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by Gerald Musinsky

The Fire medicine (or hot rock power) of Bear that provides him with his great strength. Because Bear is in a killing spree, the Ute culture hero, Wolf (Sunuwavi), finds the qumu's hiding place and douses it with water, extinguishing Bear's power and curbing his indulgence of slaying people.