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as your ohwachira (fjimilies) will thus continue, and as long as the 

 light orbs will be present in the sky, and as long as you will habitually 

 hear the voice of your Grandfathers, the Thunderers. 



" Now, then, I will renew it agam, and so I will also supplement the 

 Four Ceremonies which I gave. In this manner, then, at the present 

 time, will you again do it in the days to come. So then, when the 

 season changes, and the spring season starts, then you wUl begin, 

 when you will again see wild strawberries, the small kind, again 

 mature, when it will have put forth berries, so then, thus you will do. 

 Then you shoidd get berries, they shall be gathered, and then, at 

 that time, you, the entire community, the old women, also all the 

 children, who are alive, must be of the number, shall assemble your- 

 selves. So then, when all will be assembled, then a drink shall be 

 made of the berries; and the first thing done will be, that the expressed 

 juice of the berry shall make a circuit of the assembly. So then, 

 you shall choose two persons who shall make the circuit of the assem- 

 bly and who shall divide the juice of the berries into portions (to 

 every one); those whom you shall choose shall be those whose lives 

 are new, one person shall be a male and the other a female. So then, 

 they two shall have grown to that age when he will have just grown 

 up to that point when his voice begins to change (age of puberty), 

 and, in reference to the girl, she will have grown up to that point 

 when she shall have just, for the first time, had to deny herself certain 

 things. «2 



"So then, when they two will divide up the berry juice, you shall 

 use one thing only when you shall dip it up; so then, one shall do thus 

 when one will dip up the juice of the fruit, that one shall hold it, 

 and at that time, one shall speak and say, 'I greet you with thanks- 

 giving repeatedly, all you whom we are in the habit of greeting with 

 thanksgiving. You also we greet repeatedly with thanksgiving, all 

 you of various ranks to whom He has appointed overseeing cluties. 

 Now, then, we greet Thee who dwellest in the sky repeatedly, with 

 thanksgiving, that stOl again we saw that which Thou hast 

 planted for us again bore fruitage. Now, then, I greet Thee repeat- 

 edly with thanksgiving that now again I shall swallow the drmk.' 

 Then, at that time, one shall drink the juice of the fruit. And, it is 

 the duty of each one of you, all, even to the least child, to speak; 

 should it so be that one is not able to speak, then all that is necessary 

 will be that one shall speak specifically, saying, 'I am thankful that 

 still again I shall drink it. I greet repeatedly with thanksgiving Him 

 who has completed our bodies.' It is just the same whether this is 

 all that it is possible for one to do; if it so be that that one is not 

 able to talk, let that one only think repeatedly, saying, 'I am 

 thankful that I am alive in peace. Now, anew, I will drink it 



See note on p. 610. 



