MICHELSON.] BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES. 395 
tinues to change their appearance—you have lost sight thereof. You 
may merely walk away quietly and slowly. This is what you are to 
say to Aiyapa'ti“" when you come to him, ‘This is the message my 
relatives send by me, that they be not hungry and that they all may 
easily obtain blankets to wear.'® And when the manitou sends wars 
on his lands, also (he will provide things) whereby they may appear 
in gay attire. That is the message my relatives send by me to tell 
you. And this: that they may have all kinds of food to eat, such is 
the message they send by me to tell you. And they sent this Indian 
tobacco by me,’”’ he said to her. That is what they said to their 
corpses if a man died, or a child, or an old woman, or a woman. 
That indeed is from where their speech is gotten: it is gotten from 
the time Wi'sa‘ki'*"’s younger brother was slain. 
And then a man died who had children, a mother, and a wife. He 
was spoken to when he was laid (in the grave). First an offering 
(of tobacco) was made to Mother-of-all-the-Earth. And then they 
begin to tell her this: ““O Mother-of-all-the-Earth, who art about 
everywhere, you shall first joyfully receive this Indian tobacco. 
You are to take this, your grandchild, within your body. Verily 
you must first joyfully receive this Indian tobacco. You are to help 
this, your grandchild, when he speaks to Aiyapa 'ti‘*", as you continue 
to make yourself green when you receive your grandchildren in your 
body,” she was told. 
(The corpse was told) ‘“‘This day you will come to our nephew, and 
you will be better off there,’ he was told, “you have children, a wife, 
a mother, a sister, and a brother whom you are leaving. So you are 
to merely quietly help them. You will deliver their message when you 
bring him this Indian tobacco which they send by you. You will 
tell for them what they desire from their nephew, that they and all of 
us be blessed with life by our nephew.” That is what he was told. 
“And you are not to think backwards of your relatives.°. You must 
simply go quietly to our nephew. (Otherwise) you might make 
your relatives poor.’ That is what he was told. ‘‘You are merely 
to think of the message they have given you as you walk along. 
And this. You have lost sight of the earth and the sky which hangs 
everywhere.’ That is what the relatives said to the dead, (the rela- 
tives) who spoke at length to those dead. ‘You are to walk quietly 
towards where the sun goes down.’ That is what they said to him. 
It was all gotten from the time that Wisa‘ki*’’s younger brother 
was slain. The speech was obtained from that. That is how I 
know about them. They (the dead) are four days on the way when 
taking this food. That is why those who bury (the dead) feast for 
four days, so that Aiyapa'ti“* might be taken (the food). Those 
10 Free translation. 
