FLETCHER] TWELFTH RITUAL 331 



J'roin the first extra song we learn that the visions had a dwelling 

 place called "Katasha," located just below the abode of the lesser 

 powers. The visions could be sunimoned by these powers from 

 Katasha and dispatched upon a mission. After its accomplishment, 

 the visions returned to their dwelling place to "lie at rest" until 

 again summoned by the ijowers. According to the Ku'rahus, visions 

 were not transitory, called into being for some special occasion and 

 then ceasing to exist, but they were of an enduring nature, retaining 

 an identitj^ by which they could l)e recognized by one whom tliey had 

 visited. This differentiates the vision from the dream, which would 

 seem to be the memory of a vision which came while one slept. 

 Waking visions are not spoken of as dreams. 



The Pawnees locate more or less definitely the powers which can 

 affect man. In the above, far be.yond the light, fleecy clouds, where 

 no man has been or can see, dwells Tira'wa atius, the father of all, 

 the giver of life and bi'eath; in a circle below are the lesser powers, 

 like a great council; beneath them is Katasha, the abode of the 

 visions. The birds, the animals, and plants are intermediaries 

 between man and the jiowers above and the jjowers below in the earth; 

 they bring hini the life and strength which is drawn by the powers 

 from Tira'wa atius. Such is the outline, but the details are complex, 

 no one power or intermediary being fixed or unchangeable in func- 

 tion or character. 



The second extra song, as explained by the Ku'rahus, seems to jjoint 

 out that disaster is sometimes disciplinary and necessary to the 

 strengthening of a man's purpose. 



The third extra song teaches that when one dreams of Mother 

 Corn one should go to a shrine where the sacred corn is kept and 

 there offer smoke to the power which sent the corn to him in his dream. 



EXTRA NIGHT SONG" ■ 



Dliifiram of Time 

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Rlij/fli in ic Rendition 

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Give heed! We tell of Katasha holy, 



Whence the dreams come down, when draweth the night time near: 



Near the gods '' is their dwelling. 



They who watch o'er men; all silently come they down. 



a Music on page 152. ^Gods, meaning powers, is used on account of the rhythm only. 



