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some of the children were lost, and it was not Icnown what happened 

 to them, or also whither, perhaps, one went; and now, indeed, the 

 time had become so critical that the elder women (the mothers) 

 severally wept. 



Now at the end of that period they just heard a loud noise that 

 sounded in the direction of the west, and now also the Thunderers 

 sung thence, and now also wind began to blow and it was very strong, 

 and now, then, also it rained and liglitened repeatedly. For three 

 days without change it continued to rain, and then the people became 

 fearful, saying, "Now, verily, presumably something will come to 

 befall the earth." After a while it ceased rammg. It was not long 

 after when they saw a beautiful color, one that they took to be a ray 

 of light, in appearance; it started below and went upward, and at 

 a long distance there again it came down, and tliere it rested upon 

 the earth. There were a few colors of it which they, perhaps, did 

 not know. Never had tliey seen anything like it before. 



Then they said, "Let us question Odendonniha. He, presumably, 

 will be able to tell what kind of thing it is that is the cause that this 

 has come to pass, which we have never seen before, and of which also 

 no one has ever told us that it would happen." 



Then they departed and they did seelc for the person of Oden- 

 donniha, and so then when they saw him in his bark shelter they 

 said, "What does that betoken (know) (of what is it a sign), that 

 thing which starting from below goes upward and far away, it there 

 again takes its course downward and there again rests upon the earth, 

 and wliich also has a fine color?" 



Then Odendonnilia said, "Verily, the reason that that has thus 

 come to pass is that tliis is caused by the fact that we have not 

 fulfilled what De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" has ordained for us. Now, then, 

 I believe that he is somewhere about here, and so, then, I believe that 

 he has returned. Verily that he has promised to come back." 



Then the human beings said, "By all means, then, verily, we shall, 

 perhaps, see him again." 



Not long after that De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" arrived there. They did 

 not know him. Now at that time he said, "I come here for the 

 pm-pose of having you desist from that which has come to you, that 

 ye are at strife one with another. So tlien it will thus come to pass: 

 I will make new the matter; in the first place I will tell you that now 

 there have alighted upon the earth two minds (modes of thought), 

 and also two modes in the lives of human bemgs. Now, verily, ye 

 saw what came to pass; ye disagreed severally in your minds, and all 

 your minds were divided by others; now also you saw that the path 

 which came in the sky has divided itself, and has become a path on 

 the sky; now, then, that signifies and it is a sign that now, beginning 

 here and continuing for the future, it will thus come to pass that 



