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��INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS

��VOL. I

��From a neighboring spring he takes a gourd of water and carries it to his cornfield (codtnil). Here he sprinkles it to the four corners and in the middle while reciting the prayer for the third time. After he has sown and reapt his crop he becomes very wealthy. He may not go to confession thenceforth and every fifth of May he must go to the hill to repeat his vows. Every fifth year he must repeat the fast and the visit to church.

TRANSLATION

Hail! my Father and my Mother, seated somewhere on your pleasant throne, o'er- spread with drizzly clouds. From there where ye are seated do ye gaze upon us with your countenances, which are your chimales. From your arrows ariseth the cloud from beneath the seven beautiful heavens. We beg your forgiveness. From there did ye speak your seven words and they replied unto you with the same words. They besought you that they might grant us anything which we might crave of them, that they might succor us with anything we might wish upon this your green carpet where mournfully we appear.

We also beg your forgiveness, my spirits. And ye will forgive us. Continually do we cry unto you, my spirits, seated there be- neath the east, the north, the west and the south, where ye do sadly appear.

Likewise do I beseech you that ye grant me leave to give myself unto them who live hereabouts in the beautiful dark hill. They must not refuse me; they must give me whatever I may ask of them. Hereabouts do they dwell beneath the seven beautiful heavens whence ye did reach unto us your hand into which we were gathered when we begged succor.

So with this fragment do we beseech you that no evil may come upon us and that we may not be sickened. W 7 ith all the cold will ye cleanse us; with your arrows, your

��chimales and your plumes whence spring the clouds.

Thus do I give ye to know. Hear me, O my spirits! So be it. May God bless you.

��35. TO GAIN A SWEETHEART

adio's naparmaiMda 1 ci"arwotaho

To God that thou art the intoxicated ' one east* beneath there

napu.a'rgidic napucmai'M ati'cumta'n that thou art formed that thou art intoxicated. We thee beg

ha'gicdara navaric'i'vgo'k' 6hi

pardon which are seven beautiful

tfiwakwo'ta napu.oi'dok kupi'pu.-

sky beneath that thou belongest. That thou

ci'korhi'mia ho'ga na'varica'pmamcim about wilt go that which is well appearing

um.a"rach6k-6't napua'r'gidic kuni 1 .- thy form with that thou art formed. Then !

pucho'hi kupi'.mai'muD'a hoga

desire that thou wilt cause to be intoxicated that

uv nanica'pnoio ica'pmimcim xio'cio woman whom I well see well appearing flower

��nanpuho'kota'rgidic that I with am formed.

��kuha'pi.pwic&'p Then thus also

��ni'ctan ha-'gicdara xio'ciktio"o

I beg pardon Flower Man.

ku'niho'ko.pua'Vgidic navaricap.mamcim Then I with am formed which is well appearing

u - 'par 2 xio'cgi nanpuho'kokotuf

guisache 1 flower that I with am decorated.

kuvi'naptotu'gia hoga uv

Then with me shall behold that woman

nanica'pnoio kuni'pucho'hi na.ina'p-

whom I good see. Then I desire that she with me*

totu'gia kuvia'wa'5 homai

shall behold. Then not more other

��xio'ci'k flower

��ica'pma''cka well shall appear

��mas more

��1 Intoxicated with peyote.


 * Nahua huisalzin, probably Pithecolobium albicans.

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