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came to be as they are, alike for meu and gods and even tlie souls of 

 tlie dead ! 



THE RENEWAL OF THE GREAT JOURNEY, AND THE SUNDERING 

 OF THE TRIBES OF MEN. 



There came a time when the people for whom Siweluhsiwa and 

 Siwiluhsitsa had gone to seek the way, could tarry no longer await- 

 ing them; for, hearing the earth rumble, the Twain Beloved and their 

 Warrior-leaders of the Knife summoned the tribes forth to journeyagaiu. 

 Now in these days the people had grown so vast of number that no 

 longer could they journey together; but in great companies they trav- 

 eled, like herds of bison severed when too numerous for the grass of a 

 single plain. The Bearers of the Ice-wands and the Ancient Brother- 

 hood of the Knife led the clans of the Bear, the Crane, the Grouse 

 and others of the People of Winter (yea and in small part others too), 

 through the northernmost valleys, carrying ever in their midst the 

 precious muetone. The Fathers of the People, Keejiers of the seed, 

 and the Ancient Brotherhood of Priests led the clans of the Macaw 

 and other Summer people (and in part others still) through the middle 

 vallej'S, carrying ever in their midst the precious k^detoiic. They, 

 being deliberate and wise, sought rather in the pathway between the 

 northward and the southward for the place of the Middle. 



The Seed-fathers of the Seed-kin, the Keepers of Fire, and the Ancient 

 Brotherhood of Paiyatuma (Ncwe-kwe) led the All-seed clans, the Suu, 

 Badger and other Summer people (not of the Midmost), through the 

 southern valleys, carrying ever in their midst the precious chiietone. 



Leading them all, whether through the northern ways, through the 

 middle ways, or through the southern ways, now here, now there, were 

 the Two Beloved ones, and with them their Warriors of the Knife. 



Now although those who went by the northern way were called the 

 Bear and Crane father-people, yet with them went some of all the clans, 

 as the Parrot-macaws of the Middle, and the Yellow-corn ones of the 

 Southern people. 



And although the People of the Middle way were called the Macaw 

 father-people, yet with them went Bear and Crane people of the north, 

 nevertheless, (a few) and Seed people of the south, also (a few) those 

 of the White Corn. 



And although the people of the southern way were called the All-seed 

 father-people, yet with them went a few of both the northern and the 

 middle ways. And this was well! That even though anyone of these 

 bands might hap to be divided through wildness of the way or stress 

 of war, they nathless might retain, each of them, the seed of all the 

 kin-lines. Moreover, this of itself speedily came to be, through the 

 mingling of the clans from one to another in the strands of marriage. 



And although thus apart the peoples journeyed, descending from 

 the westward the valleys toward north and toward south, like gather- 



