From below (the earth) my corn comes
I walk with you.
From above water young (comes)
I walk with you.
From above vegetation (comes to the earth)
I walk with you.
From below the earth corn pollen comes
I walk with you.
These lines are repeated four times. The first line indicates that corn is
the chief subsistence; the second, that it is necessary to pray to
Hasjelti that the earth may be watered; the third, that the earth must be
embraced by the sun in order to have vegetation; the fourth, that pollen
is essential in all religious ceremonies. The Etsethle signify doubling
the essential things by which names they are known, corn, grain, etc.,
they are the mystic people who dwell in canyon sides unseen. After the
song the invalid with meal basket in hand passed hurriedly down the line
of gods and sprinkled each one with meal, passing it from the right hand
up to the right arm, to the head then down the left arm to the hand,
placing a pinch in the palm of the left hand. The invalid then returned
and stood to the north side of Hasjelti who was to the left of the
song-priest. The theurgist stood facing natan (corn) and offered a prayer
which was repeated by the invalid. Continency must be observed by the
invalid during the nine days ceremonial and for four days thereafter.