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for us, all of this tribe, as many of us as are in the village: you must 
come and help us so that we cease coming on death,’’ is what is said, 
‘so that we merely reach out the span of our (allotted) lives.’’® 
(Sylables.) 
“The dead will continue to be led yonder where the fourth tier of 
the hanging sky is; he will continue to be led there by an angel 
(eagle), the chief of those who fly about here (on this earth). He is 
the very one who will take him. That the latter may not perhaps 
be lost is why he is taken, so that that soul may perhaps go in com- 
fort to wherever we go.” 
Now at the time when the dead is brought, when they first begin 
to lead him where he shall be buried, a song is sung, it is sung on their 
way: 
(Sylables.) 
That is the way they sing on their way. And (God) is addressed: 
“Let the dead be led yonder, up above,” so they say. 
“Now this day you must begin to lead him. You will not fail to 
know what to do when you start to lead him,” an angel is told. 
“Only this, let there be a green sky, and then kindly lead him with a 
good will where there is an old sky,’ and then you’ will leave with 
a good will where we are here, as many of us as say farewell to you 
for the last time, so that I may go and live with my fellow mortals. 
“You, the dead, are to think only kindly (of us) on your way 
yonder where the manitou who travels about (i. e., the sun) continues 
to set. At the time when they start to take you they will stop and 
kiss you here in the doorway,” (the dead) is told. ‘And they will 
start to lead you half as high as a tree and they will stop to kiss you 
there. You must only think of old age. Then at the treetops you 
will again be kissed. And halfway up to the sky they will take you 
and kiss you there again. And from there you will be taken yonder so 
that you reach the sky. And you must tell the message which your 
relatives have sent by you,” he is told. ‘‘‘ Well, here is this drum. 
The person called Panani‘kwi‘“‘ was blessed. I suppose you know in 
whatever way you thought of her,’ is what they said when I was on the 
point of leaving. It was at that time that all my relatives whom I 
6“*QOur chief kindles a fire for us:’’? the sun. The word ti’ya'tAgwi is rhetorical. The change from 
exclusive toinclusive first person pluralis idiomatic. The phrase “‘ you must come and help us”’ refers to 
thesun. Note also that neme'‘to'sineniwa’‘enan"i' is merely rhetorical for -wenenan'". 
7 The word ut6'kimi (which ordinarily means ‘“‘his land’’) is a holy word in this sense. 
8 The dead. 
* Theimplicationis, you must bless usin the same way you blessed PAnani'kwii'4", for we have fulfilled 
our part of the contract by beating the drum. 
