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PRAYERS OF THE MEDICINE CULT 



793 



30 We held one another fast. 



With prayer meal, 



With riches, 



With sheD, 



With these we hold one another 

 fast. 

 35 The ones who are our fathers, 



Life-giving priests, 



Will hold our child. 



Our child who has been bewitched 



Because the heart of someone be- 

 came angry. 

 40 Our fathers, 



Life-giving priests, 



Beast priests. 



With your hands. 



With your breath, 

 45 Hold him fast. 



The power of the two hearted one. 



The one who has bewitched our 

 child, 



The foolish one. 



His power 21 they will cause to 

 stand out 



In the daylight of our sun father. 



Then our child's breath will be- 

 come well. 



His spirit will become well. 



Desiring this 



With prayer meal, 

 55 With shell, 



We have held one another fast. 



Taking his prayer meal, 



You wiU make your road go out.^- 

 60 Yonder, with prayers, you will di- 

 rect your road. 



Somewhere on your earth mother, 



Your fathers, 



The divine ones, 



You wOI pass on their roads. 



30 hons i''wiyafena-isu'meEalja, 

 ha'lawo'tinane 

 u'tenan-e 

 lo'"o 

 hen a'Ifa l''wiyatena-tsu'meEalfa. 



35 ho"na'wan ie'apEunan-e 



hon a"'tatc i'lapona 



o'nayanalj' a''ciwani 



hoi tcu'wa kwa'hol a'jja i'ljcn 

 i''samutina 



ho"nawan le'apEuna a'natsuma- 

 'kowa 

 40 hon a-'tatc i'lajaona 



o'na' ya'nalf' a''ciwan'i 



wema' a''ciwani 



yam a'sin a'lja 



yam ya'nhakunan a'jfii 

 45 ya'tena tsu'meSa 



ho} tcu'wa kwil i'lfe'na 



ho"nan le'apEunan a'natsum'a'- 

 kowa 



yu"ya'nam'e an sa'wanika 



yam ya'tolfa ta'tcu 

 50 an te'Eohanankwi lu'wanakwai"- 

 iEana 



ho"na'wan te'apEunan an ya'nha- 

 kunan i-'EokcuEiina. 



an tse"makwi i''KokcuEan'a. 



lu'lfii a'ntecemana 



ha'lawo'tinan a'ka 

 55 lo-' a'lfii 



hon i-'wiyalena-tsu'maEalfa 



lulf' an ha'lawo-tinan i'leana 



o'neala kwai"iEana. 



le'hok" te'wus a'lfa, 

 60 Ion o'neal a-'Eiina 



hoi yam a-'witelin tsi'tana 



yam a"'tatcu 



Ea'pin a''ho'i 



ton a-'wona-e'laten-a 



*' Sawanikli, weapons, also, abstractly, power. There is a double meaning to these lines. The shaman 

 will actually remove from the patient's body foreign matter which the witch has injected, and which is the 

 direct cause of the sictness. Also, by revealing the means the witch has employed, he strips him of his 

 power. For this reason torture formerly was used to extract confessions from those suspected of witchcraft. 

 If a witch once reveals the source of his power he becomes helpless. Any prayer or ritual loses its potency 

 when it is told, the power passing to the new owner. See pp. 49.3-494. 



" The prayer meal which the medicine man receives is ollered to the spirits at a point east of the village. 



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