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ocked, forward and back as she wailed<br />
and Kept. =<br />
Finally. dsi felt the life and the grief<br />
going out,of her..She fainted there at the,<br />
base of the silk-cotton tree. And whi’le she<br />
v.-as in faint, the water spirit spoke to<br />
hek, telling her about the bluf?‘s$$t’on the<br />
v&ite lappa. It was indigo, the spiiit told)<br />
her! and came from the leaves slie had<br />
plucked to cushion h& child. In order for<br />
the blue&o stay, there must be urine and<br />
salt and ashes n-ith indigo. It was neces-<br />
, sary for the baby’s spirit to leave its<br />
body ; otherwise, ASi w&ld not have<br />
added the salt of her tears and the ashes<br />
of her grief; the blue Asi had desired<br />
above all else would not have stayed on<br />
the earth.<br />
Before Asi awakened from this trance,<br />
the spirit rautioned her that now since<br />
the color blui! had come down to earth to<br />
A METHOD FOR STORING t& Y+RN SAMPLES<br />
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stay, it was a sacred duty to guard the<br />
indigo apd that only women too old to<br />
bear childrerl’ should handle the indigo<br />
pots. Asi was to carry her new knowledge<br />
bapk to Foya J
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