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again. Now, then, I greet Thee repeatedly with thanksgiving who 

 formed my body and who dwellest in the sky.' 



"Thus shall you be in the habit of doing this again. So then, 

 customarily, when all will have drunk the juice of the fruit, then at 

 that time the Ceremony of the Great Feather Dance shall take place. 

 Customarily, all shall stand up and shall make a circuit of the Fire 

 and shall share in promoting the Ceremony. All shall continue to be 

 happy, thinlving, I am thankful that I am alive in peace. Now again 

 I see the tune and place where He has placed the Ceremony among 

 the ceremonies which He has marked out, that still it is possible that 

 I am able to take part in the Ceremony. Now, then, I greet Thee 

 repeatedly with thanksgiving who dwellest in the sky. Thou hast 

 completed our lives." So, thus you shall again do this again in the 

 future days; and, in the next place, when raspberries begin to ripen 

 then there, again, at that time shall the Ceremony be observed. 



"And, in reference to that, the same thing shall come to pass, and 

 you shall act in the same way. And, when you again see that it has 

 put forth fruit agam, you will get it and collect it, and then, the 

 whole community shall assemble themselves, and then, one shall 

 prepare the juice of this fruit. So then, they two will be exactly the 

 same, and you shall act exactly the same in this ceremony that will 

 start as was done in that for the strawberries." 



Then He said, "Some of those whose fruit will ripen after this, also 

 the mulberry^ will be transferred and they shall be joined with that 

 Ceremony which will take place when they shall gather the Highly 

 Prized Food for the Harvest Festival. 



"So then, customarily, there, when the great dance of the Four 

 Ceremonies will take place, then, customarily, one shall prepare at 

 that time the drink of the juice of the mulberry fruit. So then, cus- 

 tomarily, that will be the first thing, that it make a cuTuit of the 

 assembly, and all must drink of it and all also shall continue to utter 

 repeatedly thanksgi^^ngs. Now, at that time, the Ceremony shall 

 start, and then, that, too, the juice of the fruit shall have been pre- 

 pared and then it wiU continue to be placed in the midst of the 

 assemblj", that then, when they shall continue going about in a 

 circuit, pei'forming the Ceremony, then each individual shall have the 

 right and duty to do it, should one think, 'Let me dip up the liquid 

 and drink it,' it will be possible to do so, and, then, too, as to that, 

 one shall make ridable preparation when one dips up the liquid, that 

 one shall say, then, 'Repeatedly, with thanksgiving, I greet you all. 

 I greet Him who has completed our faculties.' Thus, then, mil you 

 continue to do it over again, in the future. Now, then, I will deliver 

 one more new thing, and then, thereby will it continue to be good, 

 and they (females) will be together mutual assistants,*^ all who habitu- 



Sec note on p. 610. 



