FLETCHER] FIFTH RITTAI. 301 



THIKD SONG'l 



Diagrriiii of Timr 



Rythmic Renrlition 

 I 



Hark! She speaks, and quickly we turn to her. 



Ldoking toward the west to the spot where we 



Passed 'ueath the eyes of gods: and now do we heed her words: 



•■ Yonder is the place in the distant west 



Whence I have come out of the past to you." 



II 



■■ Bom of the earth and touched by the deep blue sky. 



Have I chosen been by the gods to lead. 



You are to hear my voice and follow my strict commands. 



As your fathers did in the days gone by. 



Thence come I to open your pathway here." 



These three songs, the first part of the fifth ritual, seem to have 

 been disciplinary in their influence. They tended to restrain the 

 individual from self-seeking by placing over the party a supernatural 

 leader, on whom all minds must be fixed and to whom all must give 

 obedience. Thus, from tlie verj^ outset, an authority was established 

 again.st wliich none dared rebel. 



Part II. Songs and Cekemonies i>f the Way 



The Ilako party was an impressive sight as it journeyed over the 

 country. It could never be mistaken for an ordinary group of hunters, 

 warriors, or travelers. At the head of the long procession, sufficieiitly 

 in advance to be distinguished from the others, walked three men — the 

 Ku rahus, holding before liim the brown-eagle feathered stem, on his 

 right tlie chief, grasping with both liands the wildcat skin and Mother 

 Corn, and at his left the assistant Ku'rahus, bearing the white-eagle 

 feathered stem. These tlii-ee men wore Iniffalo robes with the hair 

 outside. On tlieir heads was the white downy feather of their office 

 and their faces were anointed witli the sacred ointment and red paint. 

 They bore the sacred olijects forward steadily and silently, looking 

 neither to the right nor left, believing that they were under supernat- 

 ural guidance. Behind them walked the doctors with their insignia, 

 the eagle wings; then the singers with the drum, and behind them the 



"Music on page 71. 



