Post by Okwes on Mar 30, 2008 14:36:58 GMT -5
Formula of the Acorn Feast [1] - Hupa
Whatever has grown any where in the world in time past let it come back
here. The people must eat but little. If one eats but little he shall feel
as if he had eaten much. Birds must not like the food. Let every kind come
back here which used to grow in the world.
Footnotes:
[1] This formula is repeated after the feast is eaten and the people have
gone away. The priest repeats it while standing close over the fire which is
renewed to consume the remains of the feast. See Life and Culture of the
Hupa, pp. 80, 81.
Hupa Texts, by Pliny Earle Goddard; (University of California Publications
in American Archaeology and Ethnology 1:2); [1904] and is now in the public
domain.
Whatever has grown any where in the world in time past let it come back
here. The people must eat but little. If one eats but little he shall feel
as if he had eaten much. Birds must not like the food. Let every kind come
back here which used to grow in the world.
Footnotes:
[1] This formula is repeated after the feast is eaten and the people have
gone away. The priest repeats it while standing close over the fire which is
renewed to consume the remains of the feast. See Life and Culture of the
Hupa, pp. 80, 81.
Hupa Texts, by Pliny Earle Goddard; (University of California Publications
in American Archaeology and Ethnology 1:2); [1904] and is now in the public
domain.