Text adapted from a supplication ceremony of the Omaha Tribe in which a newborn is introduced to the cosmos and set out on its rugged journey stretching over and beyond the four hills of life: infancy, youth, adulthood, and old age.

Malcolm: pow wow drum, vocals
Moira Smiley, Naomi Dalglish, Joshua Kartes, Jeff Fellinger: vocals
N. Scott Robinson: pods

Written for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, Indiana
© 2004 Ooolitic Music BMI