Bat God Cave Transfer Ceremony

The Bat God Cave Transfer Ceremony is a ceremony in 'Card Table Blues,' performed by Hɨndzf:n-nɨ:'ə-dä=mɨñ to take responsibility for a sacred cave from a young boy, Cuhda'tsp.

instruments

 * Garage Door
 * Bat statue
 * Copal pots hanging from rope
 * Quail eggs
 * Bells
 * Path from Garage to Cave
 * Painted ropes
 * Seashells
 * Deerskin twine
 * Cave
 * Copal pots
 * Stalagmite Bell Socket
 * Blood dishes
 * Bat statue
 * Other ceremonial artifacts/decorations
 * Insulating plate
 * Rain shield
 * Hindzf:n-ni:'adaeminy's Equipment
 * Scraping knife
 * Jade prism-tube flowerpot with lattice at the bottom, an orange pot attached to the bottom
 * Jade jaguar paw with corncob claws
 * Malachite perforator
 * Whetstone sockets (for the bat statue)
 * Blood-catching paper
 * Blood plug (made of bone)

verbal component

 * "debt to the earth-maw"
 * "And now I free his blood of its bondage with the mouth of the earth… it is made as mundane as blood can be, fertilizer for the things which root beneath and rise above. Do not consume his essence, but let it flow and make the acorns ruddy. His blood is an offering to wood and not to stone, to the rising of the trees and not the rising of the mountains…"