During the month of April, 1916, Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ was summoned to the house of Wa-xthi´-zhi to name his grandson, whose father is a member of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens. Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ promptly responded to the call but Wa-xthi´-zhi became uncertain as to whether or not the ceremonial naming of a child according to the ancient tribal rites would come under the prohibition of the new religion which he had accepted against the practice of the ancient Osage ceremonies. The full ceremony was omitted, but the old man was asked to offer to the mother the choice of two sacred names: Moⁿ-zhoⁿ´, Earth (see p. 70, line 45), and Wa-stse´-e-doⁿ, Good-doctor. The mother, a member of the Iⁿ-gthoⁿ´-ga (Puma) gens, chose for her son, a member of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens, the name Wa-stse´-e-doⁿ. Although the full child-naming ceremony was omitted, Wa-xthi´-zhi gave as fees to Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ a horse, a blanket, and other articles of value, amounting to about one hundred and fifty dollars. The first wi´-gi-e recited in the child-naming ritual given by Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ (pp. 60 to 67) is entitled Wa-zho´-i-ga-the Wi´-gi-e, literally, The Taking of Bodies, and freely translated, The Taking of Life Symbols. In this wi´-gi-e eight gods, in the forms of certain cosmic bodies, are adopted as Life Symbols. Sex is attributed to these gods and goddesses and they are addressed as “grandfather” and “grandmother” because of their great age and mysterious character. The wi´-gi-e is an expression by the ancient Noⁿ´-hoⁿ-zhiⁿ-ga of their longing desire for a tribal life that will be as lasting as that of the gods and goddesses who forever travel in the heavens. These gods and goddesses are paired in this wi´-gi-e as follows: 1. Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da Hoⁿ´-ba doⁿ, God of Day (the Sun), grandfather, 2. Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da Hoⁿ doⁿ, Goddess of Night (the Moon), grandmother. 3. Wa´-ṭse-do-ga, Male Star (the Morning star), grandfather, 4. Wa´-ṭse Mi-ga, Female Star (the Evening star), grandmother. 5. Wa´-ba-ha, Litter (the Dipper), grandfather, 6. Ṭa-p̣a´, Deer-head (the Pleiades), grandmother. 7. Ṭa Tha´-bthiⁿ, Three-deer (the three great stars that form Orion’s Belt), grandfather, 8. Mi-ḳa-ḳ’e u-ḳi-tha-ç’iⁿ (Stars-strung-together) (theta and iota in Orion), grandmother. Xu´-tha-wa-ṭoⁿ-iⁿ of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-noⁿ (Elder Ṭsi´-zhu), a war gens of the Ṭsi´-zhu great tribal division, was asked for the Child-naming Ritual of his gens, he being referred to as one versed in the rituals of the Ṭsi´-zhu war gentes, but he declined to give it in full. With some reluctance he consented to recite the first wi´-gi-e of his ritual which corresponds to and bears the same title as the one given by Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ, a Noⁿ´-hoⁿ-zhiⁿ-ga of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens. (See pp. 60 to 67.) [Illustration: FIG. 3.—Chart of constellation Wa´-ba-ha (Ursa Major)] [Illustration: FIG. 4.—Chart of Ṭa Ṭha´-bthiⁿ, Three Deer (in Orion)]