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ere the moruing- came, they with a litter went, singing a quaint and 

 pleasant song, adown the northern plain, bearing their litter. And 

 when they found the K'yiik'lu, lo ! he looked upon them in the star- 

 light and wept; but their father, he who had been the glorious Siwe- 

 luhsiwa, his youngest brother, stood over him and chanted the sooth- 

 ing yet sad dirge-rite, and he, too, wept and bowed his head; but 

 presently he lifted his face and, as a gleeful child, his children joining, 

 cajoled the silent K'yak'lu to sit him down in the great soft litter they 

 did bear for him. 



HOW THE KA'YEMASHI BORE K'YAK LU TO THE COUNCIL OF 



THE GODS. 



Then lifting it on their shoulders, they bore it lightly, singing loudly 

 as they went, to the shores of the deep black lake, where gleamed from 

 the middle the lights of the dead. 



Uprose at this point, the Sahimopia Tem'hlanahna or of all the 

 six regions, led by the leader of them all and taking K'yak'lu on their 

 shoulders, they iu turn bore him out over the water to the magic lad- 

 der of rushes and canes wliich reared itself high out of the water; 

 and K'yak'lu, scattering sacred prayer-meal before him, stepped 

 down the way, slowly, like a blind man, descending a skyhole. No 

 sooner had he taken four steps than the ladder lowered into the deep; 

 and lo ! his light was instant darkened. 



But when the Salamopia of the regions entered the central sit- 

 ting place of the Ka'ka with K'yak'lu, Sliulawitsi lifted his brand on 

 high and swinging it, lighted the fires anew, so that K'yak'lu saw 

 again with fulnes.s of sight and so that they shone on all the gods 

 and soul-beings therein assembled, revealing them. Yea, and through 

 the windows and doorways of all the six chambers eucircliiig, and at 

 each portal, the Salamopia of the region it pertained and led unto 

 took his station. And Pautiwa, and his warriors the bluehorned 

 Saia'hliawe, and the tall Shdalako-kwe, yea, and all the god-priests 

 of the regions six, those who are told of without omission iu the speech 

 of K'yak'lu and in other speeches of our ancient talk, bade K'yak'lu 

 welcome, saying, "Comest thou, son?" "Yea," he replied. "Verily 

 then," said Pautiwa — 



Sit thee down with ns, 



That of much we may tell thee, 



For far tlniii hast wandered 



And changed art become. 



As a woman with children 



Is loved for her power 



Of kee])ing uuhrokeu 



The life-lino of kinsfolk, 



So shalt thou, tirelcs.s hearer, 



Of all sounds with meaning, 



Be cherished amongst us 



