THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE ^J 



And you did give us great joy because we performed this ceremony 

 For you did think that Ganeo' should be celebrated upon the earth 



for thine own self. 

 Thus did we fulfil your desires, Oh you who were born of Earth, 



yet live in the sky! 

 Now on the next day Gagandot was played. 

 Truly we did fulfil your desires, 



Oh you who were born of Earth, you who live in the sky ! 

 You did see all that was done. 



Oh you who were born of Earth, you who live in the sky ! 

 In the beginning you thought that you would lay this sacred tobacco 



by man's side 

 That men should have an incense with which to send his words up 



to the sky. 

 With which to lift his words when the year ended. 

 Truly we have fulfilled your desires and here we have that basket 



of sacred tobacco. 

 Oh you who were born of Earth, you who dwell in the sky ! 

 [Throws tobacco on the flames.] 

 So now the smoke arises ! 

 Oh inhale the incense as you listen ! 



For now do we commence to speak of what you have created. 

 In the beginning you thought that there should be a world 

 Upon which men beings should travel 

 That you might say, " They are my descendants." 

 Now there is a shaft that reaches up to you, Ganeowi, the sacred 



song of the morning it is. 

 Now of your descendants as many as remain are gathered here. 

 Now you thought that there should be two sexes of men-beings, 

 That one should be the male and one should be the female, 

 And the function of the female should be the rearing of children. 

 Truly the females are fulfilling the design of their creation 

 For in their arms we see their children. 

 Truly it is in progress what you planned for them. 

 Now the smoke arises ! 

 So now inhale this sacred incense ! 



Now we petition you that this thing should continue so henceforth. 

 And shall continue as long as the earth endures. 

 Now you thought that there should be a world 

 Upon which grasses of dififerent kinds should grow 



