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after they go out, and he takes their words back again. He sits holding 

 Saiyataca's hands as he speaks his long talk and the morning talk and 

 the other talks, and at the end the wo'le inhales from his hands, but 

 Saiyataca does not inhale and so the words go out from him. 



"Saiyataca plants prayer sticks at the different springs each month 

 ■\\'ith the rest of the Ca'lako people. He is the leader of the party. 



"The priests who look after the world pick him out to make the days 

 warm. Each year they pick out some one to look after making the 

 days warm. He is always someone who has a good heart and prays reg- 

 ularly. Each morning before the sun rises he goes out and goes around 

 all the fields and says, ' Now you will go on and produce for my people. 

 They need you. Please hurry and make my people happier.' So he 

 prays during the summer for his people in all the fields. Each morning 

 he prays to the sun and says, 'Our father, sun, let your rays make the 

 days warm so that the crops may grow quickly, and send us your 

 rains, too.' So he prays eveiy morning and eveiy evening, and 

 especially early in the summer and early in the fall when the people 

 fear that the frosts maj' spoil their crops. When he thinks it is going 

 to be frosty, he goes to his wo'le and says to him, 'Father, I have come 

 to ask you what I should do for the cold days. I am afraid of these 

 cold days. Is there anything I can do for it?' The wo'le is glad to 

 see him, and to see that he is mindful of his duties. He teaches him 

 all the things he must do. The wo'le answers him and says, 'Get 

 baked sweet corn which has been ground to fine meal and take it to 

 the fields in the morning before the sun comes up. Go early and wait 

 for the sun to come up, and then place the sweet com in your mouth 

 and blow it through your lips to the sim, praying for wamith that the 

 frost may not kill our corn.' 



"So that is the way he comes to make the days waim. The people 

 think a great deal of Saiyataca. They think of him making the New 

 Year along with Pautiwa. 



"Four days before the Ca'lako come the Saiyataca people go out to 

 White Rocks, and in the evening Cula-witsi lights his fires on Grease 

 Hill. Then they come in and go in to Saiyataca's house. They stay 

 in for days and during that time their wowe stay with them and 

 teach them all the things that they must know. They make prayer 

 sticks and get their masks and clothing ready. 



"Then the day the Ca'lako come in they take their masks out to 

 WTiite Rocks, and dress out there. They come in in the afternoon 

 and go out to the house where they are going to stay for the night. 

 ^^^len he comes in to his father's house he prays as follows:*" 



"'I have been praying for my people that they may have much 

 rain and good crops and that they may be fortunate with their babies 

 and that they may have no misfortunes and no sickness. I have been 



"> nis two chief prayers are given in text on pp. 710, 756. N'evertheless, the following picturesque para- 

 phrase is pre.sented as given. 



