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At the close of the last stanza the Xo'-ka puts down in front of 

 him the Wa-xo'-be. 



Song 8. 

 (Osage version, p. 398; literal translation, p. 536.) 



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non thatsi-e sho" ni da we, Tsi - go tha tsi-e sho" ni da we, Tsi ■ 



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go tha tsi-e sho^ni da we, Tsi - go tha tsi-e sho" ni da we. 



Spieit Songs. 



At the close of the series of songs relating to the opening of the 

 shrine, the A'-ki-ho'^ Xo'-ka, after a short pause, begins to sing the 

 first of the group of Wa-no°'-xe Wa-tho°, Spirit Songs, next in order. 

 These songs teach the initiate that even as he lives and moves about 

 in the midst of earthly life he also lives in the midst of the realm of 

 death; that there is continuity of life not only in this world but in 

 the spirit world as well. 



These songs refer to the spirits of his ancestors, of the men who 

 have fallen in battle, who belonged to his ovra tribe, and also to the 

 spirits of the men of the foe, for all travel upon the same well-trodden 

 path to the spirit land. 



