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.)
FIG. 3.—Chart of constellation Wa´-ba-ha (Ursa Major)]
FIG. 4.—Chart of Ṭa Ṭha´-bthiⁿ, Three Deer (in Orion)]
In the Shoⁿ´-ge-moⁿ-iⁿ wi´-gi-e (The Taking of Life Symbols), the people of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens implored four gods and four goddesses of the sky for permission to take from them “bodies” for their little ones. The people of the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-noⁿ, in the wi´-gi-e recorded by Xu-thu´-wa-ṭoⁿ-iⁿ, entreated six gods and four goddesses of the sky for permission to take “bodies” from them for their little ones. The following is the order in which the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-noⁿ people approached these ten sky deities, the order in which they paired them according to sex, and the terms of relationship they used in addressing them:
1. Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da Hoⁿ´-ba doⁿ, the God of Day (the Sun), grandfather, 2. Wa-ḳoⁿ´-da Hoⁿ doⁿ, the Goddess of Night (the Moon), grandmother.
3. Mi-ḳa´-ḳ’e Hoⁿ-baⁿ doⁿ, the Day-star (Morning star), grandfather, 4. Mi-ḳa´-ḳ’e Hoⁿ´ doⁿ, the Night-star (Evening star), grandmother.
5. Wa´-ba-ha, Litter, the Dipper (Great Bear), (fig. 3), grandfather, 6. Mi-ḳa´-ḳ’e u-ḳi-tha-ç’iⁿ, Double-star, grandmother.
7. Ṭa-p̣a´, Deer-head, Pleiades, grandfather, 8. Ṭa Tha´-bthiⁿ, Three-deer, the three great stars in Orion’s belt (fig. 4), grandmother.