"Wherever you are, it's your friends who make your world. Each friend represents a world in us & it is by this world that a New World is born. You are a world."

We know in our innermost hearts that love is the strongest force there is; the most powerful emotion. How else can we explain the butterfly-in-the-stomach, shortness of breath feeling when someone special catches our eye and our heart; when tears well up when we learn that a dear friend is leaving? When we experience an emotion as strong as love, or any other positive emotion, we leave a footprint in the place where we felt that emotion. Years later, you can return to that place where something happened, and all those emotions and memories come flooding back like ghosts. This is why, when we walk our path, we should leave good footprints,so that the positive feelings will always be there, for our memory, and for those who follow.

Ten days after the New Moon Ceremony "Atohuna" was held, the reconciliation or "Friends Made" ceremony. The ceremony dealt with relationships between two people of the same or opposite sex. According to Tribes that Slumber, "these relationships were bonds of "eternal friendship in which each person vowed to regard the other as himself as long as they both lived." It was a ceremony that was a pledge of universal fraternal or paternal love. It also "entailed reconciliation between those who had quarreled during the previous year." It symbolized the uniting of the people with the Creator and purification of body and mind. The New Moon Ceremony was said to have been the "most profoundly religious" of all the ceremonies. As with other observances, it also involved the rekindling of the sacred fire.