HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



in part is to nullify and overcome the power of Death and to restore 

 to its normal condition the orenda, or magic power, of the stricken 

 sisterhood of tribes, whether of the father or the mother side. It was 

 taught that the death of even one person weakened the orenda, or 

 magic power, of the people, and so the death of a ruler was a greater 

 blow; and to restore the life of the people the various institutions of 

 the Condoling and Installation Council were devised to thwart the 

 assaults of Death and to repair any injury done by it to the power of 

 the people to live in health and peace. 



In formal but highly redundant ritualistic phrases, the Requicken- 

 ing Address sets out in detail the evils and wounds which befall a 

 stricken people — the calamitous effects of Death's power on the lives 

 and the health and the welfare of the mourning sisterhood of tribes, 

 and it asserts that it counteracts these evils and restores to life the 

 dying people in the person of their newly installed chief. 



It is sometimes delivered in the form of blank verse; but the text 

 from which the following translation was made is not in such form. 



This address is accompanied by fourteen strings of wampum. The 

 orator delivers one of these wampum strings to the mourning side at 

 the conclusion of every material statement. Hence, this address is 

 also called the Fourteen Matters, and also Ne' Adondak'sah (i.e. The 

 Wampum Strings of Requickening). 



This is the form of the address as used by the father sisterhood of 

 tribes — the Three Brothers. But by the subsitution of "Four [origin- 

 ally Two] Brothers" instead of "Three Brothers", and "Fathers" 

 instead of "Offspring" and the terms arising from this relationship, the 

 form is then such as is used by the Mother or Offspring sisterhood 

 of tribes. 



THE REQUICKENING ADDRESS 



The Orator says: "That this present day, such as this day is in 

 kind, He the Finisher of our Faculties, He the Master, He the Sky- 

 Holder [Te'horo D 'hiawa'k'ho n '], has made; He has prepared even the 

 light of this day, such as it is, (I say). 



"Now, moreover, the Three Brothers are following the ceremonial 

 path [of the ritual], such as it was decreed by our grandfathers, upon 

 whom our minds rested in confidence, when they prepared it for us, 

 (I say). 



"It is that, moreover, that brings their persons here, the calamity, 

 so direful, that has stricken thy person, this one [indicating], thou 

 whom I have been wont to hold in my bosom, thou noble one, thou 

 the Four Brothers, (I say). It is that, moreover, this present day, 



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