590 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY Leth. ann. 43 



I spoke, I said, 'Now, we two have arrived; we two have been sent 

 here by your children. Now, then, we come to bring you home 

 with us. Now, then, you shall go hence to the place where dwell 

 your children,' At that time, then, she took up two kinds. I, 

 myself, took up one kind. At that time, then, we two looked at 

 the place where they had grown, and there, then, we saw the ground 

 heaped up; it appeared just as if, as we understood it, one would 

 think, it is where a male human being, perhaps, lies supine inside, 

 and it seemed then that westward lies His head and that eastward 

 lie His feet, and it appeared thus that there His tracks ended only 

 where the ground was heaped up. So, then, that which we took 

 up we bring back with us. So, then, she brings back two things 

 and I brmg back one thing. Now, then, verily, you shall see them, 

 when we two deliver them into j^our midst, the things we two bring 

 back. Now, then, that is all that we two have been able to do in 

 what you have commissioned us hence to do." 



At that time, then, they two delivered them. The two things 

 which she had brought she delivered before the Elder Ones and she 

 said, "It is this which I first took up." Then the Elder Ones said, 

 "That, verily, is what He said is called Corn." Then she said, "Now, 

 again, another thing; this is the second thing that I took up." Now, 

 again, they looked at it and they said, "That, verily. He said is called 

 the Bean." At that time, now, just then, the male human having 

 placed before them what he had and said, "This, verily, is the third 

 thing and which I took up." At that time, then, they, the Elder 

 Ones, said, "That, verily, is what He said is called the Native Squash." 

 At that time, now, he replied and said, "Now, we two have fulfilled 

 all the matters with which you charged us. Now, then, we have 

 finished the narration." At that time, then, they, the Elder Ones, 

 said, "Now, as to that, we have heard of all the good fortune that 

 befell you two, also of what things you two saw. Now, then, we all 

 have seen the aspect of the things you two have brought back. 

 They, verily, are the new things which De'hae"'hiyawa"kho°' has 

 delivered. He intended that we shall live by them. You two, then, 

 were given much trouble m going after these things in the place 

 where they first grew up on this earth. So then, we now begin with 

 you two. We, now, this entire body of people, have made rulable 

 preparations with one voice, and, now, you two must ever know that 

 we have made rulable preparations to greet you two repeatedly with 

 thanksgiving, that now you two have accomplished the task of 

 bringing Our Mothers here; verily, thereon, shall continue to live 

 the adult ones, and also the children. Verily, now, with one voice, 

 we together offer thanksgiving repeatedly, that now He has provided 

 us with provisions. So then, now, we shall come along the path 

 (of ritual) such as it was ordamed for us by Him. So, then, we shall 



