus, the humans act in sympathy with the clouds that they hope to attract. Wine feast speeches sometimes also mention drinking and the subsequent vomiting of cactus wine and the rumbling of people's stomachs and bowels. Then the typical speech turns to rain and the seeding of the local fields. Taken together, all these texts, including Thin Leather's Corn speeches, normally dwell first on the obtaining of wind, cloud, rains, and seeds from the inhabitants of distant "great-houses," that is, great-houses at the edges or corners of the universe. Actually the speeches included in the Thin Leather Corn and Tobacco text, although attributed to Corn, are like the ones used at wine ceremonies, or "wine drinks" ( nawait i ' ita ), as these events are called in Pima-Papago. This is best seen in the chanted or orated speeches that are given during the event. The cactus wine ritual is for the purpose of bringing rain. It gives an origin of the cactus wine ceremony, a topic that was treated at the end of the Thin Leather Corn and Tobacco text, above. The first is really an adjunct to the stories on farming and family life.
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