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becomes dark on the earth, then next in order she will overlook again 

 all that I have finished ; and she also shall attend to it so long as it 

 will be dark; so then this shall continue on, and there shall not be 

 in any place any interval; and there shall, too, be no end to it; it 

 shall always continue to be thus for the length of time that all I 

 have completed here will last. So then I now will again depart for 

 home. I have invited my Brother so soon as he sees the large star, 

 the Day-Bringer (the Morning Star), then at once he will start 

 thence and he will arrive in the place where my lodge is. Then will 

 become manifest what he intends to do. I have thought, presum- 

 ably, it would be good that I will specify the matter that I will remove 

 all those things whose bodies he finished; (for) some of them have 

 power to break up my handiwork, and so they will destroy those 

 whose bodies I have finished. So then they will cause no manner of 

 trouble to the minds of those who will be traveling from place to 

 place. Some have such potence that if one will just only see them 

 then that sight will be able to overmatch one magically. So then 

 thej^ will continue ever to remain among the mountains. So then 

 they will continue in this state so long as the earth continues to be; 

 so they will be until the time will be when in the future only will 

 end the durability of my handiwork here spread out. Not before 

 that time will they again be able to leave the earth. 



"So then I will appoint those then with the duty of attending to 

 it, so that at all times the days and also the nights will continue to 

 be new, and all those things too that grow, and also the several 

 streams of water, that they will never fail, grow less in power, and 

 that also they shall wash the earth here present; so then that at all 

 times they (the people) will be contented in mind. So then it will be 

 they who will continue to be able to keep those beings con§ned so 

 that they (the beings) shall not again leave" the earth. And so, too, 

 the human beings will be in the habit of saying, 'Hadiwefinodadie's' 

 ("They, the Thunderers"), and then they will be in the habit of 

 coming from the sun setting; and so there, at the distance where the 

 clouds will be in the habit of passing, above that there will they be in 

 the habit of moving from place to place; so then they will continue 

 to have power, and that, too, will thus continue so long as the earth 

 will continue to be." 



At that time He-Holds-the-Earth-by-his-Hands spoke and said, 

 "All your thoughts (ideas) are good; so then, presumably, they 

 will not long be disturbed when they will hear their voices when 

 they will come, causing the sky to resound." 



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

 and I have completed the matters referring to this earth here. Now 

 then I again return to my home." 



See note on p. 610. 



