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.

PRAYER TO THE ETSETHLE.

"People, you come to see us; you have a house in the heart of the rocks;
you are the chief of them; you are beautiful. Come inside of our houses.
Your feet are white; come into our house! Your legs are white; come into
our house! Your bodies are white; come into our house! Your face is
white; come into our house! Old man, this world is beautiful; the people
look upon you and they are happy. This day let all things be beautiful."

This prayer is repeated many times, merely substituting for old man old
woman, then youth, young girl, boy, then all children. The old man and
woman spoken of are not the first old man and woman in the myth of the
old man and woman of the first world. After the prayer the song-priest
and invalid took seats by the entrance of the lodge. Hasjelti took his
position to the west end and to the north of the line of the Etsethle.
He remained standing while the four slowly raised the right foot
squarely from the ground, then on the toe of the left foot, which motion
shook the rattle. In a short time Hasjelti passed down the line hooting.
He passed around the east end, then returned up the north side to his
former position, and again hooting, resumed the leadership of the
Etsethle, who gave a long shake