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names as Returned, T he-former-one-rising, Rising-on- 

 the-field, and so forth. 1 The Koryak hold that the 

 souls of the dead go to the house of The-One-on-High. 

 He hangs them up there on posts and beams. When 

 the time comes for a soul to be born once more 

 he sends it for that purpose to a relative of the 

 deceased. As soon as the child is born the father 

 divines what relative has returned, using a divining- 

 stone much in the way it is used by the Chukchi. 

 Sometimes the divination is by means of the child 

 himself. The names of dead relatives are enumerated. 

 When the child cries the name is not the right one ; 

 when he stops crying or begins to smile his identity is 

 ascertained. As soon as the name is given the father 

 carries the child out to his people and says : " A 

 relative has come." Mr. Jochelson relates that during 

 his stay in the village of Kamenskoye a child was 

 named after its mother's father. The husband lifted 

 his child and said to the mother : " Here, thy father 

 has come." 2 In Assam the Mikirs give to children 

 born after the death of relatives the names of the 

 deceased and say that the dead have come back ; " but 

 they believe that the spirit is with Jom [the Lord of 

 Spirits, in the abode of the dead] all the same." The 

 solution of this apparent contradiction seems to be 

 that the dead go for awhile to " J6m Recho's city," 

 but that they return to be born again ; and this goes 

 on indefinitely. 3 



In New Zealand the priest, after certain ceremonies, 

 first recited to the child the following stave : 



1 Bogoras, Jesup Exped. vii. 512 ; Am. Anthr. N. S. iv. 635. 



2 Jochelson, Jesup Exped. vi. 26, 100 ; cf. 203, 237, 274. 



3 Stack, 29. 



