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have gone; when they two shall have arrived where my path will 

 have ended in a mound of earth thereon they two will see growing 

 a Corn Plant, a Bean Plant, and a native Squash Plant, symbols of 

 your lives; at that time, then, the woman shall stand on the west 

 of them, and then the man shall stand on the east side of them; 

 now, at that time, he shall speak and he shall say, 'Oh, our Mothers, 

 now we two have arrived. We two have been sent here by your chil- 

 dren. Now, then, be it known to you, we come to bring you with us. 

 Now, among our people you, too, will continue to abide. Now, then, 

 verily, we whom He who completed the works of our bodies left 

 together upon the earth, shall commingle together.' 



"At that time, then, the woman shall be the first, she shall take 

 the first that stands growing which is called Corn, and, next, the sec- 

 ond one that stands growing which is called Bean; at that time, 

 then, the man shall take that which stands growing beside his body, 

 which is called Native Squash. So, then, when they two will have 

 taken them up they two shall understand then all as to the mean- 

 ing of the opened earth (the grave). So, then, in reference to that, 

 thus will it ever be with you human beings when one of you shall 

 depart again from this earth. That there, customarily, at that dis- 

 tance shall one's path end, at the place where the ground will be 

 opened. But that, then, in so far as that is concerned, j^ou human 

 beings who come afterwards shall continue keepmg it in good order. 

 Thus, then, too, you, customarily, at that distance, shall reach the 

 end of the path, there where the ground shall be opened for one. 

 The next thing is that you are responsible for carefully preserving 

 it thus in the days that are coming ahead. Indeed, in reference 

 to that, it is not infrequent that it shall continue thus to be, that 

 you shall continue to be separating yourselves, one from another, 

 one will continually be departing from this earth, who will then be 

 in the lead of all those, when they shall exhaust their allotted number 

 of days, will ever continue taking the lead; for, indeed, verily, it 

 is so that you have a different number of days, and in the next 

 place, there are difl^erences in the rapidity with which persons shall 

 depart; and, indeed, thus it is, that youi- file is straight and turned 

 toward the certain place whither _you are going, the place where 

 your days shall end. That, then, is the reason that now the matter 

 rests as to what you will do with you, at the place and time, it is in 

 order, it shall be performed thereby, that you shall make (do) it, 

 in whatsoever place it may be that it shall so happen that there 

 will be a loss out of one of the fii'esides (ohwachira). Now, then, 

 there where you are I now leave (the task) that you shall care 

 for yourselves mutually, you shall amend the matter just as well 

 as you know how to do it, so that it may result in such good, that 

 the minds of as many persons as shall come later, successively, 

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