FLETCHER] SEVENTH AND EIGHTH RITUALS 313 



See the smoke ascend! 



Now t}ie oilor mounts, foll(jws where his voice 



Sped, intent to reach 



Where the gods " abide. There the odor pleads, 



Pleads to gain us help. 



In the first ritual of the Preparation, when the making of the Hake 

 had been completed, the Father had offered smoke to Tira'wa atiiis, 

 the father of all, the give)- of life. It was a prayer for the fulfilment 

 of the ceremony about to be inaugurated. Now when the lodge had 

 been made ready as a nest, smoke was offered by the Son, who was to 

 be the recipient of the gifts promised by Tira'wa thi'ough the ceremonj'. 

 This act of the Son, performed at the request of the Father, bi-inging 

 the two together before Tira'wa atius, closed the first division of the 

 Hako ceremony. 



THE CEREMONY 



First Division. The Public Ceremony 

 eigthth ritual (pirst day). the fathers feed the children 



Heretofore the rites of preparation had been in the presence of the 

 Hako pai'ty, the Son, and his immediate kindred, but after the offering 

 of smoke the heralds were commanded to summon the people to the 

 lodge. Anyone could now come in and join the party of the Son in 

 the making of gifts, and share in the general benefits of the ceremony. 



When the messenger of the Son had come to the Fatheis, outside 

 the village, he had been fed, as a paternal act, and now, when the 

 people, representing the Children, were gathered within the lodge, , 

 the Father's first act was to place food before them. While it was 

 yet standing Ijeside the fire, the sacred objects were taken up from 

 their place at the west and carried four times around the lodge. 

 The songs which accompanied these circuits were for the instruction 

 of the people, teaching them to remember the powers before partaking 

 of their gifts. The first, an appeal to Tira'wa atius, is in five musical 

 phrases, suggesting the five motions symbolic of the four directions 

 and the above. It was sung four times. 



FIRST SONG'' 



Diagram of Time 



a Gods, meaning powers, is used because of the rhythm. '' Music on page lOT. 



