FLETCHER] TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH KITHALS 333 



EXTRA NIOHT SONO i 



Difiijrain of Time 



Rlii/flimic Rendition 

 I 



As I lay sleeping, as I lay dreaming. 

 Out of the distance came one advancing 



One whom I ne'er had seen before, liut when her voice addressed me. straight- 

 way I knew her — 

 Lo! "Twas onr Mother, she whom we know. 



II 



I rose from sleeping, my dream rememb'ring 

 Her words I pondered, words of our mother. 

 Then I asked of each one I met. Tell me. how far may her .shrine be? When 



I found it 

 Sweet smoke I offered unto our Mother. 



THIRTEENTH RITUAL (THIRD DAY). THE FEMALE ELEMENT INVOKED 



P.\RT I. The S.\crei> Feast of Corn 



On the morning of tlu' third day the ritual of the Dawn was repeated. 

 The Children gatliered at the lodge before sunrise and their morning 

 meal was given tliem by the Fathers. 



On the preceding day the masculine principle, the sun, had been 

 "remembered." On this day the feminine, the earth, was to be 

 honoi-ed. 



The ceremonies began by the sacred feast of Corn. It followed 

 closelj' upon the morning meal and was wholly ceremonial and com- 

 munal in form, the people taking a spoonful from bowls that were 

 passed around the lodge from one group to another. 



The corn was provided and ijreparcd by the Children, they who 

 were to be the recipients of the good promised by the ITako and pre- 

 figured by this act — the gift of plenty that they were to receive. 



Part II. Song to the Earth 



Tlie song lo the Earth followed the rite. Its responsive liturgical 

 form calls to mind the song which opens the first ritual. Its theme 

 is similar. As the ceremony proceeds, its purpose, the perpetuation 

 of the clan or tribe by the gift of children, is brouglit more and more 

 clearly to light. 



" Music on page l.">9. 



