The Winnebago explain that the exchange of gourd and drum between the leader and his assistant when singing the set songs means that “God gives power to Christ, in Heaven and earth,” just as the leader delegates his authority. The blowing of the leader’s “flute” at the four points of the compass is to announce the birth of Christ to the world, and later it symbolizes the trumpet of the Day of Judgment, when Christ will appear wearing the crown of glory (symbolized by the leader’s otter skin hat, worn at this time).[10] The Bible as an additional piece of peyote paraphernalia probably stems from the Christianism of the Oto, who used it in their meetings, being mentioned also for the Iowa, Omaha and Winnebago. The New Testament, and particularly Revelations, is a favorite among the Rave cultists (Jesse Clay’s followers do not use the Bible)—Crashing Thunder finding in it authority for a hair-cut, and others discovering reasons after the fact for holding their meetings at night. Three Old Testament texts are widely known also: And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. (Exodus 12.8.) And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance forever. (Exodus 12.14.) For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.... Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. (Romans 11.16 and 18.) Various other Biblical references appear in the ceremony. Among the Iowa the leader carries the water himself in the morning to show his humility, and because of Christ’s washing of feet mentioned in the Gospels. The Winnebago equate the physiological action of peyote with Christ’s casting out devils. A Comanche said suffering is caused by one’s sins and lack of faith in peyote, and that point in the night when nausea is commonly severest is called the “Dark Hour, the hour of the Crucifixion.” A Kickapoo leader often cast his prophecies in Biblical language. A Kiowa, again, appeared to have a belief about the first peyote found which parallels the miraculous proliferation of the loaves and the fishes in the Bible. Koshiway compared the Indians to the fishermen on the Sea of Galilee, when Christ said “Peace, be still!” to the angry waves, just as peyote says it to the storm-tossed Indians in this latter-day world. And for the man who lives a good life, the ashes of the fire will open up like the waters of the Red Sea, and he can pass through the fire to the father peyote along the “Peyote Road” on the moon.[11]