PRAYERS AND CHANTS 



707 



40 Wlien your springs were at an end, 



Our fathers, 



In their rain-filled room 



Met together. 

 45 The flesh of their mother, cotton 

 woman, 



Four times counting up. 



They gave their day counts human 

 form .3 



Of our two fathers, 



Sayataca, bow priest, 

 50 Molanhaktu, house chief. 



They had need. 



The two passed their fathers on 

 their roads. 



With the flesh of their mother, 

 55 Cotton woman, 



Four times counted up, and given 

 human form. 



With this they took hold of them. 



From where our fathers stay. 



Carrying the day count 

 60 They made their roads go forth. 



To their own houses 



Their roads reached. 



A little later 



65 Carrying their fathers' daj' count 

 With their plume wands fastened 



together, 

 They made their roads go forth. 

 Yonder we took our way. 

 70 At the place called since the first 

 beginning. 

 Aiyayaljii, * 

 Our fathers, 

 Rain makers. 

 Our fathers, 

 76 Priests of the masked gods, 



Where they were all gathered to- 

 gether. 

 We passed them on their roads. 

 Giving them our fathers' plume 

 wands, 



80 Giving them their day count, 

 This many days 



The days of their counting string, 

 An.\iously we have awaited our 

 time. 



40 lio"na-wa Eii'nakwe'na i-'te'tcapa 



hon a-'tatc i'lapona 



yam Ea'cima le'li'tona 



te'mlamo i''yona-e'latena 



yam tsit i'laj) a-'te'ona 

 45 pi'tsem o'ka an ci"nan'e 



a-'witela'ma 



i"'yalenan ho"i ya"'kana. 



hon a-'tcia tact i'lapona 



sai'yataca pi"}aci'wan'i 

 50 mo'lanhakto Kiikwemos-i 



a-tci a'ntecematinaEapa 



yam a'tatcu 



a''tc a''wona-e'lateka. 



yam tsit i'lap a^'te'ona 

 55 pi'tsem o'lf' an ci''nan'e 



a''witela'ma ya'lenan yam ho"i 

 ya' ' Eanapko wa 



a''tcia ya'l^enapka. 



yam a-'tatcu ^'na'a 



ya'lenan i-'leana 

 60 o'neal kwai"iEana 



yam he'co^akwi 



o'neala te"tciEana 



we'tsim te'la'apa 



yam a^'tatcu 

 65 a"'wa yii'lenana 



yam te'likinan a'mpatcu'kowa 



i''teana 



o'neala kwai"iRana 



le'hok" hon a"'wona'Ea. 

 70 kii'Ea tci'mik'alfa 



a-'yaya^ii 

 yam a'tatcu 

 u'wanam'i 

 ho"nawan a^'tatcu 

 75 koEwa-'ciwani 

 te'mla ha'pona'kwi 



hon a''wona-c'latenapl{a. 

 yam a''tatcu 



te'lilfinan a''leana 

 80 ya'lenan a^'leana 

 le'si le'wanane 

 a'wa ya'lenan pi"lan'e 

 a'ntsume'na 

 hon te'wanan a^'tealfa. 



' Kohaito, "setting the day for the gods." The presentation of the day count with its 49 knots theoreti- 

 cally flies the date of the festival. Kohaito may take place at the new moon or the full moon of October. 

 * The place used to be Halon Kwatou. See below. 



