454 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



to me to be overdrawn. Nothing of the kind was learned by me at the 

 sun dance of the Sioux which I noted in 1881, and in any event the re 

 mark would scarcely apply to the medicine-men of the Apache, who 

 have nothing clearly identifiable with the sun dance, and who do not 

 cut, gash, or in any manner mutilate themselves, as did the principal 

 participants in the sun dance, or as was done in still earlier ages by the 

 galli (the priests of Oybele) or the priests of Mexico. 



Herodotus tells us that the priests of Egypt, or rather the doctors, 

 who were at one time identified with them, were separated into classes; 

 some cured the eyes, some the ears, others the head or the belly. Such ^ 

 a differentiation is to be observed among the Apache, Mohave, and 

 other tribes; there are some doctors who enjoy great fame as the bring- 

 ers of rain, some who claim special power over snakes, and some who,, 

 profess~to consult the spirits only, and do not treat the sick except 

 when no other practitioner may be available. Among the, Mohave, the 

 relatives of a dead man will consult one of these spirit-doctors and get 

 him to interview the ghosts who respond to his call and learn from them 

 whether the patient died from ignorance or neglect on the part of the 

 doctor who had charge of the case. If the spirits assert that he did, 

 then the culprit doctor must either nee for his life or throw the onus of 

 the crime upon some witch. This differentiation is not carried so far 

 that a medicine-man, no matter what his class, would decline a large 

 fee. 



The right of sanctuary was conceded to all criminals who sought 

 shelter in the vanquech or temple of Chinigchinich. 



The castration of the galli, or priests of Cybele, is described by 

 Dupuis. 2 



Diego Duran asserts that the Mexican priests &quot;se endiau por medio 

 los mienibros viriles y se hacian mil cosas para volvarse impotentes 

 por no ofender a sus Dioses.&quot; :l 



The hierophants at Athens drank of the hemlock to render them 

 selves impotent, that when they came to the pontificate they might 

 cease to be men. 4 



One class of the Peruvian priests, the Huachus, made auguries from 

 grains of corn or the excrement of animals. 5 



Balboa tells us 5 that the Peruvian priesthood was divided into classes, 

 each with its appropriate functions the Guacos made the idols for the 

 temples, or rather, they made the idols speak; the others were necro 

 mancers and spoke only with the dead; the Huecheoc divined by means 

 of tobacco and coco ; the Caviocac became drunk before they attempted 

 to divine, and after them came the Eumatinguis and the Huachus al 

 ready mentioned. 



1 Padre Boscana, Chinigchinieh. in Robinson s California, p. 261. 



&quot;Origino cle tous les Cnltes, vol. 2, pt. 2, pp. 87. 88. 



3 Diego Dnran, vol. 3, pp. 237, 288. 



Mliggins, .AinK alypsis, lib. 2, p. 77. 



6 lialboa, Hist, ilu P^ron, in Tomanx-Compans, Voy., vol. 15. 



