Paraphrased from A Guide to Velikovsky's Sources.
Cottontail went around the world killing people everywhere. He had two necklaces made of cedar cones. Cotton tail kills Bear (the Great Bear - Big Dipper is also the same Greek constellation originating far into antiquity) with an arrow and causes woman and children to fall over a cliff.
Cottontail went all over the country. He had set out from the west and was going eastward. He wanted to kill the Sun, but first he wanted to kill all the people. There were two boys, a dead mother and a store of food under a rock. Cottontail retreives the food and offers the boys as much as they want if they will cook for him. But the boys are troubled, because to cook the food requires water for the cooking pot, and fire-wood to heat with.
The boys did not want to build a fire. "The cedars do not allow us to touch them, they always shoot at us with their spines." They had scratches on their body therefrom. Cottontail told them to get wood nevertheless. The boys were afraid. He urged them. They went to the cedars, but the trees shot at them and they ran back crying for their brother. Cottontail was angry. He went up close with his big club. The cedars blew up to shoot him, but he broke them all to pieces, saying, "You shall never do this anymore. Anyone, woman, or child, shall be able to use you until the end of the world." Then the boys got wood and build a fire. Next he asked them to get water. "No, we can't get water. Whenever we get cloto to it, a wave comes to wash us away, so we never use water." -- "Go on I am here, I'll fix it so it will be all right." The boys were afraid, but he went with them, standing far back. They walked to the river slowly. As soon as they approached, it came in a big wave, which almost caught them. They ran away calling for help. Cottontail said, "Let us go on and see whether it will catch the three of us." They went a short distance, and when the river came he struck the water with his club and said, "You shall not be mean any longer. Any person, even a child, shall be able to use you for a drink. Only sometimes in the spring you may drown people. Thus it shall be forever." Then the river ceased to trouble the boys, they got water and cooked dinner."
The boys wanted Cottontail to stay with them, but he declined, saying that he had to go about his business "which was to go to the east and break the sun all to pieces."
He went a great ways towards the sunrise. He made a hole to catch the Sun as he came up. He had arrows and a club. The Sun began to rise. As soon as he came up a little, he asked, "Cottontail, what are yoiu doing?" At the mention of his name he became angry. The Sun went down again. Spider came and asked, "What are you doing?" -- "I am waiting for the Sun." -- "He won't come up if he sees you, but I have a web for you if you want to cover yourself." -- "Yes, let me have it." Cottontail put the web over himself and waited for the Sun, who slowly rose but did not notice him. He shot at the Sun several times, but each arrow was burned up. Soon all his arrows were gone. Then he struck the Sun with his club, breaking off a piece, which touched the ground and set fire to the world."
The fire pursued Cottontail, who began to flee. He ran to a log and asked if it would save him if he got inside. "No, I burn up entirely." So he ran again and asked a rock with a cleft in it. "No, I cannot save you, when I am heated I burst." He fled again and asked various things for aid, but only to be told they were unable to give help. He asked the brushes. At last he got to a river. The river said, "No, I cannot save you; I'll boil and you will get boiled." He went to the plain. The fire came close to him. He had already run over the mountains. In the plain the fire came very near. He went to the kogwanna'o weed and asked for help. "Yes, I may burn a little at the top and sizzle, but otherwise I pay not attention to fire." Cottontail dug a little under the weed and hid below it. The fire came and struck the top of the weed, which burned a little. It fell on Cottontail and struck his neck, where cottontails are yellow now. Thus the little weed saved Cottontail."
From everywhere he saw smoke rising. He walked a little ways on the hot ground and one of his legs was burned to the knee; before that he had been long-legged. He thought it would not matter if he had only three legs. Then another leg burned off. "I suppose two legs will be enough." He walked on two legs, and one of them burned off. "I'll use one." He jumped on one till that also burned off. He made a house for himself to stay in overnight. At night the Sun caused snow to fall, which put out the fire. Cottontail saw snow on the ground next morning, but did not go out. The Sun came up and wanted to punish Cottontail. He spoke as follows: "Cottontail, you must be a rabbit untill the end of the world, you shall not be human any more. After a snowfall anyone shall be able to track and kill and eat you. Even children shall be able to play with you. Why did you injure me?" Cottontail heard him, went outside and turned into a cottontail rabbit.