584 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY Ieth. ann. 43 



come forth out of the earth, which now abide within the earth, and 

 which are proof against offending orenda, and which have tlie power 

 to outmatch the orenda (magic power) of human beings. So, then,, 

 all that I have told you shall thus come to pass, (since) I believe that 

 he will be able to seduce the minds of all human beings; verily, it is 

 my brother who will do this thus, and then all will become spoiled, 

 will become destitute on the earth, and also all that it contains, 

 and also the way in which human beings live, he will spoil everything, 

 even to the mind, will be corrupt. Now, then, I will depart home again . 

 So, then, all the things which I have ordained shall continue to remain 

 here. They belong to you. So then, I will now fix my path on the 

 earth, so, then, in the place where my path will have ended there, 

 in that place, you shall find Corn and Beans, and, next to these, 

 native Squashes. So then, when you find these and, also, when they 

 shall mature, you must care well for them; do not waste them; 

 those things, indeed, are sufficiently able to care for you and your 

 posterity in the future. So then, thus you shall do when j^ou shall 

 find them. You shall take suitable care in dividing them up into 

 portions, and each family (ohwachira) of the several existing fam- 

 ilies (ohwachu-a) shall share alike. So then it is these Three Sisters, 

 and, verily, you shall continue to live upon corn, also upon beans, 

 also upon native squashes. So then, you shall continue to do thus, 

 that is, you shall continue to say, 'Oh, our mothers,' and the reason 

 that you shall thus continue to say, is that, indeed, they will all care 

 for you to the end that your breath shall continue to be strong, and, 

 next, that you shall possess physical strength, and, also, that your 

 minds shall be normal, and, in the next place, that the children shall 

 continue to make use thereof, so that they shall have normally strong 

 breathing powers, while they continue to grow imtil they grow up 

 and then will have normal physical strength, also normal minds; 

 so then, our Mothers on the earth, will attend to all these on equal 

 terms; from that source comes it that you continue to grow up 

 rightly. In this respect it is like your Mother, Awenhaniyondah ; it 

 is from that source that it came that your lives rightly continue to 

 grow, also the corn, also the beans, also the native squashes, your 

 Mothers; thence will it continue to come that you will continue 

 growing. So then, it will thus come to pass that I will fix my path. 

 Such a path, then, shall contmue to be the path followed by human 

 beings. So then, they shall follow my path. The first shall be that 

 you shall choose two persons whose lives shall be new (young) ; they 

 two will have grown to that point, where he will just have begun to 

 change his voice, having just grown to maturity; and she also shall 

 have grown to that point when she has just commenced to deny 

 herself certain things, having newly arrived at maturity. So then, 

 you shall commission them to go there to the place whither I will 



