Then he said, “My brother, return to the place of the setting sun. You are now called Naqpote. You will have charge of the dead.”
The Wolf-shade said, “If I go there, and others follow me, we shall not be able to return when we leave this place.”
Manabush again spoke. He said, “Go, Naqpote. Prepare a wigwam for others. Build a large fire that they may be guided to it. When they arrive there must be a wigwam for them.”
Thus Naqpote left the earth. He lives in the land of the shades, in the country of the setting sun, where the earth is cut off.
MANABOZHO AND WEST
Ojibwa
MANABOZHO lived with his grandmother Nokomis, the Earth, on the edge of a wide prairie. The first sound he heard was that of an owl. He quickly climbed down the tree. He ran to Nokomis.
“Noko,” he cried, “I have heard a monido.”
Nokomis said, “What kind of a noise did it make?”