Reared Within the Mountains! Lord of the Mountains! Young Man! Chieftain! I have made your sacrifice. I have prepared a smoke for you. My feet restore thou for me. My legs restore thou for me. My body restore thou for me. My mind restore thou for me. My voice restore thou for me. Restore all for me in beauty. Make beautiful all that is before me. Make beautiful all that is behind me. Make beautiful my words. It is done in beauty. It is done in beauty. It is done in beauty. It is done in beauty. DEDICATION OF A NEW HOUSE (_Navaho_) Man (_scattering white cornmeal about the circumference of the room_): May it be delightful, my house; From my head may it be delightful; To my feet may it be delightful; Where I lie may it be delightful; Above me may it be delightful; All around me may it be delightful. (_flinging meal into the fire_) May it be delightful and well, my fire. (_flinging meal up the smoke-hole_) May it be delightful, Sun, my mother’s ancestor, for this gift; May it be delightful as I walk around my house. (_sprinkling meal out the doorway_) May it be delightful, this road of light (the path of the Sun) my mother’s ancestor. Woman (_making meal, offering to the fire, says quietly_): May it be delightful, my fire; May it be delightful for my children; may all be well; May it be delightful with my food and theirs; may all be well; All my possessions well may they be made. All my flocks well may they be made. (That is, may they all be healthy and increase.) PRAYER OF THE FOSTER-PARENT CHANT (_Teton-Sioux_) Great Mystery, you have existed from the first; This sky and this earth you created. Wing flapper (Thunder Bird), you have existed from the first, Your nation is half soldiers and half chiefs, so they say. Lend me a good day; I borrow it. Me, the Indian race, you have uplifted. But now I am in despair; Yet this good boy will renew the life of his people. So, Great Mystery, look upon me; pity me, That the nation may live— Before the face of the North, the nation may live. HOLY SONG (_Dakota_) O ye people, be ye healed; Life anew I bring unto ye. O ye people, be ye healed; Life anew I bring unto ye. Through the Father over all Do I thus. Life anew I bring unto ye. INVOKING THE VISIONS (_Pawnee_) I Holy visions! Hither come, we pray you, come unto us, Bringing with you joy; Come, O come to us, holy visions, Bringing with you joy. II Holy visions! Near are they approaching, near to us here, Bringing with them joy; Nearer still they come—holy visions— Bringing with them joy. III Holy visions! Lo! Before the doorway pause they, waiting, Bearing gifts of joy; Pausing there they wait—holy visions— Bearing gifts of joy. IV