Pascual Coña, a Mapuche Cacique, describes the ceremony: "The principal Cacique kills two steer, four sheep, a horse and a pig (...) Each participant in the hosting community kills an animal (...) Then he yells: Oooo!, and sticks his fingers in the container of blood, spraying some while saying: 'Here you are father, blue sky, crusher of rivers (...) you have raised us; (...) give us abundance, all sorts of fruits of the land (...) Be propitious and have compassion, send us once more sun and rain, my lambs ask me, you will say of us, Oooo...!'"
Pascual Coña continues saying: "they agree on practicing on that day the preparatory rites and to plant the sacred tree (rewe) in the place destined to the celebration..."