Beaver lived in a small underground house' near a pool on the lower part of Spuzzum Creek. The pool was "mystery water" (xax.aa''ko). His sister lived on the opposite or eastern side of the Fraser River. They were the only inhabitants of the country at that time. They wished that the country might be peopled: so Beaver made (or created) people to inhabit the country.
After he had made many people, his sister told him one day that a man was approaching from below (down the river) who metamorphosed everything: therefore he fled to the mountains around the upper part of the creek; while his sister took refuge on the top of a high mountain above Yale, on the opposite side of the river from that place, from which she could watch the stranger.
The Transformer, on his way up the river, came to the people which Beaver had created at Spuzzum, and metamorphosed them.' Then he returned down the river again. After he had gone, Beaver returned home and began to make people, as before.
Some time after this Beaver's sister again warned him of the Transformer's approach, and again they fled into the mountains. Upon his arrival at Spuzzum, the stranger metamorphosed the people as he had on the first occasion.
Thus he came yet a third time, and did the same thing. Then Beaver's sister said, "If he comes again, we will not run away, but will stay with the people, and see what he will do to us." Therefore, upon the Transformer's arrival for the fourth time, they remained where they were; and the Great Chief (or Transformer) turned the sister into a mountain-peak (the same one from which she watched his approach), and her brother he changed into the animal beaver, saying, "You shall no longer make people." It is not related that the Transformer killed or metamorphosed the people the last time: therefore it is supposed by some that these people of Beaver's creation were probably the ancestors of the people there at the present day; viz., the Spuzzum people.
A Thompson Legend