128 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
This song was sung four different times, but the same words were 
used each time. The meaning of the song is this: 
Woman-having-Powers-in-the-Water, 
Woman-having-Powers-in-the-Water, 
I am the one (you seek), 
I am here in the water. 
As he went near the river he saw in the middle of the water his 
wife standing on the water. She told him to go back home and tell 
his parents to clean their grass-lodge and to purify the room by burn- 
ing sage. She told her husband that he might then return and take 
her home; that-he should tell his parents not to weep when she should 
return, but that they should rejoice at her return to life, and that after 
that he could take her home. So the man started to his home. After 
he arrived he told his mother to clean and purify the lodge; that he 
had found his wife and that he was going back again to get her. He 
told her that neither she nor any of their friends should weep at sight of 
the woman. While his mother was doing this cleaning he went back to 
the river and stayed one more night, and early in the morning he 
heard the woman singing again. He knew that he was to bring his 
wife back to his home. When he heard her sing he went straight to 
her. She came out of the water and he met her. She began to tell her 
husband about her troubles—how she met troubles and how he was 
deceived. ‘That day they went to their home, and Flint-Stone-Man’s 
parents were glad to see his wife back once more. They lived together 
until long afterward. 
After a time Flint-Stone-Man said he was feeling badly for the way 
the old woman had deceived him in making him believe that she was his 
wife. So he said ‘he would become something else. He had some one 
to announce in the village what he was going to do, and to tell them 
to do as they pleased—if they wished to become something else they 
might. After this the Flint-Stone-Man went toward the south. He 
told the people that in time if they should go far enough toward the 
south they would find some flint stone, for he was going in that direc- 
tion. His wife became the Woman-having-Powers-in-the-Water, and 
went into the water. Many of the people in the village became some- 
thing else, such as flint arrows and animals, while some remained as 
human beings. 
