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349 



Song 3. 

 (Osage version, p. 509; literal translation, p. 626.) 



Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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Songs of the High Hills. 



The next group of songs bears the title Pa-^i' Stse-dse Wa-tho". 

 Pa-fi', Hills; Stse-dse, High; Wa-tho°, Songs, Songs of the High 

 Hills. It is not clear as to what particTilar part of the great war rite 

 these songs refer to. "Tall Hills" have not been mentioned either 

 in the wi'-gi-es or the songs of the rites thus far obtained. 



The title of this group of songs is metaphorical and refers to the 

 clouds that appear along the horizon like lofty hills. Metaphor is 

 often employed, not only in rituals but also in the Indian ordinary 

 speech. 



The first song is a call to these lulls to come and give aid, to advance 

 abreast, as in a fixed order. In the second stanza the call is to the 

 advancing clouds to come, but to move apart from each other as 

 they come. 



In the first stanza the phrase ''Ko°'-Qa-ha" indicates the manner 

 in which the objects called are asked to move. The phrase that fol- 

 lows, "ko-i-tha," is the direct appeal or call. All the other words in 

 the stanza except these two phrases given are modified syllables of 

 the final part of the call phrase. The music reveals the echoing 

 quality of the call, as though the appeal was retreating farther and 

 farther into the distance, to become indistinct and finally die away. 

 The second stanza follows the same plan as the first stanza. 



