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TRIBiVL RITES — FREE TRANSLATION 



93 



19. The o-do"', spoken of as the six o-do"'. 



20. The o-do"' of every description I have made them to symbolize 



21. Verily at tiiat time and place, it has been said, in this house, 



22. He contmued: Behold the figures on the back of the turtle. 



23. I have not made them without a pvirpose. 



24. The little ones shall use them as a means t<> 



reach old age as they travel the path|[of 

 life. 

 2.5. When they use these figures as a means to 

 reach old age, 



26. They shall always live to see old age. 



27. Wlieu the little ones make of me their 



bodies, 



28. Their skins shall become impenetrable. 



29. Behold the figures on my breast (the tur- 



tle). 



30. Those figures also 



31. I have made to be a symbol. 



32. A symbol of the god of the upper regions (the 



arch of the sky), 



33. The gray line that lies across my breast, 



34. A god of the upper regions (the galaxy), 



35. I, as a person, have verily made to sym- 



bolize. 



36. When the little ones make of me their 



bodies, 



37. They shall enable themselves to live to see 



old age. 



38. When the little ones of the Ho°'-ga and those 



of tlie Tsi'-zhu (divisions) 



39. Make of me their bodies, 



40. They shall enable themselves to live to see 



old age. 



41. The four great divisions of the days (stages 



of life) 



42. They shall always successfully reach and enter, as they travel 



the patli of life. 



The Wa-ke'-stse-dse Gens 



The Wa-ke'-stse-dse gens is brought to this ceremony to take its 

 place as a mute representative of an aciuatic plant, its gentile symbol — 

 nameh', the Typha latifolia, commonly called cat-tail (fig. 6). The 

 presence of this gens is necessary to complete the tableau representing 

 the water part of the earth, for the reason that the plants which draw 



f IG. 6.— Wa-kc'-stse-dse 

 (_Ti/pha latifolia). Lite 

 symbol of the Wa-ke'stse- 

 dse (Cat-tail) Kens of the 

 Wa-zha'-zhe subdivision 

 of the Ho»'-ga great divi- 

 sion. (From a drawinc 

 by F. C. Walpole.) 



