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^[[ [[?]] July 26, 1921]]

[[preprinted]] 
ST. MARK'S IN-THE-BOUWERIE
234 EAST ELEVENTH
NEW YORK CITY

WILLIAM NORMAN GUTHRIE - RECTOR

[[image - seal with a griffin, "ECCE AGNUS ECCE LEO"]]

RICHARD MARQUEDANT DOUBS - PASTOR
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Onteora Park,
Tannersville, N.Y.

July 9, 1921.

My dear Miss Fletcher:

My first task this summer is to prepare my version of Hako for the Leaves of the Greater Bible.

I have used Prof. H. B. Alexander's  "The Mystery of Life" but found it essentially unfit for my purpose.  It is not only a "poetization" ,,-- but the change of a Sacrament into a Pageant, and involves a great lowering of the tone.  His conventional verse is serviceable for [[underlined]]hymn times[[/underlined]], but it is extraordinarily below the quality of the crude originals.  My plan is as follows:

I.  [[underlined]]Prologue[[/underlined]]

Purpose of Ritual

1. Adoption and Birth -- essentially from God.
2. Peace by Kinship -- the kinship of the spirit superior to that of the flesh.
3. Group Devotion --   the reinforcing of individual piety in the holy family.
4. The Joy of Communion with God -- the Hako in its season of nature expansion.
5. The Divine Cosmology -- (Tirawa, etc., see change of name).
6. The Mother Mystery -- Mother the representative of Tirawa, the Father.

(In this section I employ all suitable comments of Tahirussawichi -- I weave them into a whole.)

II.  The Sacred Objects [[underlined]]at rest[[/underlined]].

1. The Sky - wing feather stem
2. The Earth - tail feather stem
3. H'atira Mother Corn
4. The breasts of the mother (rattles)
5. The wild cat skin
6. The crotched plum stick
7. The Lodge (its order and form).
8. Father,Symbol of Tirawa

III.  The Twenty Rituals ([[underlined]]each time[[/underlined]]).

1. The Stage directions, so far as possible in Tahirussawichi's words.