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Weather spirits—Ca-kak lives at the North mountain; he sends 
snow and winter weather. Cuitirawa’ne lives at West mountain; 
Maiyote:na, at South mountain (at Santa Ana he is said to be “‘gopher 
like’”’; ibid., p. 83); Cruwisininawi, at East mountain; Mdcpipyami, 
at zenith (at Santa Ana Mastyagama, “foxlike,’’ lives at the zenith; 
ibid.); Méripyami, nadir (he is “molelike”’ at Santa Ana); and G4- 
Daipya’m° at the middle. Stevenson (1894, pp. 28, 124) gives these 
names for the respective directions but she translates them as names 
of trees: spruce, pine, oak, aspen, cedar, and another kind of oak, 
respectively. Sia cosmology may well assign a tree to each of the 
cardinal points, but the preceding names are not those of trees (White, 
1945). 
Warriors —North, Tsémahia; west, Cinohafa; south, Yumahiya; 
east, Awahiya; zenith, Béyahdra; nadir, Kéyachdra. In addition to 
these are Tsérahdéya whose location is “everywhere” and Aiwana for 
whom no place was designated. Mdasewi and Oydéyewi, the twin War 
gods, are the heads of this group; they live in the east, in the Sandia 
Mountains. These 10 warriors are addressed in “‘a rain song of the 
Querranna society’”’ recorded by Stevenson (1894, p. 130). The tsatya 
gowatcanyl, the present-day helpers of the War chiefs, bear the names 
of the warriors of the north, west, south, and east, respectively. All 
10 of these warrior spirits are ‘armed; they protect the pueblo against 
witches (kanadyaiya), sickness, and ill will.” 
Women.—North, kétemmako, ‘yellow woman”; women in myths 
are usually referred to as kotcininako; west, mermako, blue-green 
