The purpose of the Ḳi´-noⁿ ceremony is to prepare the Xo´-ḳa who represents the child to be named to approach in the prescribed manner the house wherein sit the Noⁿ´-hoⁿ-zhiⁿ-ga of the Wa´-ṭse-ṭsi and the Ṭsi´-zhu gentes, the first representing the life-giving power of water and the latter the life-giving power of the sun whose abode is in the great blue sky. The Xo´-ḳa is to come to the sacred house as a suppliant for a full and complete life, uninterrupted by diseases or accidents, and for an endless line of descendants. The ceremonial approach of the Xo´-ḳa to the sacred house is called Ṭsi Ṭa´-p̣e (Ṭsi, house; Ṭa´-p̣e, approach), as to a place of refuge. [Illustration: FIG. 1.—Diagram showing places of gentes in the lodge. 1. Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge; 2. Wa-ṭse-tsi Wa-shta-ge; 3. Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-noⁿ; 4. Hoⁿ´-ga A-hiu-ṭoⁿ; 5. Mi-k’iⁿ´ Wa-noⁿ; 6. Wa-ça´-be; 7. Tho´-xe; 8. O´poⁿ; 9. Ho´ I-ni-ḳa-shi-ga; 10. Wa-zha´-zhe çka; 11. Ṭa´ I-ni-ḳa-shi-ga; 12. Iⁿ-gthoⁿ´-ga; 13. Sho´-ḳa] At the close of the Ḳi´-noⁿ ceremony the Xo´-ḳa wraps about his body a buffalo robe, hair outside, and thus clothed in his sacerdotal attire he goes out of his own house to make his processional approach to the sacred house, following his Sho´-ḳa who precedes him in the march. After the manner of all suppliants who approach Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da, the Xo´-ḳa carries with him a little pipe with which to make a smoke offering to that mysterious power that controls all life. The Xo´-ḳa and the Sho´-ḳa, on their solemn approach to the House of Mystery, keep a certain distance apart. When they have gone some 40 or 50 paces they make a pause and the Xo´-ḳa sings the following song, after which he recites the first section of the wi´-gi-e called Wa´-çi-thu-çe Wi´-gi-e (Footstep Wi´-gi-e). The song precedes each of the four sections of the wi´-gi-e: FOOTSTEP SONG AND WI´-GI-E Wa-ṭse wiⁿ u-tha-ḳi-oⁿ stse, Wa-ṭse wiⁿ u-tha-ḳi-oⁿ stse he Wa-ṭse wiⁿ u-tha-ḳ-oⁿ stse, E the he wi-ṭa doⁿ u-tha-ḳi-oⁿ stse he, Wa-ṭse wiⁿ u-tha-ḳi-oⁿ stse. WI´-GI-E 1 1. Toward what shall the little ones take their footsteps? they asked of one another. 2. It is the Male Star (the sun) who sitteth in the heavens, 3. Toward which the little ones shall take their footsteps 4. When the little ones take their footsteps toward the Male Star, 5. They shall always live to see old age, O, younger brothers, they said to one another. 2 6. Toward what shall the little ones take their footsteps? they asked of one another. 7. It is the Female Star (the moon) who sitteth in the heavens, 8. Toward which the little ones shall take their footsteps. 9. When the little ones take their footsteps toward the Female Star, 10. They shall always live to see old age, O, younger brothers, they said to one another. 3