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��TEPECANO PRAYERS

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��They will shield us from whatever pestilence may come. For we may not see and in dark- ness we grope, for we are vile and with our filthiness we impede ourselves.

This only do I say unto you. Hear ye me! Ye will pardon me for meddling here in this your court. Here will I place your white cloth on your carpet where ye are formed in all hours. Continually do I implore you. May God bless you.

2. TO COMMENCE THE FIESTA OF THE RAIN

(PERD6N MAYOR)

adio's ino''G inda'o inci'u'c

To God, my Lord, my Lady, my Morning Star.

ati'puhi'mot aptu'i' napimaringo"korak 1 We have come; to be that ye are my manes 1

a - 'moh6van napimarda'darkam ho'-

there that ye are the sitters that-

ga-rictuma'M icto'doc ci"a-r wo'fa is five green east beneath.

a'momo'dor napimivo'pmiGda hoga

There from that ye will lift that

na'varicda'dik'am navarumu"umi 2 naB'- which is health. Which are thy' ceremonial arrows that*

aituda'giuna h6g - a na'pgama'.itwi'cturda thou hither us wilt cleanse that that thou, coming* wilt force away from us

hog'ac'ko'k'dakam aruri'koT umto'

that sickness is vicinity thy*

tvagiwopta a'bi'dor na'puiwu'wacda skies beneath. There from thou wilt select

navarumvo'p-oikaM a'nih6dor naB'ai'- which is thy path. Here from that thou*

tuda'giuna ho'ga navaricxo'pitkam 3

hither us wilt cleanse that which is the coldness 3

1 Translated "Our Fathers and Mothers of the heavens." It is not quite certain whether these are the major divinities, minor divinities or ancestral spirits.

2 The changes in person in this and other prayers are very confusing. Their signification is most puzzling.

��navarumno'v ho'kot na'puho'kot.itka'- which is thy hand with; that thou with it for us*

pkaturda navarum.6ra'dakam napit'6'- wilt constrain which is thy inwardness; that*

vo'rturda hoga navarumhr'Mda

thou for us wilt lengthen that which is thy way

napgamipkitot' ko'hiniD'a hoga navaruma'- which thou also now us wilt cause to tread that which is*

t'vagi.sa-'gio ku'hidi'koo apictunha'gicda thy altar between. Then this with thou me wilt* pardon,

dio's in.o - 'G inda-'o inci'u'k hidi God my Lord, my Lady, my Morning Star, this

��h&maD go''k ba'ik tak-u'gumo'kot one two three fragments with

navaricda'dik-am which is health

��nanitaitumno'i'puctur which I to thee have recited

��navarumni"o'k' kuhi'di ho'madakamo'kot which is thy word. Then this creation with

api'ctunha'gicda porki aniamai'cturda thou me wilt pardon because I not may fulfill

hoga naVarumhi'mda hoga

that which is thy way that

navarumt6voriG hoga napubo.'ima-'c which is thy length that which hither appears

hoga avemicmokor havaricda'dik-am that it very distant and it is health

havaric'i'du'k'am ku.ha'bandor a'niam- and it is treasure. Then with it from I not*

pihoamto'gio'a 4 kuhi'di&ma'dakam.hok'ot anywhere you may see. 4 Then this creation with

adio's in.o - 'G inda - 't inci'u'k.

to God, my Lord, my Lady, my Morning Star.

ha - 'pih6'van napimaringo"koraG

In that place that ye are my manes

amihovaN napimarda'darkam icto'doG 5 there that ye are sitters green'

8 Cold and wind are conceived as health-giving and purifying, heat as synonymous with sickness. 4 Possibly auditory error for -urn-, THEE. 6 The color appropriate to the east.

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