nADix] THE PEYOTE CULT 411 



though I were going to die. I was very thirsty but I feared to ask 

 for water. I thought that I was certainly going to die. I began to 

 totter over. 



I died, and my body was moved by another life. It began to move 

 about ; to move about and make signs. It was not I and I could not 

 see it. At last it stood up. The regalia — eagle feathers and gourds 

 — these were holy, they said. They also had a large book there 

 (the Bible). These my body took and what is contained in that 

 (book) my body saw. It was a Bible. The regalia were not holy, 

 Vjut they were good ornaments. My body told them that; and that 

 if any person paid attention to Earthmaker's (God's) ceremony, he 

 would be hearkening to what the Bible said; that, likewise, my body 

 told them. Earthmaker's son (God's son) said that he was the only 

 way. This means that one can only get life from the Word. (My) 

 body spoke of many things and it spoke of what was true. Indeed 

 it spoke of many things. It spoke of all the things that were being 

 done (by the pagan Indians) and which were evil. A long time it 

 spoke. At last it stopped. Not I, but my body standing there, had 

 done the talking. Earthmaker (God) had done his own talking. 

 I woidd be confessing myself a fool if I were to think that I had 

 said all this, it (my body) told me. 



After a while I returned to my normal human condition. Some 

 of those there had been frightened, thinking that I had gone crazy. 

 Others had liked it. It was discussed a good deal. They called it 

 the "shaking" state. It was said that the condition in which I was, 

 was not part of Earthmaker's (God's) religion. I was told that 

 whoever ate a lot of peyote would, through the peyote, be taught the 

 teachings of Earthmaker (God). Earthmaker's (God's) ways and 

 man's ways were different. Whoever, therefore, wished to help this 

 religion must give himself up (to it) . If you ate a good deal of this 

 peyote and believed that it could teach you something, then it 

 assuredly would do so. That, at least, is the way in which I under- 

 stand the matter. 



Once we had a meeting at the home of a member who was sick. 

 The sick would always get well when a meeting was held in their 

 home, and that is why we did it. At that meeting I got into the 

 "shaking" condition again. My body told (us) how our religion 

 (peyote) was an affair of Earthmaker's (God's) and even if one 

 knew only a portion of it, one could still see (partake of) Earth- 

 maker's (God's) religion. 



Thus it went on talking. "Earthmaker (God), His Son (Christ) 

 and His Holiness (the Holy Ghost) , these are the three ways of say- 

 ing it. Even if you know one (of these three) , it means all. Every 

 one of you has the means of opening (the road) to Earthmaker (God). 

 It is given to you. With that (your belief) you can open (the door 



