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brought these prayer-offerings here. And now you pity them and 

 let it rain now, and when it rains then a crop will grow again and 

 they will have something to eat, and they will then be strengthened 

 and revived, because they are only living a very little now. 



Hereupon he took out his little bundles of seed and gave to the 

 goddess a small quantity of yellow, blue, red, and white corn as an 

 offering. These he placed before her on the ground. The two 

 deities then arose. M6yingwa had in his left hand a mdngkoho, 

 m6ngwikuru, and a perfect corn-ear (ch6chmingwuu). These he 

 pointed upwards towards the sky. The female deity held in her hand 

 a squash, which was filled with all kinds of seeds, and as MAyingwa 

 pointed up the objects towards the sky she raised the squash with 

 both hands, and then forcibly threw it on the ground on the seeds 

 which the Ah61i had placed there. "There," she said, "in this way 

 I have now planted for all of your people these seeds and they will 

 now have crops." Hereupon Mtiyingwa handed the objects which 

 he held in his hand to the Katcina, saying, "You take these with you 

 and with them you produce rain and crops for your children, the 

 people in Wdlpi. " 



So the Ah61i and the Katcfn-mana returned, first going to their 

 booth, or shelter (kfsi), that was near by in the field.. Here they 

 partook of the food which they had brought with them. "Thanks," 

 the Ah61i said, "thanks that our father was willing. We shall not 

 now go back to the village in vain. " "Yes, thanks, " the mana also 

 said. Hereupon they returned to the village. It was now late in 

 the afternoon. As they passed the top of the mesa upon which Walpi 

 is now situated, they heard somebody singing on top of the bluff, 

 but they went on, and arriving at their kiva they sat down north of 

 the fireplace and smoked over the objects which they had brought 

 with them. "Thanks that we have returned," the Ah61i said, 

 "that we have not been too late for our people. We shall now 

 possess our people." And as they were smoking and thus talking 

 somebody came and entered the house. It was the youth who lived 

 with his old grandmother in Sitcomovi. He came in. "Thanks 

 that you have come," he said, "thanks that you have come and pro- 

 vided something for our people here," whereupon he shook hands 

 with them. "Sit down," Ahdli said, "and smoke, too." So the 

 youth filled the pipe with tobacco that he had brought with him and 

 also smoked over the objects. He took special pains to blow the 

 smoke in ringlets upon the objects. After he had done that four 

 times, also praying to the objects, they became moist so that the 

 water was beginning to flow from them, indicating that their efforts 



