MICHELSON.] BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES. 393 
think of anything else. So you may please walk away quietly,” he 
was told. Then he started to walk away. That is what they did 
when death first began, and why it began. 
The person who was the first to die was called ‘“‘Tcipaiyapo'sw*’”’ 
[Ghostly]. Then, it seems, the one who first died soon died. When 
the people had a death they did not know what to do when Tecipai- 
yApo'sw* died. At that time when the people had a death they 
would all fast. They merely hung (the corpse on a scaffold). 
And it seems one person began to fast. Lo, he was blessed on the 
fourth day. He was blessed by this Wi'sa'ki‘**. He was instructed 
regarding this story in its entirety. This was related: what happened 
to them when Wi'sa'ki‘*"’s younger brother was slain. At the time 
he was instructed by Wi'sa‘ki'*’. ‘“(This) is the beginning of your 
dying,’ he was told by that Wi'sa‘ki'**. ‘This is what you must 
do,’ he was told. ‘‘You must boil (cook) something. Then you 
must speak to your corpse; you must ask for life. Whatever you 
say to him will truly come to pass,’ he was told. He went around 
with him (Wi'sa‘ki‘*’). That is what is told of him. He became 
their chief. ‘Your corpses,’’ he was told. That very one was the 
one called ‘‘Head-piercer.’’ That one was the very one who first 
took away life from the dead. 
And it seems another person died. It was a woman who died. 
Then, it seems, one person who knew what the brothers had said to 
each other spoke to her. This, it appears, is what he said to her, 
calling her by the term he was related to the dead, ‘‘ Now, my relative, 
this day you have met death. That, it seems, is how our nephews 
have planned our lives to be, that we should each and every one of us 
die. To-day you have lost sight of this daylight. You are to go 
straight to our nephew (sister’s son) Aiyapa'tii“’. So I send this 
Indian tebacco by you,” he said to her, ‘so that your nephew 
Aiyapa tii" may smoke; he must be the one to first smoke this Indian 
tobacco.? Well, I bring you this tobacco, and this my relative § 
whom I have left on the surface of the earth sends this message by 
me when he brings you this Indian tobacco. And this is what they 
ask you for, old age, and this, that they be not in want of blankets 
to clothe themselves when they stand around. That is why I am 
sent here to tell you.’”’ That is what it seems the dead was told. 
“Never mind your relatives whom you haye left here on the surface 
of the earth,® you must look upon him as happy there. You may 
walk away slowly,’ she was told. ‘‘ Where the manitou continues to 
change the appearance of his earth, where he continues to make it 
green, and where he continues to make his skies green, where he con- 
7So the text; obviously, however, ‘‘our nephew”’ [or ‘‘ your son’’] should be substituted for ‘‘ your 
nephew.” 
8 Grammatical singular, but pluralin meaning. 
§ Free translation. 
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