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plished. Thou mayst sing to try thy voice." The transformed man 

 began to sing, and Dehaenhyowens and his one remaining friend 

 heard the singing, whicii sounded to them exactly like the voice of 

 approaching thunder, only that the volume was somewhat less, as it 

 seemed to them. They said one to the other, " Now it is known that 

 he, Daga'e"''da', is approaching," and soon their transformed friend 

 reentered the room. 



In a short time thereafter the old woman said to the men of the 

 lodge, now including the newly transformed person : " You shall now 

 start on your journey, and you shall begin to make mellow and moist 

 anew all the things that are growing on the earth beneath. And 

 this, moreover, shall be done. Daga'e""da' shall take the lead. So 

 it shall be he whom they who dwell on the earth below shall name 

 first in the spring of the year. Of course the human being will t-ay, 

 ' Now the warm wind has come down; now the hot .spring wind blows 

 again ; and so now the spring season will come upon us.' They shall 

 never forget, indeed, each time the line of demarcation between the 

 snowtime and the summertime arrives, for Daga'e""da' shall continue 

 to change the days and nights of the future. You men must start to 

 accompany part of the way homeward those who have been visiting 

 us for so many days." 



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 Deaunhyawagon, some- 

 times Hawenniyo (the Master or Ruler), who has commissioned me. 

 And this is what He has commissioned me to do: When it becomes 

 dark on the eai-th it is I who shall cause it to be in some measure 

 light and warm on the earth, so that it become not too cold nor too 

 dark ; so that all the things which should grow may grow unharmed 

 on the earth, including 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 n^ re 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 endure. 

 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 those whom you call Hadiwen- 

 noda'dye's (the Thunderers) ; and so that you shall know that He who 

 established this world is One whom you call Deauiihyawagon and 

 also Hawenniyo (the Ruler or Disposer). It was He who decreed 

 that these men shall customarily come to the lower world from the 

 west and that they shall move toward the east. 



" So let this be a sign to you who dwell on the lower earth that 

 when it comes to pass that these men of Thunder come from the east 



