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Colonies, Missions and Safe Havens

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« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2007, 10:04:42 pm »




NORTH AMERICA                                                                              continued



"In the centre of the village is an open space, or public square, 150
feet [46 metres] in diameter and circular in form, which is used for
all public games and festivals, shows and exhibitions.  The lodges
around this open space front in, with their doors towards the centre;
and in the middle of this stands an object of great religious
veneration, on account of the importance it has in connection with
the annual religious ceremonies.  This object is in the form of a large
hogshead, some eight or ten feet [2 1/2 or 3 metres] high, made of
planks and hoops, containing within it some of their choicest
mysteries or medicines.  They call it the Big Canoe.......

On the day set apart for the commencement of the ceremonies a
solitary figure is seen approaching the village.

During the deafening din and confusion within the pickets of the
village, the figure discovered on the prairie continued to approach
with a dignified step, and in a right line toward the village, all eyes
were upon him, and he at legth made his appearance within the
pickets, and proceeded toward the centre of the village where all
the chiefs and braves stood ready to receive him, which they did
in a cordial manner by shaking hands, recognizing him as an old
acquaintance, and pronouncing his name, Nu-mohk-muck-a-nah
(the first or only man).  The body of this strange personage, which
was chiefly naked, was painted with white clay, so as to resemble
at a distance a WHITE MAN.  He enters the medicine lodge, and
goes through certain mysterious ceremonies.

During the whole of this day Nu-mohk-muck-a-nah (the first or
only man) travelled through the village, stopping in front of each
man's lodge, and crying until the owner of the lodge came out and
asked who he was, and what was the matter?  To which he replied
by narrating THE SAD CATASTROPHE WHICH HAD HAPPENED ON THE 
EARTH'S SURFACE BY THE OVERFLOWING OF THE WATERS, saying
that "he was the ONLY PERSON SAVED FROM THE UNIVERSAL CALA-
MITY; that he landed his big canoe on a high mountain in the west,
where he now resides; that he has come to open the medicine lodge
which must needs receive a present of an edged tool from the owner
of every wigwam, that it may be sacrificed to the water; "For", he says,
"if this is not done, there will be another flood, and no one will be
saved, as it was with such tools that the big canoe was made"

Having visited every lodge in the village during the day, and having
received such a present from each as a hatchet, a knife, etc, he
places them in the medicine lodge; and, on the last day of the
ceremony, they are thrown into a deep place in the river -
"sacrificed to the Spirit of the Waters"
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