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PRAYERS OF THE WAR CULT 



671 



I ask for their life-giving breath, 

 85 Their breath of old age, 



Their breath of riches. 



Their breath of waters. 



Their breath of seeds, 



Their breath of fecundity, 

 90 Their breath of power. 



Their breath of strong spirit, 



Their breath of all good fortune of 

 which they are possessed — 



Asking for their breath, 

 95 And into my warm body drawing 

 their breath, 



I shall add to your breath. 



To this end, my children: 



May you be belssed with life. 



The date for starting is set. Any man who wishes to join the party 

 tells the bow priests, and the destination is determined according to 

 the size of the party. During the interval offerings are made by the 

 bow priests at the various shrines refeiTed to in the preceding prayer. 

 The night before they leave all volunteers meet at the ceremonial 

 house of the bow priests. Each man deposits prayer meal, corn 

 pollen, and some precious material- — shell, turquoise, red paint, or 

 iridescent black paint — in each of four corn husks. These are imme- 

 diately taken to four distant shrines, by the elder and younger brother 

 bow priests, the war chief, and the society chief of the bow priesthood. 

 On reaching the shxine the emissary says : 



— ko' ton su'nhakanapka — 



a''wan o'naya'nalja {5i"nan'e 

 85 la'cialfa pi"nan'e 



u'tenan j3i"nane 



Kii'cima pi"nan-e 



lio'waconan pi"nan'e 



lie'apEunan pi"nan-e 

 90 a-'wan sa'wani^ii pi"nan-e 



tse"makwin tsu'me pi"nan'e 



kwa'hol te'mla pi"nan i'lap a''te'ona 



pi"nan yai'ncemana 

 yam te'hul Ij'a'lnakwi 

 95 pi"nan a'lito'na 



to"na'wan ho' pi"nan te'li'una 



te'wuna' hom tca'we 



to' te'Eohanan ya'niktcia'tu. 



How are you this evening? 



(He answers himself, speaking in the 



person of the god:) 

 Happy. Have you come? Sit down. 

 Now, indeed, you have passed us on 



our roads. 

 5 Indeed, words not too long your 



words will be. 

 If you let us know what they are. 



Always we shall remember them. 



Is it not so? 



The man: Indeed it is so. 

 10 As you know. 



To all your different abiding places 



I have gone about. 



With words of taking our road into 

 the enemy's country. 

 15 To-morrow upon that 



The sun wll arise. 



The god: Is that so? 



That must not be. 



We can not part with you. 



— Ee'tsanici" Jonc a"'wia- i-'linaEa 

 ma' la'Kamante 



lo'na ?o' a''wona-e'lateka 

 5 i'me' kwa'tik pe'na te'yvi'lanam-e 

 pe'nan te'akan-a 

 te'wuna' u"son ho"na to ai'yu'- 



ya-Kapa 

 u'son ai'yu'ya-na 

 hon te'wanan a^'teEiina hatci' — 



— ma'i-'na mi'lte 



10 e'pac le'hok" i'naEw an u'lo'iiakwi 



o'neal a-'Eana'ka 



pe'naw akii 



li'lno ton ti'na-te'mla 



ho* a'luljii. 

 15 te'wan yii'ton'e 



u"son a'Jfa ya'to kwai"in'a. — 



— haiyi' 



kwa le'sna te'acukwa 



torn hon i'tcemana-we — 



