m.h.nf.v] INDIAN CONCEPTION OF THE COSMOS 971 



This song probably refers to the Thunderbird. There is an ener- 

 getic swing to the tune that makes it a favorite. In Indian belief the 

 earth is a circular disk, usually surrounded on all sides by water, and 

 the sky is a solid concave hemisphere coining down at the horizon to 

 the level of the earth. In Cherokee and other Indian myth the sky 

 is continually lifting up and coming down again to the earth, like the. 

 upper blade of the scissors. The sun, which lives upon the outside of 

 this hemisphere, comes through from the east in the morning while 

 there is a momentary opening between the earth and the edge of the 

 sky, climbs along upon the underside of the sky from east to west, and 

 goes out at the western horizon in the evening, to return during the 

 night to its starting point in the east. 



is. Ha xaiiawi- xp.n beni ntna 



Ha'uahawu'ncn beni'ui'na. 

 Ha'nahawu'ncn beni'ni'na, 

 Ilina'wun ga'na'ni'iia. 

 Hina'wun ga'na'ni'iia. 



Translation 



The Sanahawunen gave to me, 

 The Hanahawunen gave to me, 



His paint — He mail clean, 



His paint — He made me clean. 



The author of this song met in the spirit world a man of the now 

 extinct Arapaho band of the Hanahawunena, who washed the face of 

 the visitor aud then painted him afresh with some of the old-time 

 mineral paint of the Indians. In accord with the Indian belief, all the 

 extinct and forgotten tribes have now their home in the world of shades. 



111. Ate'be'tana'-ise'ti iiKsrxAMM 



Ate'be'tana'-ise'ti he'suna'nini' — Alie'eye' ! 

 Ate'be'taua'-ise'ti he'suna'nini' — Ahe'eye' ! 

 Na'waa'tanu', Na'waa'tanft, 

 Danatinenawaii, 

 Nita-isa, nita-isa, 

 He'yahe'eye ' 



Translation 



When iirst our father came — Ahe'eye'! 

 When first our father cami — Alie'eye'.' 

 I prayed to him, I prayed to him — 

 My relative, my relative — 

 He'yahe'eye' .' 



This song was composed by Paul Boynton (Baaku'ni, "Red Feath- 

 er"), a Carlisle student, after having been in a trance. His brother 

 had died some time before, and being told by the Indians that he might 



