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Then the man said, "That verily is what they customarily call 

 me, De'hado°'hwendjiyeii'do°'s. So thus it shall come to be on the 

 earth present below when the end of things will be approaching in 

 the place in which thou hast assigned me duty, it shall be only when 

 the earth shall quake at which time all people shall name me." 



At that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "So thus it shall come to 

 pass in the place where thou and I have met. At that very place, 

 midway of thy appointed path," there then thou shalt continue to 

 use it as a resting place when thou shalt be traveling at the midway. 

 Customarily thou shalt seat thyself for a short while. Fully again 

 thou shalt recover thy vigor, then usually of course thou shalt pass 

 on. So at that very place it shall be a fundamental thing for the 

 human beings who will be born and continue to live on the earth; 

 whatever kind of thing which in their thinking will be directed to thee 

 thyself shall customarily be placed there at the place where thou dost 

 customarily rest; that will cause it to continue always to be good in 

 what thou shalt answer them, for thou wilt have time to consider it." 



Now at that time De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Now verily that 

 kind of doing has been arranged and that matter will endure so long 

 as the earth continues to be here (written: "the earth will continue 

 to fly on"). So the tribes of human beings living on the earth will 

 continue to say, 'He, our Elder Brother,' when customarily they 

 shall tell of thee. That is the cause that so it shall come to pass that 

 verily thou callest her 'Younger Sister' who was the first one to set 

 foot here below. Now at this time that earth''* abidest here." So 

 now he said, "Now then thou and I will separate. So tomorrow 

 then thou shalt come up over it (the horizon) for the first time, 

 and thou shalt also cause it to be daylight." Then at that time they 

 two separated. 



Wien De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' again returned to the place where 

 stood his bark lodge, thus he said, "Now I will make what shall be 

 called human beings;^^ they will dwell here on this floating island." 

 So as soon as he ended speaking he began to make them, and he 

 made the body of a human being. He took up earth and he said, 

 "This earth which I have taken up is really alive. Thus also is it 

 as to the earth present here, and verily the body which I shall make 

 from that kind of thing shall continue to live." 



Then at that time he made the flesh of the human being. As soon 

 as he had completed it he then meditated and then said, "That 

 verily, perhaps, will result in good that thus it shall continue to be 

 that he shall have life as much as that is wherein I myself am alive." 

 Now at that time he took a portion of his own life and he put it into 

 the inside of the body of the Jiuman being; so also he took a portion 

 of his own mind and he inclosed it in his head; so also he took a 



See note on p. 6C0. 



