322 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
that it may cover much ‘hard’ wealth, such as weapons, utensils, and 
silver and shell ornaments ; that the ‘young rain’ (meaning mild showers) 
may fall around his dwelling. The heavy rain is regarded as the male 
rain, and the gentle showers as the female, and both kinds of moisture 
are deemed necessary to fertilize. 
“ Altogether thirty-two of these songs are sung, and their singing is so 
timed that the last one ushers in the first gray streaks of dawn, and the 
visitors (who have been enjoying the singing), then gather in their horses 
and ride home.” (/ézd. pp. 353-354.) 
Another prayer of a Navajo shaman has been recorded, and is thus 
described by Rev. S. D. Peet, whose résumé I quote. (/uter. Congr. 
Anthr., 1893, pp. 196, 197.) 
“This prayer might be called the journey of a soul after a body. It 
is a prayer which must be repeated at one time without cessation, and 
with great care to observe every partin its order. It contains a series of 
word-pictures, pictures of the unseen world under the material figures. 
In it the suppliant calls upon the divinities of the four mountains to 
come to him. There is a place of emergence referring to the story of 
the emerging of the people from under the earth. 
“This place is guarded by Smooth Wind, but one of the war gods, 
Nagaynezni, with a black wind, a slayer of the alien gods, and Tobajis- 
cheni, the second of the war gods, a kinsman to the waters, with a blue 
wand, open the way for him. The passage is now through the chambers 
or houses of the clouds, the black cloud, the blue cloud, the yellow and 
the white clouds. The gods with the black wand and the blue wand lead 
the way. His passage is next through the chambers of the houses of the 
mists, the black mist, the blue mist, the white mist and the yellow mist. 
He arrives at the red river’s crossing, an imaginary locality in one of the 
lower worlds. He then approaches the chambers of the mountains. 
First is the chamber of the black mountain, where the door is guarded 
by the red bear. Next the chamber of the blue mountains, which is 
guarded by the red serpent. The third is the yellow mountain where 
the red coyote guards the door. The fourth is the chamber of the white 
mountain where the red hawk guards the door. He comes to the entry 
of the red-floored lodge, which is the house of the woman, the chief of 
the witches. He enters and reaches the edge of the lodge, then 
the fire-place of the lodge, then the middle of the lodge, and 
finally the back of the lodge. Here he finds the spiritual body, 
which is held in the power of the woman chieftain. The feet, limbs, 
body, mind, dust, saliva, hair, are all recognized. The war god places 
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