catfish, who raises the boy, until one day the boy, all grown up, follows a Antelope-Girl to a house where he finds a girl. The girl asks him to marry her, but first he has to ask for his parents' blessing. The boy asks the catfish for his birth parents, and is told of a store owner and his wife in Los Lunas. The boy rides a horse and pays a visit to the couple. After explaining the whole story and talking about the girl at the house, the couple give their son a candle and matches so he can better see his intended bride at night. The boy rides back to the hut and lights a candle on his bride while she is asleep, but lets a drop of wax fall on her. With that, the girl's house changes back to an antelope's burrow, and he is all alone in the world. He wanders off the plains and climbs up a tree to flee from a coyote pack, when he sees a light in the distance. He climbs down the tree and goes to the fire, where a person named Distella Glande (estrella grande, 'great star') is. The great star takes the boy in as his servant and orders him to kill a steer every day and fill a trough with water, but forbids him from entering a nearby shed. One day, the fulfills his tasks and gets curious about what lies in the shed. He opens it and finds a bay horse readily saddled. The horse talks to him that Distella Glande is planning to devour the boy, and that they must make their escape. The boy closes the shed and steps into a lead well, injuring his foot. The great star comes back and asks the boy what happened to his foot, and he lies that the great star's knife and axe hurt him. The next morning, the boy releases the horse, takes its comb and brush, a steer's stomach and the lead well with him, and rides away. The great star discovers the boy fled on the horse and chases after him. Sensing his approach, the horse tells the boy to throw behind them the comb (with creates a large lake), the brush (which becomes a thick timber), and the steer's stomach (which becomes rocks and canyons). As a last effort, the horse asks to be