PRAYEKS AND CHANTS 



695 



70 With eagle's thin cloud wing, 



And with the striped cloud wings 



And massed cloud tails 



Of all the birds of summer, 



With these four times wrapping 

 our plume wands, 

 75 We gave them human form. 



With the flesh of our grandfather, 



Giant jucca 



Even a roughly made cord, 



Even a dirty cord, 

 SO With this four times encircling the 

 plume wands 



We tied it about their bodies; 



With water-bringing hanging 

 feathers. 



We made them into living beings. 



With the flesh of our two mothers. 



Black paint woman, 

 85 Clay woman, 



We clothed our plume wands with 

 flesh; 



Giving them flesh, we gave them 

 human form. 

 90 Then our two fathers. 



The ones who hold the high places,' 



Wrapping themselves in their elder 

 brothers' plume wands, 



Their elder brothers' prayer feath- 

 ers. 



Their elder brothers' shell beads, 

 95 They became living beings; 



Holding all their world. 



Holding all their people fast, 



The two sat down quieth". 



Then while yet a little space re- 

 mained 



Ere our sun father 



Went in to sit down at his sacred 

 place. 



Yonder from all directions, 



Our fathers, water birds, 

 105 Pekwin priests. 



By means of their supernatural 

 wisdom 



Made their roads come in.' 



Having brought their roads hither 



Thinking, "Let it be here," 



EaEal an su'lahaiyan la'tan-e 

 70 lalhok" o'lo'iEaialja wj'we 



a''wan ia'pihanan la'tan'e 



a"'wan a'weluyan Eaten'e 



a'k' a"'witela'ma 



te'li^ina a''pa'una 

 75 a''ho' a''ya''Eana 



yam na'n ili te'ona 



ho'vala'ciwu 



k^'li pi"lenapte 



pi"le ci'kanapte 

 80 a'lja a''witela'ma pa'nulap i'kwi- 

 yan te"tci'na 



Eacima la'cowa 



te'lilfinan ho'l ya''Eana'wapa 



yam tsi'tili te"ona 



ha'kwin o'lja 

 85 he'tel o'^fii 



a"'tcian ci"nan a'ka 



alf' a'witela'ma te'likinan ma"ci'- 

 nan i''yante'tcina 



te'lijfinan i-'ciana 



ho'i ya-'Eapa 

 90 hon a-'tcia tatc i'lap a''te'ona 



te'alan i'lon a''tci 



yam a-'papon a''wan te'likinan 

 ap 



yam a-'papon a''wan la'cowan alfii 



yam a'papon a-'wau io^'alja 

 95 a-'tc i''j5a'un ho"i ya-'Jf'ana 

 le- yam u'lo'nan ya'tena 

 le- yam ho'i ya'tena tsumeEana 

 a'tc i'mila'Eupa 

 hon ya'toka tatc ilap a''te'ona 

 100 yam te'laci'nakwi 



i''muna kwa'tojjalun-tekwi 



kiw an'te'we'tcikwi 

 lalhok" le'si te'kwi 

 hon a-'tatc i'lapona 

 105 Ea'cima wo'we pe'kwiw a''ci- 

 wan'i 

 yam a'nikwanan alja 

 o'neala kwai"iEaua 

 o'neal i'Eana 

 hoi li-'la le"hatina 



« The images of the gods of war are carved and set up in the houses of the image makers. See pp. 526, 635. 

 ' The pekwin makes the altar painting in He'iwa kiva. The pekwin is here conceived plurally as repre- 

 sentative of the summer-bringing birds. 



