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should continue to give daylight to the earth present here below." 

 Then Hao°'hwendjiyawa'k'ho"' said, "Now it is time. From the 

 place whence thy dear grandmother came, therein abides her elder 

 brother who has now made all his preparations, and he is watching 

 for her to remember him. So it will be correct that thou shouldst 

 assign him the duty to give daylight to it. Verily he having said, 

 'It shall come to pass when one will remember me that the earth 

 shall quake.' He also said when his younger sister departed, 'I 

 will go to examine, some time or other, the place where thou shalt 

 continue to go to and fro. So thus it shall come to pass that it will 

 result in good that thou shouldst invite that one to come. So in this 

 way thou shalt do. Thou hast planted the plant whose branches are 

 red (red willow), and thou shalt cut off therefrom the young shoots 

 which have just sprouted out. These shall be two in number; and 

 so from one of these thou shalt scrape the bark and steep it for medi- 

 cine. Just as soon as the medicine is cooked thou shalt take it as an 

 emetic. Now, from the other one thou shalt scrape the bark and then 

 thou shalt cast it on the fire, and at that time thou shalt leap into it 

 when the smoke arises and thou shalt say, 'Behold, now I go thither. 

 So that then (therefore), De'hado°'hwendji3^en'do'"s, thou and I 

 shall meet.' So thus it shall come to pass that at one-half the dis- 

 tance, there at that distance you two shall meet. Now, at that time 

 thou shalt tell him what manner of thing is needful for thee. It is 

 known that he will be able to answer thee, for verily his power is 

 great." At that time then De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' returned liome. 



As soon as he had returned to the place where he had kindled fire, 

 then right away he went out again, going to seek the shoots of the 

 red willow. As soon as he saw them he cut off two of the shoots 

 and took them back with him. Then verily he scraped the bark 

 from the one and then he steeped it for medicine. As soon as the 

 medicine was cooked he at once took it as an emetic. At that time 

 he scraped the bark too from the other one, and then he cast it onto 

 the fire. So at that time smoke arose and now at that time he 

 leaped into the fire and he said, "Behold, now I go thither. Thou, 

 De'hado"'hwendjiyen'do'"s, and I will meet then." Now at that 

 time he departed and he went upward. 



He had not gone very far when he was suddenly surprised that a 

 man was coming toward him there. Then verily they met and the 

 man said, "Now verily thou and I have met. Then what kind of 

 thing dost thou desire?" Now De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' answered and 

 said, "That verily is that I lack some one who could aid me. I have 

 now completed all the things on the earth in their several modes of 

 action. I continue to lack something that should continue to give 

 as much light as the light given by the Sunflower. So I desire that 

 it should give daylight in the highest degree, for is it not known 



