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fruitifying forces and I would not be surprised at all if this song turns out to mean the seeds that annually fall into the soil and seemingly become decomposed and then in time spring up and render the earth verdant with new life. I really think the song was intended to give a very different idea than that entertained by the present non-hen-zhin-ga.  I could get no explanation from this man on the song. The spirit songs of this gens you will see are quite different from those of the Thunder people. In these songs it would appear that they have to do with vegetable life while the Thunder spirit songs have to do with human life and death. All these things are intensely interesting and I am sorry that my work did not begin several years