272 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
advanced single file with a slow regular step and when within 20 feet 
of the lodge the priest turned and faced Hasjelti and repeated a short 
prayer, when the Etsethle sang. 
SONG OF THE ETSETHLE. 
From below (the earth) my corn comes 
I walk with you. 
From above water young (comes) 
IT walk with you. 
From above vegetation (comes to the earth) 
I walk with you. 
Krom below the earth corn pollen comes 
I walk with you. 
These lines are repeated four times. The first line indicates that corn 
is the chief subsistence; the second, that it is necessary to pray to Has- 
jelti that the earth may be watered; the third, that the earth must be 
embraced by the sun in order to have vegetation; the fourth, that pollen 
is essential in all religious ceremonies. The Etsethle signify doubling 
the essential things by which names they are known, corn, grain, ete., 
they are the mystic people who dwell in canyon sides unseen, After the 
song the invalid with meal basket in hand passed hurriedly down the 
line of gods and sprinkled each one with meal, passing it from the right 
hand up to the right arm, to the head then down the left arm to the 
hand, placing a pinch in the palm of the left hand. The invalid then 
returned and stood to the north side of Hasjelti who was to the left of 
the song-priest. The theurgist stood facing natan (corn) and offered a 
prayer which was repeated by the invalid. Contineney must be ob- 
served by the invalid during the nine days ceremonial and for four days 
thereafter. 
PRAYER TO THE ETSETHLE. 
“People, you come to see us; you have a house in the heart of the 
rocks; you are the chief of them; you are beautiful. Come inside of 
our houses. Your feet are white; come into our house! Your legs are 
white; come into our house! Your bodies are white; come into our 
house! Your face is white; come into our house! Old man, this world 
is beautiful; the people look upon you and they are happy. This day 
let all things be beautiful.” 
This prayer is repeated many times, merely substituting for old man 
old woman, then youth, young girl, boy, then all children. The old 
man and woman spoken of are not the first old man and woman in the 
myth of the old man and woman of the first world. After the prayer 
the song-priest and invalid took seats by the entrance of the lodge. 
Hasjelti took his position to the west end and to the north of the line 
of the Etsethle. He remained standing while the four slowly raised 
