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And so now the spring season will come upon us. ' And it shall con- 

 tinue thus, moreover, so long as the earth shall stand, that it shall be 

 customary when the Spring season arrives for the human beings to 

 name him first, who came from the earth beneath. And it shall be 

 customary for them to say, 'Now, the Warm Wind of Spring has 

 descended — the Spring Wind. ' And, verih^, they shall never forget, 

 indeed, each several time it arrives — the interchange on the earth — 

 the line of demarcation between the snowtime and the summertime, 

 for Daga'e°'da' shall continue to change the prospective days and the 

 prospective nights of the future time. Now, you men must start to 

 accompanj^ a part of the way homeward those who have been visiting 

 us for so many days. But before they got started she resumed her 

 discourse, saying, "Now I will tell you who are human beings of the 

 earth that it is even I whom you call the 'Nocturnal Light-Orb' (the 

 Moon). And He it is whom you and your ancestors have called 

 De'hae°'hyawa"gi', and sometimes Hawefmi'yo' (the Master or 

 Ruler), who has commissioned me. And this is what He has com- 

 missioned me to do: When it becomes dark on the earth, then it is I 

 who shall cause it to be measurably fight and to be warm on the 

 earth, so that it become not too cold nor too dark; so that all the 

 things that should grow, may grow unharmed on the earth, and also 

 all those things on which you, human beings, live, dwelling as you 

 do on the earth beneath. Until the time that the earth shall stand 

 no more He has commissioned me to act and to do my duty. It is 

 thus with us all. He has commissioned us only for the time during 

 which the earth beneath shall stand, or endiu-e. Moreover, I will 

 now impart to you the following information, so that you on'gwe' 

 (human beings), living on the earth, shall know that they who abide 

 here in this place are, as you Icuow, those whom you call 'Hadi- 

 weiinoda'dye's,' (They Whose Voices Stand out from place to place), 

 the Thunderers; and so that you shall know that He who established 

 this world is One whom you call, De'hae°'hyawa"gi' and also 'Haweii- 

 ni'yo', or the Ruler, or the Disposer. 



"It was He who decreed that these men shall customarily appear 

 to the lower world from a certain direction, and that is, from the west, 

 and that they shall move in the direction of the east. 



"And so let this be a sign to you who dwell on the lower earth, that 

 when it so comes to pass that these Men of Thunder shall come from the 

 east, you shall know at once its meaning, and shall say one to another, 

 'Now, it seems that the time is coming near at hand in the whicli 

 He wiU take to pieces the earth as it stands.' Verily, such is the 

 strict manner in which He has commissioned us, charging us with 

 definite duties. It is well known that the diurnal Light Orb (the 

 Sun) customarily comes from one certain direction; in like manner, 

 it is also true of me, for I too must appear to the lower world from 



