HEWITT] MYTH OF THE EARTH-GRASPER 579 



whoroin one shall find happiness; there, also, is the place where the 

 Four Ceremonies are being continuously performed. Now, the other 

 (path) is that, I believe, for those who have not ceased, who have 

 not forsaken, that which is wrong, the handiwork of my brother 

 who has the evil mind, and that, I think, one will continue to hold, 

 when one has exhausted one's allotted number of days. There, 

 then, too, that one will travel along the path that forks, on this 

 side thereof, and thither one will go and there that one will arrive 

 where stands the lodge of mj^ brother. In that place itself one will 

 see forever that which is ruinous. So then, you human beings who 

 travel about on the earth have a duty to perform, and it shall, then, 

 be through great strivings that you will pass, in order that you shall 

 continue to live on the earth and also in the sky. If you fail in 

 mind you shall perish on the earth, also in the place of ruin. So 

 then, that one who fails in this matter will die twice. So then, now 

 it will continue thus to be, so long as the earth continues to be. 

 Now, we can do nothing to thwart what has thus come to pass. 

 Now, then, I will bestow that whereby you shall continue to live. 

 You will be in the habit of calling that thing medicine. And, the 

 reason that I do so is that now, indeed, there will travel about 

 here over the earth what is called Disease, malign by nature, and 

 faceless. That, then, indeed, has the power to cause the days of 

 some of you, human beings, to end for you; also, it will thus come 

 to pass that no matter at what age one may be it will thus break 

 off my handiwork. Now, he has completed that, my brother is 

 the one who has caused it to be. So, then, that is the reason that 

 I deliver at the side of j'our persons. Medicine,^* that it may in some 

 small way prove to be a preventive; some, also, it shall cause again 

 to go about in peace, that other days will still become theirs. 



"Now, then, you will get one each of all the various kinds of 

 grasses, also of all shrubs, also of all trees, and you shall lay them all 

 hei'e beside me." Now, at that time they truly did thus. Now, 

 the.v collected one each of all the kinds of grasses that grow, also, 

 one each of all the kinds of shrubs that grow, also, one each of all 

 the kinds of trees that grow. Now, at that time, they collected them 

 all together and placed them before De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°', and now 

 they said, "Now we have fulfilled the matter; and this is all that we 

 can personally do. Now we have placed them in front of Thee." 



Now, at that time, De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" arose, and he spoke and 

 said, "Now, then, the matter rests with all, each one. Now, you must 

 pay attention; all of you, verily, know the various kinds and also 

 their several names. That, then, shall come to pass; I will take up 

 one and will hold it up high where all of you will see it, and then I 

 will begin to ask questions. That, then, will come to pass; one will. 



See note on p. 610. 



