FLETCHER] TWELFTH RITUAL 159 



have been pnttin.u- yon ou trial. I am able to bring strength to the 

 people, the gift of life, and good fortune and success in war. I caused 

 all your misadventures that I might try your courage. Now, you 

 shall not go home on tlie morrow. If you should, the people would 

 saj', 'Mother Coi'u is i)Owerless.' In the morning you must do as I tell 

 j'ou. You must go toward the soulheast; there j^ou will come upon a 

 village where the people have many ponies; these yoci shall capture 

 and return safely and in triumph, and lea.rn that I have power to lead 

 to success." 



The leader did as Mother Corn had directed, and everything c^ame 

 to pass as she had said. 



This song has uo fixed place in the ceremony but it must be sung 

 at night, because the dream came at that time to the warrior. 



The next song is about a man to whom Mother Corn came in a dream ; 

 it happened very long ago. The song and the story are very old and 

 have come down to us from our fatheis, who knew this ceremony. 



Mother Corn spoke to this man in his dream. We are not told what 

 she said to him, but when he awoke he started out to find the man in 

 whose keeping was a shrine contaiuing the ear of corn. As he walked 

 he met a man and asked him, "Is it far to the lodge where the corn 

 is?" The man pointed to a lodge some distance off and said, "It is 

 within." Then the man who had had the dream walked toward the 

 place. As he entered the lodge he saw a shi'ine hanging on one of the 

 IJoles and he asked the keeper if it contained the sacred ear of corn, 

 and he was told that it did. Then he took his pipe and offered smoke 

 and prayer in the pi-esence of the corn; because Mother Corn had 

 appeai-ed to him in a dream and had spoken to him he came to offer 

 her reverence. 



EXTRA NIGHT SONG 



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 • = Pulsation of the voice. Transcribed by Edwin S. Tracy. 



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