part and reveal the secrets.

A repast is now served to the priests and the boys and others in
the kiva. The food is brought by the wives and sisters of the four
Sai-ā hli-ā to the hatch way and carried in by the Kōk-kō, who have
returned to the kiva. The feast opens with a grace said by the priest
of the Kōk-kō, who immediately after collects upon a piece of Hē-wi
(a certain kind of bread) bits of all the food served. This he rolls
up and places by his side, and at the conclusion of the feast he
carries it to a distance from, the village over the road to the spirit
lake and making a hole in the ground he deposits it as an offering to
the gods. Each child goes to the godfather's house, where his head
and hands are bathed in yucca suds by the mother and sisters of the
godfather, they repeating prayers that the youth may be true to his
vows, &c. The boy then returning to his own home is tested by his
father, who says, "You are no longer ignorant; you are no longer a
little child, but a young man. Were you pleased with the words of
the Kōk-kō? What did the priest tell you?" The boy does not forget
himself and reveal anything that was said, for the terror overhanging
him is too great.

When a youth is selected to personate the Kōk-kō he is instructed in
regard to the decorating of the mask he is to wear. When this is done
he goes at night to the proper kiva and seated between two instructors
he learns the song and prayers. In committing songs and prayers
to memory the novice holds a tiny crystal between his thumb and
forefinger for a while, then he puts it into his mouth, and at
the conclusion of the instruction he swallows it. This insures the
remembrance of the prayers and songs, and he awakes the following
morning with them indelibly impressed upon his mind. The pupil is then