This is how ceremonies started among us for the curing of sick people. Long, long ago, the earth was made. Then the One Who Made the Earth also planned for each person to have a piece of land that he could live on and call his own.
Our people were living in one such place, but they didn't like that particular spot. So the
One Who Made the Earth told them to move to a new location, and when they did, they
slept well, and liked it, and lived in a good way. Then two men among them became
sick and grew weaker and weaker day by day. The people didn't do anything for them
because no one knew then about illnesses and how to cure them. The One Who Made
the Earth said, "Why don't you do something for those two men? Why don't you say
some words over them?"
But the people had no knowledge of curing ceremonies. Four men among the people happened to be standing, one to the east, one to the south, one to the west, and one to the north. The One Who Made the Earth spoke to one of these men, telling him,"Everything on earth has power to cause its own kind of sickness, make its own trouble. There is a way to cure all these things."
Now this man understood that knowledge was available. Then those four stood there.
On the first night, other one standing on the east side began to chant a set prayer all by
himself. On the second night the one on the south started to drum and sing lightning
songs. On the third night, the one on the west chanted a set prayer. On the fourth night,
the one on the north began to drum and sing lightning songs.
They did not conceive this pattern in their own minds; it was bestowed upon them by the
One Who Made the Earth. It was as if the knowledge was transmitted to them from
outside. Then the One Who Made the Earth said to these four, "Why don't you go to the
two sick men and say some words over them and make them well?"
So those four went to where the two sick men were and worked over them, and they
were cured. From that time on, we had curing ceremonies and knowledge of the
different kinds of sickness that may be caused by various things. That's the way all
curing ceremonies started.
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