Coyote knew that poor Man could not stay warm in the coming days. Many of the people in the Man village would surely perish in the ice-cold Winter.

    So Coyote decided to help Man. He knew of three Fire Beings that lived far away in the mountains. They had captured a piece of the sun and they guarded it jealously. If Coyote could just get a tiny bit of it, then Man would have a piece of the sun to keep warm in his teepees through the long Winter season.