When the brothers Tilikus and Poharamas had carried the fire around the world and met in the north, just half-way between east and west, they struck their torches together and threw them on the ground. The moment before they joined the burning brands two persons rushed out between them. One was Klabus and the other Tsaroki, who had carried the invitation from Torihas to Katkatchila. They just escaped. The flint rock that Tichelis dropped lies there yet, just where it fell, and when the Wintu people want black flint they find it in that place. Poharamas and Tilikus ran home as soon as they struck their torches together. Katkatchila had a little brother. He put the boy on his back, and went beyond the sky where it touches the earth in the south. Yonot, the mother of Pohila, took her son and went behind the sky; her husband, Tilikus, went with her. Poharamas went to Olelpanti. He flew up to where Olelbis is. Olelbis looked down into the burning world. He could see nothing but waves of flame; rocks were burning, the ground was burning, everything was burning. Great rolls and piles of smoke were rising; fire flew up toward the sky in flames, in great sparks and brands. Those sparks became kolchituh (sky eyes), and all the stars that we see now in the sky came from that time when the first world was burned. The sparks stuck fast in the sky, and have remained there ever since the time of the wakpohas (world fire). Quartz rocks and fire in the rocks are from that time. There was no fire in the rocks before the wakpohas. When Klabus escaped he went east outside the sky, went to a place called Pom Wai Hudi Pom. Tsaroki went up on the eastern side of the sky,--ran up outside. Before the fire began Olelbis spoke to the two old women and said: "My grandmothers, go to work for me and make a foundation. I wish to build a sweat-house." They dug out and cleared a place for the sweat-house the day before the world-fire began. Olelbis built it in this way: When the two women had dug the foundation, he asked,-- "What kind of wood shall I get for the central pillar of the house?" "Go far down south," said the old grandmothers, "and get a great young white oak, pull it up with the roots, bring it, and plant it in the middle to support the house." He went, found the tree, and brought it. "Now, my grandmothers, what shall I do next?" "Go north and bring a black oak with the roots. Go then to the west, put your hand out, and there you will touch an oak different from others." He went north and west, and brought the two trees. "Now," said Olelbis, "I want a tree from the east." "Go straight east to a live-oak place, you can see it from here, get one of those live-oaks." He brought it with the roots and said,-- "Now I want two trees more." "Go to the southeast," said they, "where white oaks grow, and get two of them."