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Some celebrating the gens festival also, it is said, were afraid to go 
over there and sit down. Itissaid that it was not permitted that they 
lie down. Indeed the rule was that they had to sit up as long as the 
gens festival lasted. They could not at the time sit with their legs 
straightened out. 
Again it is said that it was against (the rules of religion) for those 
celebrating the gens festival to lean while sitting. They were to sit 
quietly; they were to think how hard it was to celebrate their gens 
festival. That was what they each thought in their hearts, indeed, 
every one of them. 
Those who had children, it is said, would think in their hearts how 
their children might lead good lives, and that they might continue 
to live on with the rest for a long time. That is what those who 
thought about their children would think in their hearts as they 
sat there. That, verily, is the reason why they were not to wish to 
go outside as long as they were holding the gens festival. 
It is said, moreover, that sacred pack, the White Buffalo’s Hoof 
sacred pack, could not but know what they thought in their hearts. 
Now as to what those celebrating the gens festival did. Two 
would always be talking to those celebrating the gens festival. One 
was a To'kan™*; one was a Ki'cko'*‘, they were indeed those who 
really knew how it was, and who knew about everything. It is said 
those were the ones who would tell about every conceivable thing; 
also it is said they would tell them what would be thought about 
their offerings. They were not to talk to one, but all of those who 
were celebrating the gens festival, women as well. 
Then again, there were two others, different ones, and those who 
could sing. They too would merely talk about the songs to them. 
Those who thought in their hearts ‘‘I am going to learn to sing,” 
would go over and sit near. It is said the Ki'ckos would be instructed 
by a To'kan™ old man; and the To’kans were instructed by a 
Kia'cko'“* old man. They were taught the order of the songs, and 
the origin of (the songs) by ones who knew the songs of the White 
Buffalo's Hoof sacred pack well. As often as a song would end, they 
would begin to be taught them. They would be taught them quite 
often. They were not told anything else but only the order and 
words of the songs. 
Exactly when the gens festival was indeed over, they stopped 
telling those young men about them, anyone of them who wished in 
their hearts to learn to sing (them). 
Then there were still two others, different ones, who sang. It is 
said that these would take turns in starting off the songs. One was a 
Ki'cko"“’ and one was a To‘kan™’. It is said that was what they 
did. They indeed sat as a pair. One man sat in between who 
beat the drum. 
