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to awake with the coming of spring in all her greatness." While 

 it is the duty of the priest of the Sun people to invoke the Sun 

 Father to bring rains, there is a change in administration from 





Fig. 76. — Juan Rey Martinez, ex-Governor and one of the 

 most distinguished theurgists of San Ildefonso. 



October 15 to February 18, when the priest of the Ice people assumes 

 precedence over the priest of the Sun people, and he observes the 

 rising and setting sun. He appeals to the Sun Father so to influence 



