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thus he was thinking. ' ' If only some one would tell me whether these 

 that are buried here are living somewhere." Now, at last he got some 

 corn meal, then he went to the edge again, and then he prayed with it 

 to the Sun and said: "Now then, have you perhaps seen anywhere 

 these that are buried here?" Thus he prayed. "Now, if you have 

 seen them somewhere, inform me." Having thus prayed he returned. 

 And then after that he thus continued to pray. After having thus 

 prayed for four days he sat down there and some one came ascending 

 the mesa. The one that ascended asked him ; " Now, why do you want 

 me?" "Yes," said the one that was sitting there, "I am always 

 thinking about these who are buried there, whether it is true that" 

 they are living in some other life." "Now," he, the Sun, said, "yes, 

 they are living. Are you really anxious to see them?" Now the 

 young man answered. "Yes," he said. "Very well," answered the 

 Sun, "I shall then give you this here." He handed him something. 

 "When you will sleep in the evening, eat a little of this, but you tell 

 your mother and them all about it." "Very well," the youth said. 

 "I shall leave," said the Sun. 



The young man now went home to his house. He arrived there. 

 His mother was preparing food. When they had eaten he said to his 

 father: "My father," he said, "is it really true that if some one die he 

 remains somewhere? I want to find out about it." Now, hereupon 

 the mother said to him : ' ' You must not do that way ; yet it is for you 

 (to say)." "Yes," said the young man, "yes, as soon as I shall sleep 

 in the night I shall not wake up quickly; hence, as soon as the sun is 

 risen and is high up, you must work on me and then maybe I shall 

 return and wake up." Now the father said, "Very well." It now 

 was evening. He now ate a little of the medicine. Upon that he 

 slept. He was entirely dead and he went to the Skeleton House. 

 He came to Ap6hnivi. There was a plain trail. On the north side 

 he descended and there somebody was sitting, but that one had died 

 long ago and (behold!) it was that one. He recognized him. 



That one said, "Have you come?" "Yes," the young man said. 

 "Now you carry me," said the one who was sitting there, "at least 

 four steps. There you set me down." "No, I am in a hurry," the 

 young man said to him, and thereupon proceeded. Now the one that 

 was sitting there cried. When he (the youth) had gone a little way 

 again some one was sitting there. He spoke to him in the same 

 manner. He again did not want to. Now he ascended Bow Height 

 (Aoatovi), but there somebody went backward and forward and 

 carried something. It was a woman. She had in a carrying basket 

 some very hard stone (kal^vi), but a bow string was her burden band. 



