830 THE HAKO, A PAWNEE CEREMONY [eth. anx. 22 



This is the teaching, this is the word sent 

 Down to ns from our fatliers: 

 All of the wise words, all of the good gifts. 

 Now brought to you as my Son. 

 Verily, as of old. all of these things. 

 All. by the east descended. 



Tlie soug addressed to the Pleiades held a peculiar place in tlie 

 ceremony. It had to be substituted for the last stanza of any soug 

 which was Ijeing sung when the constellation was reported as rising 

 above the horizon. This right to set aside the stanza of a re.aular 

 song preceding the act of laying down the Hako seems to bear out the 

 e.xplauatitin of the Ku'rahus, that the song to the Pleiades belonged 

 "to tlie time when the ceremony was being made," and would imply 

 that it was part of a ceremony from wiiich the Hako drew autliority. 



"Tira'wa," the Ku'rahus said, "appointed tlie stars to guide their 

 steps." The Pleiades not only guided luit taught the people, as by an 

 ob.ject lesson, " to remain together." The song would seem to have 

 been received in some locality to the south of the dwelling place of the 

 Pawnees, since the man who obtained it "turned to the nortli and 

 readied his country." This song is one among many indications tliat 

 earlier forms of the Hako ceremony will probably be found among the 

 people of the Mexican plateau. 



SONG TO THE PLEIADES ' 



l>i<i<inii)i (if Time 



Iilii/thiiiic R( iiditiiiii 



Look as they rise. \\\i rise 



Over the line where sky meets the earth: 



Pleiades! 



Lol They ascending, come to guide us. 



Leading lis safely, keeping us one: 



Pleiades. 



Us teach to be, like you. united. 



Tiie songs wliicli belong to the rituals of the night did not fill up 

 the entire time, and extra songs could therefore be requested by the 

 Children, provided a gift was made when the song was called for. A 

 man would step up to the holy place, laj- there a small stick, repre- 

 senting the gift of a hoi-se, and say, "Father, sing for us! " 



" Music on page l.')l. 



