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it has thus come to pass. So then I will now tell it; now, moreover 

 it will be revealed to you, the entire assembly will now learn the 

 matter as it is, and as I see it; now the matter has been fulfilled 

 that now human beings travel about from place to place. And that 

 now, in the next place, they severally go about with their ohwachira 

 (families). So then it is thus, as I see it, that it seems that every- 

 thing is just neglected, that the human beings merely stand around 

 from place to place. So then that is the cause that now, at the 

 present time, I have returned. 



"So then now every one of you must give strict attention. And, 

 indeed, all you who live upon the earth share it equally; in the next 

 place, the matter will continue thus in the future; and then they 

 shall regard it as important; so then I, myself, too will regard as an 

 important matter, what I will leave here on the earth, the 

 Four Ceremonies, or Rituals. You shall continue to keep those 

 customs, and the ceremony shall continue to be observed. So 

 then I now bestow and I now ordain for you that you shall now, 

 then, continue from time to time to assemble yourselves, and it shall 

 begin at this time; and that for which j'ou shall be in the habit of 

 assembling ^yourselves is the sum of the manifold things that grow, 

 upon which you live. So then you shall have the custom that custom- 

 arily the first time that you again see the new fruitage of that upon 

 which j'ou live, you shall then take that which is first seen, which shall 

 be collected and placed in a certain (appointed) place; then you human 

 beings shall, too, assemble yourselves, the whole body of people 

 must assemble. So then when they shall be assembled it shall thus 

 come to pass. So then I ordain for you that you shall, in the first 

 place, mutually rejoice yourselves; in the next place, that you shall 

 mutual!}^ congratulate one another that so many persons do again 

 see the new; and that shall be the first thing that they shall swallow 

 again, that upon which you live; so then when you will have ended 

 mutually congratulating one another, then you shall give thanks to 

 me next in order. So then I leave (establish) the Four Ceremonies, 

 or Ritual Matters, which shall continue before you. I have pat- 

 terned it after the Ceremony as it is being carried on in the place 

 where the Earth, which you call the Sky, is. And it is actually so, 

 that the pleasure with which those on the upper side of the sky 

 rejoice is most important. So then I patterned therefrom because 

 I desired that the ceremonies that will be going on here on earth, 

 on the under side of the sky, shall be the same as those; the cere- 

 monies that shall continue to be carried on here are, then, that which 

 is called the Great Feather (Dance); the next, that which is called 

 the Skin-covered (Drum); the next, that which is called the Chants, 

 and the next, that which is called the Grand Bet, or They Strike 

 Bowls; then, too, these ceremonies. Four hi number, shall be carried 



