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in time, whose persons will be spared, should live. Now, then, I, 

 personally, have completed the matter. I have now established all 

 things by which the world of living things shall contLnuo to live, also 

 all that grows thereon, also all the living animals, also all the human 

 beings who are alive, also the Pools of water, also the Four Cere- 

 monies, also the Love of persons, also Peace, also the Days, also the 

 Nights, also the person of our Elder Brother, the Sun (diurnal Orb 

 of Light) that moves about the sky, also your Grandmother, the 

 Moon (nocturnal Orb of Light), also the Sky that is present, also 

 those who habitually come from the west, yoiu- Grandfathers, 

 the Thunderers, who range about above the place whereby pass the 

 clouds, also the Wind that moves about, also the Medicine, these 

 are in number the things over which you are masters, they shall 

 continue ever to aid you, by these your flesh bodies shall ever continue 

 to live, also your minds, both the Day present and the Night present, 

 also the Earth present below, also the Earth present above the visible 

 sky. That, then, I hide from you, the ending of your days; no one, 

 then, shall Icnow the number of his or her days; that, also, I hide 

 from you, the place whither I shall have gone, until, then, custom- 

 arily, one's days will end upon the earth, just then only one shall 

 see the place, the path, whither I shall have gone. So then, in re- 

 gard to myself, there shall nothing ever obstruct itself in the space 

 between us. So then, I myself will have my eyes fixed clearly upon 

 you, in what manner you will ever continue to range about; so then, 

 I myself also will have my eyes fixed on your ways of thinking; in 

 the next place, I myself will hear fully, if one, it may be, will think 

 of me, if, it may be, one shall greet me with thanksgiving, repeatedly 

 if, it may be, that one shall ask something of me. Now, I leave the 

 whole matter. Now, then, you shall have your eyes fixed on the place 

 whither I go." 



Now, at that time, De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' went elsewhere. They 

 kept their eyes fixed on him as he went away. And, as they kept 

 their eyes fixed on him, they lost sight of him as he went from them. 

 Now, at that time, all the people dwelling there marveled at the 

 matter, now, also, they regarded with respect all that He had spoken 

 to them, also, all the things which He had promised them would 

 come to pass. Now, at that time, they, the Elder Men, said, "That 

 presumably, is good that we should attend to this matter, that we 

 should do this in accordance with rulable conventions. That, verily, 

 it so came to pass that now we understood the whole matter in the 

 way He ordered it, now, verily, De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' told it to us. 

 Verily, He said, 'Now, the matter rests with you to give attention 

 to all the things to the end that you shall continue to dwell in 

 peace.' So then, presumably, it will be the first thing for us to do to 

 attempt to choose two young persons who shall follow the path along 



