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from the hills beyond the plains. With these, as they had been com- 

 manded in olden time by K'yiik'lu, they bnilded the gTeat bower. 

 They helped also the chosen men of the Badger and Water kinties to 

 bring the hemlock trees from the sonthern canyon, and danced, sing- 

 ing gravel}' for the nonce, as these called forth the growth thereof iu 

 sacred smoke of the spaces, and then, as the night fell, laden with ofler- 

 ingsfrom the people, and whitened with the favor of their prayer-meal, 

 they returned whither the Ka'ka and tLie sonls of men ever return, west- 

 ward along the river to the mountains of the Dance of Good and the 

 Waters of the Dead. 



Then came the Sun-priest and the Priests of the House of Houses, 

 with the tabernacles of sacred seed-substances, the nxietone, the 

 k'^ydetone and the chuetone, and with world-terraced bowls of sacred 

 favor (prayer-meal). These, they bore into the plaza in solemn 

 procession, followed by the matrons of the Seed and Water clans, 

 with the trays of new seed and their oiferings of plumed wands to 

 the spaces; and even as today, in every jiarticular, so then the Priest 

 of the Sun and his younger brothers of the House laid out the sacred 

 reclining terrace and roadway of prayer, leading down from it through 

 the middle, and duly placed the sacred things in order u\wn and before 

 it. As today it is done even in the same order, so then the priests took 

 their jilaces at the rear of the terrace and altar of sacred things, and 

 the matrons theirs by their trays of new seed, those of the Seed kins 

 southwardly to the right, those of the Water kins northwardly to the 

 left beside the reclining terrace and down the sacred roadway guided and 

 placed, each in order, by the chosen leaders of the dance, and watched 

 over by the Priests of the Bow. 



Thus, when the singers came and sat them down in the southern 

 side, as today, so then, the father of the people gave the word for begin- 

 ning, and spake the issuing-forth rites. But then, not as now, there 

 were singers only to the south, yea, and dancers only of them, whence 

 the complainings of the people had been voiced. 



As the darkness deepened the master-priest said, "Lo, now! as in 

 the olden time let kindled be a fire, beyond the dancers (otakwe) in 

 front of the bower. Mayhap by its light yet other singers and dancers 

 will come, as in the olden time came Paiyatuma and his people, for 

 the perfection of the corn. If so be, those who murmur will be content 

 with the completeness of our custom." 



Then those whose office it was to keep the shell and fire, generated 

 with their hands the heat thereof, and the youths round about merrily 

 attended them with fuel, and in the brightening light the dance went on. 



THE SENDING OF THE TWAIN PRIESTS OF THE BOW, THAT THEY 

 BESPEAK THE AID OF PAIYATUMA AND HIS FLUTE PEOPLE. 



When the House of the Seven Stars had risen high in the sky, then 

 the fathers summoned before them the two Master-priests of the Bow. 



