LAFLESCHE] EITE OF VIGIL FREE TRANSLATION. 361 



tion of the tribe, one part of which represents the Sky and the other the 

 Earth ; in the camp of the people when arranged in ceremonial order, 

 at wliich time the dwellings of the Tsi'-zhu tribal division and those 

 of the Ho°'-ga are separated by an avenue extending from east to 

 west which represents the division of the sky and the earth as made by 

 the path of the God of Day (see 36th Ann. Rept. B. A. E., fig. 3, p. 69) ; 

 in the sanctuary that is dedicated to the keeping of the Tsi'-zhu 

 Wa-shta'-ge, the Peace gens, a dwelling that has two doors, one at the 

 east and the other at the west, thi-ough wliich the God of Day travels 

 on his westward life-giving journey (see 36th Ann. Rept. B. A. E., 

 pp. 68-69) : in the ceremony that follows the bringing forth of the 

 Sacred Hawk from its slu'ine into the light of day at an initiation of a 

 candidate into the mysteries of the war rites. During the singing of 

 the songs that accompany this ceremony the officiating No^'-ho"- 

 zhi°-ga lifts high above his head the bird and then with its body makes 

 a downward stroke, giving in pantomime the straight lines that sym- 

 bolize the path of the God of Day, and the waving lines that are 

 emblematic of those parts of the earth that lie to the right and to the 

 left of the path of the God of Day but are touched by that god as he 

 takes his daily westward journey (p. 98) ; in the straight and the wav- 

 ing lines put by the Xo'-ka upon the mystic weapon; in the lines 

 roughly described upon the earth by the Xo'-ka at the singing of the 

 fourth song of this group. (See Fig. 2, E.) 



The use of archaic words has partly obscured the sense of the lines 

 of Song 4. It is clear, however, that the intent and purpose of 

 Songs 3 and 4, with the dramatic acts, is to unite the emblems put 

 upon the mystic club and those to be put upon the earth, in connec- 

 tion with the position of the "Vertical" as indicated by the initiate, 

 with the emblematic weapon, at the singing of tlie third song. In 

 this complex symbolism the No'''-ho°-zlii"-ga have endeavored to 

 express three fundamental conceptions, namely: There resides within 

 the sky a mysterious creative power: this mysterious power abides 

 also witliin the earth, and by the mystic union of the sky and the 

 earth, life is brought forth in all its variety of material forms. 



From the words that are clear and intelligible a free translation of 

 the first and second stanzas may be made. The other two stanzas 

 are repetitions. 



