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have disappeared (i. e., are dead), I do not know if I shall continue 
to be taken care of. Perhaps I shall only continue to be taken ¢are 
of. Yet as long as you continue to live, I shall continue to give in- 
structions to you, for I pity you. I shall not in any way fail to tell you. 
‘‘And you will not fail to know in advance what is to happen. It 
is only you of whom I think. You will not fail to know if any one of 
the people who live round about desires to kill you. You will know him 
just as if he were not hidden. You will even know when he is going 
to kill your friends. If you are there, he (your friend) will escape. 
None of your foes will be able to catch you secretly. Andif the people 
know this about you and ask you about it, you will tell them ‘this 
is how I found about him, from my sacred pack here,’ you will tell 
them. Do not keep it secret. You shall inform them,” they were 
told. 
‘“‘And when you celebrate gens festivals, you shall get fire from 
my flint knife here. You shall get it from here as long as there shall 
continue to be mortals. The future generations shall get it from this. 
That is what will happen. The fire is mine. And if they obtain 
fire from another, probably the (food at the) gens festival will not 
taste well. It will be as if raw. Even if those who will serve as 
ceremonial attendants think, ‘I shall cook it carefully,’ (they will) 
not. It will be raw insome places. That is what will happen as long 
as the earth and mortals shall last. And if itis gotten out of my fire 
here, that fire will be good. Then everything will be very soft and 
even. Even if the ceremonial attendant does not attend to it care- 
fully, no matter, it will be cooked properly. Surely it will be fine. 
‘‘And this, moreover, is how you should place the sacred pack in 
gens festivals. Always face the owl toward the east. And if you 
do this, if you hold a gens festival at night, you are to face it toward the 
west. You will customarily place this flute (lengthwise) with one 
end toward the east. That is precisely what you are to do. You 
will thus inform the people that will live in the future; you will tell 
them seriously. Then they will not be lost. 
‘‘As many of you as shall see this sacred pack will know about it. 
‘Well, this is how it works,’ you will think. You will not fail to know 
about it. You will even know the workings of the medicine when 
you see it growing. I shall not instruct you about it. I will not 
say to you, ‘this is the kind of medicine.’ But whenever you see it, 
you will think, ‘well, this is it; this medicine is.the kind,’”’ they 
were told. ‘‘And as to the songs, I shall not tell you ‘you are to sing 
this way.’ You will know how you are to sing them in the future, 
and (you will know) what to say in speeches. - You will know what 
