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Kaklo, offering to bear him. Kaklo offers him a prayer stick with 

 lacowa'we of duck feathers. When he offers the prayer stick to rain- 

 bow, who bends down to receive it, the rainbow reflexion becomes fixed 

 on Kiiklo's forehead. So by bending and straightening, rainbow carries 

 Kaklo to the south and sets him down on the northern shore of the 

 sacred lake. As he rests here, after all his misfortunes, he hears from 

 the conversation of the Koyemci all the evils that have befallen his 

 people and is further saddened. 



Duck therefore goes to kohiwalawa and is conducted within by 

 a Salimopiya. Pautiwa questions him and he reports the sad plight 

 of Kaklo. Pautiwa orders duck to entice the Koyemci to the lake, 

 and, when their father recognized Kaklo's shells, to bid him make a 

 raft and assist Kiildo to reach kohiwalawa. 



Duck does as fautiwa bids him. The Koyemci meet their brother, 

 and, singing a dirge-like song, bear him to the lake. The Koyemci 

 may not enter kohiwala'wa (they are not dead), but Kaklo, con- 

 ducted by Salimopiya, enters, scattering meal before him. As he 

 enters Cida'witsi lights his torch, and so Kaklo regains his sight. He 

 is welcomed by all the priests of the masked gods. Pautiwa decrees 

 that since Kaklo was a good Ustener and wise, he should be the 

 keeper of the myths of the koko, and their speaker. There he learns 

 all the customs and rituals of the koko. 



The Salimopiya conduct him out. Hearing the tinkle of his shells, 

 the Koyemci come to meet him m the sunrise. He commands them 

 to carry him to his people so that they can bring them the messages 

 with which he has been intrusted, and instruct them in the rites of 

 the katcinas. 



So, singing, they bring him to the village of the people. Here he is 

 recognized and welcomed with honor. Kaklo brings the people news 

 of their lost children, and recites for them in all the six assembly 

 houses the whole of his TcimEanapka pena'we. Kaklo gives his 

 words (by spirits into the mouth) to four of his listeners who here- 

 after constitute his cult. 



As he and the Koyemci leave, the Salimopiya, fast runners of the 

 koko, biing in the two Anahoho,Kaldo's younger brothers, also sent 

 out ahead of Siwidu'siwa as messengers. They had sought Kaklo 

 in the deserted villages, and findmg him not they smote their faces 

 with their sooty hands. 



As soon as they arrived, they began to visit the housetops, throw- 

 ing down from each baskets and jars, which the Salimopiya destroyed 

 as offerings to the dead and the katcinas. 

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