114 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 
upward and over the altar. Many prayers are uttered 
and eight songs are sung. This ceremony is repeated 
each morning after the fifth, throughout the ceremony. 
A messenger is sent out each afternoon with prayer 
offerings to be placed on the various shrines. The 
first day he visits the most distant ones making a 
circuit of many miles; on the three remaining days 
the distances are decreased. On the afternoon of the 
seventh day water is brought by a messenger from a 
distant spring. Before the water is taken a prayer 
stick is set up and the following prayer is uttered: 
Now, then, this here (prayer offerings) I have brought for you. 
With this I have come to fetch you. Hence, being arrayed in this, 
thus rain on our crops! Then will these corn-stalks be growing up by 
that rain; when they mature, we shall be glad over them. Then these 
our animals when they eat will also be happy over it. Then all living 
things will be in good condition. Therefore do we thus go to the trouble 
of assembling. Hence it must be thus. Therefore have pity on us. - 
Now let us go! We shall all go. There let no one keep any one back. 
You all follow me. (Voth, 320.) 
In the early morning of the two last days of the 
ceremony, two snake priests dressed as warriors pass 
four times around each of the kivas and enter them. 
They have in their hands bullroarers and lghtning 
frames. The first are sticks fastened to 2 string which 
when rapidly whirled make a noise like falling rain. 
The lightning frames consist of a series of crossed sticks 
so joined that they may be quickly projected to a 
considerable distance and then rapidly returned. 
These warriors and the messenger who has brought 
the water the day before, go down on the plain a mile 
or two from the village. The messenger first makes 
cloud symbols, deposits a prayer stick and utters a 
prayer at four places some distance apart. When 
he reaches the fourth place the two warriors advance 
toward him, swinging their bullroarers and shooting 
