Dec, 1903. The Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony — Voth. 39 



The second stanza is exactly the same, only in the third line they 

 sing "totimhoyam" (little boys), instead of manaha (girls). 



Translation. 



The day has risen, 



Go I (to) behold the dawn, 



Hao! you maidens! 



Go behold the dawn! 



The White rising! 



The Yellow rising! 



It has become light. 

 Morning Song, -chanted by Masatoiniwa, Ng6si, and sometimes 

 one or two others on the morning of the second, third, fourth, and 

 ninth days: 



Talaokuiwa! The day has risen! 



Talaokuiwa! The day has risen! 



Niihui aokiihuwaqoho Go I to behold it. 



MUyingw mongwitui, The Miiyingwa chiefs 



Homftuilaoniyumuy, With shelled corn busy themselves. 



Tatotohokahay He is croaking 



M6h6civahakwatQhui, The water frog, 



Wuhupat kahaotaha (About) big corn-ears 



TohokiyQyQywui It is humming. 



Sikvatungnawatahai. Yellow (rest obscure). 



As soon as the women have all returned Masatoiniwa, Ngdsi, and 

 usually one other woman, put on heavy blankets and their moccasins, 

 as the night is cold, and then leave the kiva. Masatoiniwa takes a 

 pointed stick and the baho with the long "road" from the altar, Ngdsi 

 one of the crooks, the third woman also a crook and a corn-ear, and 

 all take also some sacred meal. Following the trail that leads from 

 the village in a south-easterly direction, they descend the mesa and 

 proceed on the main trail leading towards the east for about a quarter, 

 of a mile. Here they turn to their left and stop about twelve or fifteen 

 yards north from the trail, where Masatoiniwa digs a hole about a foot 

 and a half deep, and from this in an easterly direction a trench a few 

 inches deep. All then throw their meal into the hole and along the 

 trench, whereupon Ng6si places the baho into the hole and the road 

 along the trench and Masdtoiniwa closes it up. All three then take a 

 position at the east end of the trench and facing the east they sing the 

 following little song twice: 



*'Qoyangwunu kuivd. The white dawn has risen. 



Sikangwunu kuiva. The yellow dawn has risen. 



Put nu talaongwayatni. " That I shall "light embrace." 



