148 THE OSAGE TRIBE Ieth. ann. 36 



8. Then they spake again, saying: Let these four great gods 



9. Be assembled, O, gra?idfather. 



10. Verily, at that time and place, 



11. They beheld standing Ho^'-ba Wa-^u, the god of the cloudless 



days, to whom tliey spake, 



12. Saying: O, grandfather, 



13. The little ones have nothing of which to make their bodies. 



14. The god of cloudless days replied: O, little ones, 



15. I am tlie only great god. 



16. The little ones shall make of me their bodies. 



17. Wiien they make of me their bodies, 



18. They shall enable tiiemselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



19. The four divisions of the days 



20. They shall enable themselves to reach and enter as they travel 



the path of life. 



21. The people of the Wa-zha'-zhe, 



22. Those of the Ho°'-ga, 



23. And those of the Tsi'-zhu, 



24. The four great divisions of the days, 



25. They shall enable themselves to reach and enter as they travel 



the path of life. 



26. Verily, the days that are calm and peaceful, 



27. They shall enable themselves to reach and enter as they travel 



the path of life. 



28. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



29. Tiiey shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



30. Then to Wa-ko°'-da Ho"-no°-pa-9e, the goddess of darkness 



standing there, 



31. They spake, saying: O, grandmother, 



32. The little ones have nothing of which to make their bodies. 



33. Quickly the goddess of darkness replied: O, little ones. 



34. You say the little ones have nothing of which to make their 



bodies. 



35. The little ones shall make of me their bodies as they travel the 



path of life. 



36. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



37. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life. 



38. The people of the Wa-zha'-zhe, 



39. Those of the IIo"'-Ka, 



