Just before dawn he awoke. He was wide awake and was gazing toward the east when the first faint streaks of dawn began to color the horizon. Then suddenly, in the clouds overhanging they sky, a man appeared. He came nearer and nearer.

 Finally he appeared to step out of a cloud upon the toes of Blows Down. Yet Blows Down did not feel any weight. The man then stepped down beside his couch. As his feet touched the ground a blaze of fire issued from the points of contact. The earth seemed to be aflame and a column of smoke ascended skyward.

 Then the man spoke. “My child, arise from your bed of torture. I have adopted you as my son.” He grasped Blows Down by the hand and said, “On you I will bestow my power.” Then, apparently from nowhere he produced a hoop. Holding it in front of Blows Down he told him to look through it. When Blows Down did so he saw all the enemy tribes just as if they were close to him. The spirit man then told Blows Down that he was the Morning Star, that he had pitied him for a long time, and had finally decided to come to him, adopt him, and give him his medicine. It would become, in time, one of the most powerful medicines among the Crow.

Morning Star told Blows Down to make a hoop medicine for himself. Furthermore, he might make three copies of this medicine, but no more than four should eve be in existence among the Crows. He told Blows Down that whenever any enemy war party approached the camp in which he was staying, this medicine would warn him of their coming before their arrival. This medicine would also help Blows Down to see the enemy’s location and strength of their attacking force.

 Finally Morning Star told Blows Down, “If you will pray to me, your people [The Crows] will increase in numbers. Go home now. Upon your arrival have the members of the camp build you four sweat-lodges, each with the opening west toward the rising sun. You enter the last of the four, and while you are inside tell those who are with you of the visit and the instructions which I, the Morning Star have just given you.”