Source: From the complete literal translation in Pliny Earle Goddard, Kato Texts (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology [Berkeley, 1909]), vol. 5, no. 3: 71–74. After the Cahto (Kato) narrator Bill Ray.
What's of interest here isn't the matter of the myth but the power of repetition & naming (monotony, too) to establish the presence of a situation in its entirety. This involves the acceptance (by poet & hearers) of an indefinite extension of narrative time, & the belief that language (i.e., poetry) can make-things-present by naming them. The means employed include the obvious pile-up of nouns (until everything is named) & the use of "they say" repeated for each utterance. In Kato, this last is a quotative [yaєnɪ],made from the root -nɪ-n, "to speak," & the plural prefix yaє.(Cp. use of Japanese particle -to; of tzo = "says" in Mazatec. While yaєnɪis undoubtedly less conspicuous in Kato than "they say" in English, it still gives the sense of a special (narrative or mythic) context. The editor's use of Goddard's literal over his free translation is based on such considerations; also from a feeling that "they say" plus other repetitions add something special to the English &/or American tongues. In brief: there's something going on here.
Charm, in the old sense.