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SECTION 79

"Now another message.

"This will happen.

"You will sing three times and the third time you sing you will step into oyâ?dedion'diade?, the other world. 1 That you go there will be the earnest wish of all who have heard your message."

So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk.


Footnotes

60:1 It was customary for the friends and relatives to address the body of the dead and give expression to one's desires, etc. The soul when it reached the heaven-world would then tell the Great Ruler who would attend to the wishes expressed.


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