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branches loaded with blossoms, made them seem like long bowers of 

 flowers, freighted with all manner of fragrance. 



They also saw figures of human beings — on'gwe' — promenading 

 along the paths from place to place, but they realized that their faces 

 were sights (or visions), and so it was not possible for them to hold 

 any conversation with them. 



Farther along in their ramble they came to a village which was 

 inhabited, there being many lodges standing in difl'erent places in the 

 manner of a village of human beings. 



In passing through the village one of the hosts, addressing De'hae- 

 '"hyo'we'"s, said, "In this lodge, standing here apart, thy mother 

 dwells. She was still on the earth below when you and your party 

 departed on this journey; but she started for this country soon after 

 you had departed therefrom. Here, also, dwell your relations — all 

 those who were able to observe the customs of their ancestors dur- 

 ing the time they dwelt on the earth below." 



It was then that they returned to the place where the old woman 

 awaited their return, and on entering the lodge they said to her, "We 

 have now returned from our ramble. " And the old woman answered, 

 "I have quite completed my preparations. And now, moreover, you 

 must start on your journey homeward and the men of the lodge will 

 accompany you a part of the way home. In going home, you must go 

 around by the place where abides the Light Orb (the Sun) that trav- 

 els by day. Let them see him too. And may your dreams foreshadow 

 your safe arrival home. " 



Thereupon they departed from the lodge of the old woman. Not 

 far distant from the home of their liosts there stood a lodge. One of 

 their hosts told De'hae°'hy6'we'"a and his friend that that was the 

 lodge of the Sun. They said, "Thence, he starts to give light to the 

 world beneath this one." 



Having reached the lodge, they entered it and they saw the Sun 

 engaged in cooking chestnut meal mush. And then one of the men of 

 Thunder said, "We are now on our journey, accompanying these 

 human beings a part of their way home. We are taking these men 

 back to the earth below this one. And the reason that we have come 

 around this way is that we desired to have you and them see one 

 another. " 



Then the Master of the lodge raised his voice and said to his visi- 

 tors, "It is I, indeed, who has met with you and it is I whom you 

 habitually call in your ceremonies, 'Ho'sge°'age"dagona', He-the- 

 Great-War-Chief, and our Elder Brother, the Diurnal Orb of Light. 

 And I have just completed my usual preparations for my journey 

 upon which I am about to start. Furthermore, just as soon as you 

 will depart hence, I will start on my journey to make the earth below 

 light and warm again." 



