. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . STEVENSON-! THE KNIFE SOCIETY. 105 right. He then left the house, and throwing the food to the cardinalpoints, offered it to the animal Kopishtaia, with a prayer of interces-sion to the cloud i)eople to gather, saying: Kopishtaia! Here is food, come and eat; Kopishtaia, Cougar ofthe North, receive this food; Bear of the West, receive this food;Badger of the South, we offer ycm food, take it and eat; Wolf of theEast, we give you food; Eagle of the Heavens, receive this food; Shrewof the Earth, receive t
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . STEVENSON-! THE KNIFE SOCIETY. 105 right. He then left the house, and throwing the food to the cardinalpoints, offered it to the animal Kopishtaia, with a prayer of interces-sion to the cloud i)eople to gather, saying: Kopishtaia! Here is food, come and eat; Kopishtaia, Cougar ofthe North, receive this food; Bear of the West, receive this food;Badger of the South, we offer ycm food, take it and eat; Wolf of theEast, we give you food; Eagle of the Heavens, receive this food; Shrewof the Earth, receive this food. When you eat, then you will be con-tented, and you will pass over the straight road [referring to the i)ass-ing of the beings of the kopishtaia over the line of meal to enter theimages of themselves]. We pray you to bring to us, and to all peoples,food, good health, and prosperity, and to our animals bring good healthand to our fields large crops; and we pray you to ask the cloud peopleto come to water the earth. Upon returning to the ceremonial chamber, the honaaite, standingb
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