142. Alternative perceptions of these 'words' (logos, systems of order) will be complementary - they will illustrate views from different angles (points of view, tara) so to say. And by doing so they will also illustrate what Ogotemmêli presumably wished to say, viz. how growth always implies aggregation in order to 'gain more ground' and 'move upwards'. This inclusive cosmos is the opposite of modern western science, where alternative views of the universe should not be allowed to exist, should be excluded.

No single person will be able to achieve such great results which a company of men can do. For great achievements support from a great number of people was necessary. A single ant will never build an anthill. It had to be a communal enterprise. More was different.

And then, a company of men must have coordination; from a leader, from instructions, from a map, from a common view. Thus the drum (or similar) could be necessary.

... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer [ui] for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...

Alternatively they could all sing the same song together without any other instrument than their own vocal cords:

"Following Heyerdahl (especially 1952), a mixture of three groups resulted in the Polynesian race of historic times:

1) By 500 A.D. a Caucasian-like people with light skin and red hair left the Peruvian coast on rafts, landing first on Easter Island (cf. the 'long-ears') and continuing from there into the Pacific. 

2) A group of Kwakiutl Indians (of today's British Columbia) was forced to leave their country by a Bella Coola invasion, reaching the Hawaiian Islands (by 1100 A.D.) from where they invaded the Pacific.

 3) The Peruvians and the Northwest Indians met a dark race already living on many of the Pacific Islands, the so-called Menehune … a legendary race of small people who worked at night building fish ponds, dictches, roads, temples .... " (Schuhmacher)

However, a final attempt to create a 4th Word was evidently misguided:

... 'Most ingenious Thoth', said the god and king Thamus, 'one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.' Now that Plato's apprehensions have become fact, there is nothing left of the ancient knowledge except the relics, fragments and allusions that have survived the steep attrition of the ages ...

... Interestingly, since another meaning of shi is 'death', the number 4 is considered unlucky. (For example, the floor numbering in hotels sometimes jumps mysteriously from 3 to 5; it's also considered unlucky to give four of something as a present.) ...

Nowadays they are draining all the remaining ground water sources, without bothering about the refilling. They have no longer that kind of ancient insight.

The name Thamus is presumably the same as that for the (dark) river Thames, I guess.

"Hawaiians reserve the term Menehune for bands of supernatural, night-working artisans of very small height who specializes in stonework and live a simple life in the mountainous interiors of the islands, especially of Kauai." (Luomala)