Black and Yellow Buffalo-Painted Lodges - Blackfoot One time two men were sitting on a rock by the side of a river, making arrows. As they looked down into the water they saw a lodge standing on the bottom. One of the men said, "I believe I will enter this lodge." So he dived down into the water. When he got into the lodge he found no water on the inside. A great deal of medicine was hanging up in this lodge, and when the man came out he told all his people what he had seen. At another time the same men were camped at a place where some people saw another lodge down in the water. When this man heard about it, he dived down and entered, as before. Here, again, he saw a great deal of medicine hanging up. Now this was the beginning of the black-and-yellow buffalo-lodges. While the man was on the inside, he was taught the whole ceremony. And when he came up, he got together all the medicine, and painted the lodges as you see them now. These two are the most powerful painted lodges we have. Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, Clark Wissler, New York, The Trustees, 1908. Anthropological papers of the American Musuem of Natural History; v.2, pt.1, and is now in the public domain. Come visit us at. "Keeper of Stories". http://www.newkeeperofstories.com/