[The Delight Makers by Adolf Bandelier]@TWC D-Link bookThe Delight Makers CHAPTER XVI 34/45
But when many go on the war-path there are always some of us with them in order that the Shiuana be in our favour." "Do the Shiuana help the Tehuas also? For the Tehuas are people like ourselves, are they not ?" "They are indeed Zaashtesh, like the Queres.
But I do not know how the Shiuana feel toward them.
Old men who knew told me that the Moshome Tehua prayed to Those Above and around us, and that they call them Ohua. Whether they are the same as ours I cannot tell; but I cannot believe them to be; for the kopishtai who dwell over there must be good to their people, whereas the kopishtai here are good to us.
Only those who hold in their hands the paths of our lives help those who do right and give them what is due, wherever and whoever they be." "How soon shall we go against the Tehuas ?" "The Yaya Chayan and the uishtyaka perhaps alone know that.
As soon as the Hishtanyi has done his work he will call the uuityam, and then those shall go that must.
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