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the spring Ttihciwa, to which he was going. Arriving within a short 

 distance of the spring, he stopped and twirled the buUroarer and blew 

 his eagle-bone whistle to announce, he said, to the water deities (the 

 Bal6l6kongwuu and Clouds — the latter in this connection being con- 

 sidered personifications) his presence. Approaching a little nearer, 

 he blew the whistle again. Going still nearer he did the same thing, 

 repeating it a fourth time. Hereupon he deposited the last bahos and 

 nakwakwosis, the same as at the other places, and also one flat and 

 one warrior baho, and then, with his face turned toward the spring, 

 uttered the following prayer: 



"Taa nu yep it umiingam kiva. It akw nu limuya chamto. Uma 

 6wi it nacikahkang piiu yang itah tigi angyoknagani. Piiu ima 

 pavdnmamantu put akw omi nawungwnakang natukvcinayaq; piiu ita 

 put conaikahkang yep talat ep hahlaigani. Yan lima itamungem 

 kuwanqololayaq ita anghahlaiyani. Pdu put ima itahpokomu nonove 

 t6wat hahlaigani. Piiu shoshoyam hihihtu akwlolomatoti. Pantakat 

 owi itam maksoniyungwa. Pas pai 6vi okio pantani ! Owi um itamui 

 okwatotwani. Pai tuma. Itam shoshoyam aoyani. Owi ka hak haki 

 inalni! Uma shoshoyam iniingkyani !" 



TRANSLATION. 



Now, then, this here,' I have brought for you. With this I have 

 come to fetch you. Hence, being arrayed in this, thus rain on our 

 crop! Then will these corn-stalks be growing up by that rain; when 

 they mature, we shall here in the light,'' being nurtured,^ be happy. 

 When you thus beautiful grasses (herbs) will provide bountifully, we 

 shall be glad over them. Then these our animals when they eat (lit., 

 as soon as they eat, or upon eating) will also be happy over it. Then 

 all living things will be good (in good condition). Therefore do we 

 thus go to the trouble of assembling.* Hence it must be thus.* 

 Therefore have pity on us! Now let us go! We shall all go.* There 

 (let) no one keep any one back. You all follow me. 



' Refers to the prayer offerings. 



'The meaning of this expression is somewhat obscure. My informant thought it was an 

 archaic way of saying " in this life." 



'Namely, by the corn. The word is also used in Hopi to express the idea of transmitting 

 health into a patient by rubbing the germ of a healthy grain of corn over, or as they say into, his 

 body, or of conveying new vigor and soundness into a corn ear whose soundness is doubted by mtro- 

 ducing into its core healthy grains of corn, etc. 



* M&ksoniyungwa. It is almost impossible to give the literal meaning of this term in one 

 word. The first part means "troublesome," "weary," "tedious;" the second "go in," referring to 

 the " going into " the kiva or " assembling " for the ceremony. 



* I. e., as the messenger has just said. 



* I. e., the clouds, which are here personified, and which he has addressed. , 



