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Song 1. 



(Osage version, p. 511: literal translation, p. 628.) 

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FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1. 



Now let the mystic club be decorated. 



The theme of the second song, which has four stanzas, is the sacred 

 emblems put upon the mystic weapon. While the A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka 

 sings the first stanza, the Xo'-ka, without pausing in his dance, goes 

 through the motion of describing with the tip of his intlex finger a 

 waving line from the top of the club down its entire length (PL 15). 

 Tliis waving line typifies that the God of Day bestows touches upon 

 that region of the earth that lies at the right of the path of the God 

 of Day as it passes tlu-ough the heavens on its M-estward journey. 

 At the singing of the second stanza the Xo'-ka tm-ns the club a little, 

 and with his index finger draws a straight line. Tliis straight line 

 typifies that part of the path of the God of Day that extends from the 

 eastern horizon to the zenith. At the third stanza the Xo'-ka again 

 turns the club a little and makes a waving line from the top of the 

 club down the entire length. This waving line tj-pifies that part of 

 the earth lying at the left of the path of the God of Day and the life- 

 giving touches the God bestows upon that region while passing 

 through th? heavens on its westward journey. At the singing of the 

 fourth stanza the Xo'-ka again turns the club and makes from the 



