Star Boy

The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Tonight, Star Boy, the legend of the two morning stars, as the tale is told by the medicine man of the great Blackfoot Indian Nation.

It is an ancient story of love, symbolizing the fact that in the clear morning skies of of our western prairies, the planet we call Jupiter sometimes appears near the Morning Star like a smaller double or a sun. There are two bright stars which sometimes rise together in our morning skies just before the great sun begins his daily journey to the land of

the endless waters. One is the Morning Star. The other is Star Boy, the Morning Star Sun, who once was known as Poya or Scarface. I, Nato-sin, keeper of the medicine of the great Sun God, will tell you the story of these two stars.

And of the Blackfoot, that is, six-a-car woman, who was wife to one and mother to the other. And I will tell you of Swatsaki's sad fate. And of how Poya, the fruit of her love for the morning star, finally joined his father in the skies became a star himself. It was long ago when the people of the Sixth

Acar still used dogs instead of horses to draw their burdens and long before the white man came. It was in those days one night in the gentle spring that our people were camped near the mountains and two young maidens were sleeping in the fresh grass outside their tepee.

the clean air, dreaming of their lovers to come. One of them was Swatsaki, the feather girl, the other her younger sister who was called Anatoki. And just when the dark of night began to take refuge behind the rim of the buttes, Swatsaki opened her eyes and gazed at the morning star who was just then rising over the prairie.