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shalt continue to have a function. Thou shalt have less power 

 to give light."' Thus then she completed her arrangements for sup- 

 plying herself with light. Now, assuredly, she had made fast the 

 sun for herself, and also the moon. She imposed on them the 

 duty of furnishing her with light for their part. Vei-ily, indeed, it 

 was the head of her girl child who was dead that she used to make 

 the moon, but Jier bod_y she made into the sun. They were to be 

 fixed always in one place, and were not to be moving from place 

 to place. Now, besides this, she restricted them to herself and her 

 grandson, saying: "'We two, entirely alone, shall ever be supplied by 

 this light. No other person shall use it, only we two oui'selves." 



When she had now. indeed, finished all of her task, she was sur- 

 prised by the moving of the grasses at the spot whither she had 

 cast the other one of her grandchildren. He was alive: he had 



non'we' ntve'ha're"' tirhno""' wai'ro"': " E"'sateri'hon'take' o" 



llie place sheitlmngup and sbc it said : "Ever thou it duty wilt have too 



to perform 



ni'se". Ka'ro' ni'se' dji' ne"'se'shats'teke'' ne' dji' te""se"shwa- 



^ the Less the where thy power shall be the where thou it shalt cause 



thou. thou effective 



the''te"'."" NeiT wa'iii" wa'eweiennen'ta'ne' dji' ne"io'to"'"hiike' 



'■> to be Now verily she it manner finished wher<' so it will continue 



light." ' of it to he 



dji' te"iakot'shwathe-'te"\ Nen' wti'*hf ialvotera'kwanefittik'to"', 



■i where it her will cause it to be Now verily ' she has .set up it sun for herself, 



light for. 



e"'hnI't4V o'nf, kofiwari'honta'ni' te°iako"shwathe'to"''htlke" na" 



♦^ it moon also, .she her duties gave it will eaitse it to be light that 



one 



ne"'. Ne' .'<e"' wa'"hr ne' oiitatirMl"':!" ne' i:ikiio"iie'io"' 



O the The indeed verilv the her offspring (he she is dead 



that. 



akonoiTdji'' ne' e"'hni'ta'' wa"akon'nia"te", no'k" ne' akoie'ronta' 



i lier head the it moon she tl.sed it to and the her flesh 



make it, 



kanr'kwa" na"' ne". Tiiotko"'' katS'ke"" e"iora"ueri'tako"", ia" 



o it sun that the .\lways it is certain it will be attached. not 



one that. way 



te"kia'tentie'seke". Nefi' tii'hno"" wa"ontathwe"non'nie"- wa"i'ro"': 



y they two will travel about Now and she restricted them she it said : 



habitually. herself 



"Onkeno"'ha"a' te"ionkiat'shwathe"to'""hake\ Iti" o""'ksi" ne' 



10 "Thou 1 only thou I will give light lor us. Nut anyone the 



o'ia" thfiionts'te", ne' o'k' ne' onkeno"'ha'':'i"."" 



11 other <ine will use it, the oulv the thou I only." 



it is 



Nen' wa"hr akwe'ko"' wa'eweienneii'ta'ue" wa"ontie're"" o'k' 



12 ^'ow' verily it all she finished its manner she was surpri.sed only 



of doing 



ka'ti" tetio'honti"sho""'klnvil" dji' non'we" ie'hoiiwaia'ton'tio"' 



lo so then there it grass moves to where the place there she his body threw 



and fro 



ne' shfiia'ta'' ne' roiiwatere"':!', i'on"he". hi" te'hawe""he'io°', 



14 the he one the her grandson, he is Not he has died, 



persi.>n alive. 



