A torch is taken from the fire and passed around to light the cigarettes. The cane he ceremoniously waves over the fire or merely holds in his hand as the rites are in progress. Each worshiper takes four puffs from his cigarette and lays it away. Four is the key number to the peyote ceremony. There are four winds and above them is God.
Every animal has four limbs.
The fireman straws the fire with cedar leaves, which emit a pleasant odor. Then the leader ceremoniously places a large peyote button on the half-moon altar, and the setting is complete. The leader offers a prayer. All prayers are to some Supreme Being, but individual Indians have different names for Him. Others to the Great Spirit.