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PRAYERS AND CHANTS 



717 



Leading one by the hand, 



With yet another going before. 



Yes, with all of these, 



Your daylight fathers, 



Your daylight mothers, 



Your children, 



You will pass on their roads. 



And wherever you come to rest 



We shall come to you." 



Thus my father spoke. 



When he had spoken thus, 



He took hold of me. 



Yonder to all the directions 



Presenting me 



He made me arise. 



After he had made me arise 



\A'ith his prayer meal 



His water-filled ladder 



He sprinkled. 



After him sprinkling my prayer meal 



Standing, I came out.] '^ 



Coming out standing 

 Yonder to all directions I looked. 

 I looked to the north, 

 I looked to the west, 

 I looked to the south, 

 I looked to the east. 

 Hither toward Itiwana " I saw four 

 roads going side by side. 



Along the middle road, 



My prayer meal 



Four times I sprinkled before me. 



Then I made the sound of the rain- 

 filled breath of the rain maker priest 

 of the below. 



Taking four steps. 



Four times striding forward, 



Where descends the watery road. 



Of my daylight fathers,'* 



IVIy daylight mothers, 



I stood. 



Then I consecrated ^ the place 



Where my father's watery road de- 

 scends. 



That none of his children might fall 

 from the ladder,*" 



Having still one rung left to go. 



Having still two rungs left to go, 



Having still three rungs left to go. 



Having still four rungs left to go; 



In order that none of his children should 

 fall down 



I consecrated the place where his watery 

 road descends. 



When all this was at an end 



The one who is my father 



On the crown of my head 



Four times sprinkled prayer meal. 



On his watery wood pile *i 



>• The bracketed portion is repeated unchanged, except for two words, for the other 28 springs visited by 

 the A'ciwi during their migrations. In addition to substituting the names of the springs, the different 

 winds are invoked in the following order: West, south, east, above, below, north, west, etc. The springs 

 are visited in the following order which is not that of the ca'lako (seep. T71): 2. te'wuli'ti-wapiKaiale'ana- 

 ESnakwi, the place called water cress in the valley; 3, he'i patcikwi, cliff dwelling: 4, ha'nlipinkakwi, place 

 of stealing; 5, Sana pa'ltokwi.last spring; 6, Ea'na i'tiwakwi, middle spring; 7, to'pa pi'Eaiakwi, the other 

 watercress spring; 8, ko'lowisi Eakwekwi, Kolowisi's home; 9, patsiESnakwi, dripping spring; 10, jjo'co- 

 wakwi, grass bending over; 11, IwEanakwi, ashes spring; 12, to'selima Ea'nakwi, cat tail spring; 13, 

 a'miltolan Ea'iakwi, rainbow spring; 14, Eapkwenakwi, water flowing out (Ojo Caliente); 15, wa'tsita'na- 

 kwi, dog's comer; 16, ca'laEonakwi, ca'lako place; 17, u'hanakwi, snow hanging place; 18, a'lapatsikwi, rock 

 wedge place; 19, a'tsinakwi, pictograph place; 20, pi'-cugaiakwi, poison water weed spring: 21, ga'nula-kwi, 

 mesa wall spring; 22, to'loknanakwi (no translation); 23, ga'-tetcikwi, evil smelling water; 24, o'pumpiakwi, 

 where the sack of flour hangs; 25, a'yayakakwi, bluebird place; 26, ha'lon kwa'tonankwi, where ants go in; 

 27, to'wa ya'lakwi. Corn Mountain (substitute " toward Itiwan'a" for "toward the east"); 28, matasaka 

 hcpatina le'ana Janakwi, the place called matsaka hepatina; 29, Eo'lin gai'akwi e'tsaka hepatinakwi, sul- 

 phur spring, commonly called hepatina. 



6' The middle; i. e., Zuiii. The word in common use is ci'wina'kwi. 



«« The outer ladder. Sayataca still enters through the roof. None of the prayers make any mention of 

 the planting of prayer sticks in the six permanent excavations in the street of the village. In 1927 these 

 were visited in the following order: Tejainawa, o'nawa, pa'ltowa, tsi'a'a'wa, hejapawa, te"witola'na. 

 Their house was in the large plaza. In these excavations Cu'lawitsi, Sa'yatacaand Hu'tutu deposit telikina 

 tsume (strong prayer sticks) to the Uwanami of the six regions. They are colored with the appropriate 

 colors. 



i» lie deposits a double prayer stick just inside the threshold of the door, where every one passes. This 

 was formerly planted under the ladder . Like those placed in the roof, these are colored blue and yellow 

 and are male and female, respectively. 



** That is, die before their time. 



«' £acima tapela is an archaic expression for a load of firewood made by laying short sticks across two 

 long poles. 



