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they were pregnant or not. She was to show herself a certain number 
of times, and by keeping count they might know what time the child 
would be born. She said that when she made her appearance the 
parents of the’ young child should turn its face toward her, implying 
a prayer, and asking her that the child might grow as fast as she did. 
By keeping track of the days and the months and the seasons they 
could foretell what things were about to happen. After the woman 
had given all these instructions to the women, telling them how to make 
their offerings to her and to the stars and other heavenly bodies, and 
all the important supernatural beings of the earth, she told the women 
that she had all their powers and they were to know their conditions 
at all times, through her. She then told the women she would be seen 
after the sun had gone down, then she disappeared. Late that evening 
after the sun had gone down, they saw her in the sky, and she had be- 
come the Moon. 
Now, the man told the men that they, in bringing their game from 
the hunt, must offer to the moon, to the stars, and other heavenly 
bodies and to the important supernatural beings on the earth. After 
he had told them thow to use all the other things he said he would have 
to leave them and become something else. He had told them all the 
things they were to have, to use and to do, that there was a place for 
him to go and that he was about to go to that place. He told them that 
when the should go to his place he would show himself early in the 
morning, before daylight, and if, at that time, people should take their 
children to the nearest flowing water and put them in the water and 
bathe them (but they must drink before bathing them) he might help 
them to grow up and enjoy life. He told them that that place was the 
one at which they would get powers that lhe would give them. He then 
told them that he would sometimes be seen in the early morning as a 
star, and sometimes as a human being, and that his name was to be 
known as the First-Star-seen-after-Darkness-passes-by (Hoseyasidaa). 
