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VII. "The Sky is Lost" to the mourner. "Now, the Sky is completely 

 lost to thy mind. Thou knowest nothing of what is taking place in the Sky." 



But the Celebrant comforts with the words, " We cause the Sky again to be 

 line for thee; it will be beautiful, and thou wilt think contentedly as thou wilt 

 again look upon the Sky." 



VIII. "The Sun is Lost" to the mourner. "Such a person knows nothing 

 about the Sun in its movements, nothing of its drawing nearer and nearer 

 to him." 



Fig. 235. — Chief Abram Charles, Cayuga, Iroquoian stock, 

 annalist and ritualist. 



But the Celebrant comfortingly says, "We now replace the Sun in the Sky 

 for thee .... and when the time for the dawning of ai new day comes thou 

 wilt see the Sun perfectly when it will rise .... thy eyes will rest upon it as it 

 draws nearer and nearer to thee .... When the Sun will place itself in 

 mid-sky, then around thy body rays of sunlight will abundantly surround thee." 



IX. " At the Grave— the Heap of Upturned Clay." The shock of grief 

 " thrusts a person aside to the place where arises the mound of earth which 



covers the one in whom one's mind confided and received support L'U- 



happily one thinks, for one's mind lies there beside the grave of uptorn earth. 



There it is shaken and rolled about on the ground It knows nothing 



else." 



