Further investigation may tend to confirm the supposition that in any tribe which has mythic names for its members and its social divisions (as among the Osage, Kansa, Quapaw, Omaha, Ponka, Iowa, Oto, Missouri, Tutelo, and Winnebago), or in one which has mythic names only for its members and local or other names for its social divisions (as among the Dakota, Assiniboin, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow), there are now or there have been secret societies or "The Mysteries." FOOTNOTES 1 The sound of this inverted ṵ, between o and u, as well as the sounds of other letters used in this article, except that of the inverted ɥ (which is a sound approximating ch in the German word ich), is to be found on page 206, Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 2 It is probable, however, that the Panɥka (Ponka) man began with the stick at the east, as he must use the right hand and foot first. 3 Meaning uncertain; it may refer to the female or doe. 4 See "Omaha Sociology," §§ 14-16, 19, 28, 33, 34, 36, 56, 143, 248-258, and passim, in Third Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology. 5 The literal rendering of the title is "Growth told. Tsíɔu Peacemaker theirs." This may be translated freely by "Revelations of the elders of the Red Eagle gens." 6 Ɔiñ’ʞa weháʞi¢e, "The first end of the children" or "The beginning of the race." This reckoning was backward. The Ponka have a similar usage: uhañge, _an end_; uhañge pahañga tĕ, _the first end_ or _beginning_. Ádintaú, formed by crasis from a*d*e and intau, may refer to the words of the old men who have handed down these traditions. Tsiká is unintelligible to the younger Osage of the present day. One man told the author that he thought it meant, "O grandfather," being addressed to the principal Wakanʇa. He said that it was substituted for another name of that being. 7 The chorus or refrain at the end of each line is omitted in the free translation, as it would make confusion. If retained, the first four lines would read thus: The first of the race: he really said, O grandfather! He was saying, "Ho, younger brother! the children have no bodies": he really said, O grandfather! "We shall seek bodies for our children": he really said, O grandfather! "Ho, younger brother! you shall attend to it": he really said, O grandfather! 8 Éʞi añká refers to the preceding words, which were those of one of the mythic speakers. He was an ancestor of the Tsíɔu gens. Here he addressed his younger brother. At this time the brothers were destitute of human souls and bodies, though they possessed conscious existence and could talk, as well as move about from place to place. 9 See the lowest horizontal line on the left side of the chart.