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the star which will be alone in its greatness, then the night will change, 

 and then they two will exchange themselves, and a new daylight 

 again be on the earth here present. When thou seest the large Star 

 then thou shalt depart and thither thou shalt go to the place where 

 my lodge is, and so then I will be expecting thee." 



As soon as he again arrived at his lodge then his Grandmother said, 

 "What manner of thing has come to pass, because we were so much 

 beset with lightning during the length of the night? And that when 

 the diurnal Light Orb arose that next in order the earth did quake. 

 I thought, presumably, now some one of you two brothers has been 

 destroyed." Now at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" said, "Oh, my 

 grandmother, now that matter which had been unsettled here on 

 earth is past. So then I will only tell thee that which has befallen 

 us both. It is true that, very nearly, one of us had been killed. So 

 then that has now gone by. There is now nothing wrong, and also 

 we are both alive. Now then thou hast accomplished thy duty here 

 below on the earth present here. So then thou wilt now depart 

 again (go home). Thou shalt again go there to the place whence 

 thou didst come. And that thou, personally, wilt have just the 

 same body of flesh when thou arrivest again at the place whence 

 thou didst depart as thou hadst then. And next in order thou wilt 

 direct thyself straight to the place where thou didst acquire thought 

 (reason). So then at the end of 10 days, then thou must watch 

 thence, when we two will again return there, if it so be that it will be 

 possible that my brother and I shall not again disagree." Now 

 again he spoke and said, "Now, then, thou shalt be prepared; soon 

 now I will be ready." Now at that time he went out and he got 

 red willows, and he then scraped off the bark from them, and at that 

 time he threw the bark on the fire, and then he said, "Oh, my Grand- 

 mother, now hereon cast thy body. Now thou shalt take up thy 

 return journey. And so when I again arriv^e at the place thou shalt 

 be there, and there, as to that, I will make that on which the earth 

 here present will continue to live. So then thou and they will aid 

 one another, and it shall be that the fresh water shall be in the habit 

 of coming from above. Then at all times the earth here present 

 will continue to be new." 



Verily, at this time, she cast herself thereon, and then as far as 

 concerned her, she flew upward (on the smoke) . 



Now at that tune De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "You two who were 

 the first to come to life are seeing that she of the Ancient Bod.y has 

 now departed for home. So then that is established which took 

 place as you two saw it come to pass, and that only will be still possible 

 on the earth, that only the Word and also only the Mind will be able 

 to go on high, and next to that native tobacco shall one cast usually 



