PRAYERS OP THE MEDICINE CULT 



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5 Rising a little, have come standing 

 to their sacred place. 

 The song sequence of our fathers 



You have heard. 



You who are our fathers, 

 10 Beast bow priests, 



Your hand leading. 



Our hands following, 



Desiring your medicine. 



Hither we take our roads. 

 15 Do not think to withhold it from 

 us because of something. 



For verily. 



Desiring my fathers' flesh. 



That by which my children may 



fulfill their thoughts, 

 20 To-morrow, throughout a good 



day, 

 A beautiful day. 

 With us your children 

 You will come to evening. 

 25 And when that day shall have 



passed. 

 Anxiously waiting, 

 We shall pass our days. 



He takes the offering, burns it at 

 sitting down, waits for some omen. 



Now this night 

 Our night fathers, 

 30 Our mothers. 



Rising a little have come standing 



to their sacred place. 

 Bringing food 

 Hither with prayers 

 35 We made our road come fortli. 

 Wherever, thinking "Let it be 



here," 

 Our earth mother. 

 We passed on her road. 

 Sitting down on the bare ground, 

 (We came to you,) 

 40 Our ancestors. 



The ones who here used to belong 



to societies. 

 The ones who used to under.stanil 



medicine. 

 You who now have attained tlie 

 far off place of waters; 



yam te'lacinakwi 

 5 ko'w i''}uwaljna Ee'atopa 



yam a-'tatcu 



a-'wan i'piclenan te'na- pi"lan-e 



to' yu"hatiaEanapka. 



lo"na hon a''tatc i'laj3ona 

 10 wc'ma' a-'pi'laci'wan-i 



to"na"wan a'sin e"kwi*kona 



lio"na"wan a'si yil'luEan-a. 



tu"na"wan a'kwan a'ntecemana 



li''lno hon a"'wonaiye. 

 15 el kwa kwa'hoi a'ka i-'yatsuma 

 te'"ameEana 



kes e'leanici 



yam a''tatcu 



a"'wan ci"nan a'ntecemana 



hoin tea' we tse"makwi ya^'kanap- 

 kona'ka 

 20 te'wan ya'ton'e 



yii'ton Eo'kci 



ya'ton tso'^a 



ho'n tcawi'lapa 



ton su'nhaEana'wa 

 25 islfiiu te'wanan a''tuute'kwi 



a'ntsume'na 



hon te'wanan a"'teEan'a. 



a little distance from camp, and 



ma'lu'lja te'linan-e 



hon te'HaE a^'tatc i'lapoua 

 30 hon a''tsit i'lapona 



yam te'lacinakwi 



kD'w i''luwalfna Ee'atopa 



i'"tonaIj;' ho' i^'leana 



Ea'ihok" te'wus a-lja 

 35 hon o'neala kwai"iEanaplfa. 



hoi li''Ja le"hatina 



yam a'witelin tsi'ta 

 hon o'na-e'latena 

 an i'taton i-'tinakna 



40 yam a''laclna-we 



li"lno ti'fean i'lapkona 



a'kwa' yai'yu'ya'n a''tea'kona 



le'hok" Ea'cima te"woEanapkona 



