In the Tewa emergence narrative recorded by Ortiz, the Corn Mothers, still in the underworld at Sipofene, send one of the men to explore the world above. Attacked by the predatory animals and then accepted by them, he is given a bow, wrapped in buckskin, and has his face painted; he returns to the people transformed as Mountain Lion, the Hunt Chief, the first of the Made People, the category of ritual leaders who thereafter guide the pueblo. As prototype of the Hunt Chief he stands at the head of the sacred priesthoods that emerged with the people from beneath Sandy Place Lake, and his story fuses the person of the first ritual leader with the Mountain Lion, patron predator of the north.