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America — an 

 vestiges of a 

 ar to those of 

 of which are 



TUA.NSi.VCnoNsJ OV StCTlU.N II. 



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passed. We are now in the fourth. .\ gnat prophet or divine l(i>ing. railed n 

 Napa, exists diiriii;: eacli of th.'Ne er.is. Ilu- ISlaekfeet haw al^o a zodiac uf 

 twenty-four constellations, something that the Aztecs did not npproacli in their 

 imperfect zodiac. They also have the .-ame nam.'s as wo have for tlic |{,'lt of 

 Orion, Siriiis, ami the llyades, the latter stars in Taurus Ijcing calinl tlie JJull of 

 the Hills. They liavo aacrecl vestal virgins, a Lent, or sacred period of forty days, 

 the time of the occnltation of the Pleiades, and festivals and rites that sirni t(v 

 belong to the civilised nations of tlie Old World. Thfv iia\e also 'their seven 

 perfect ones,' the Pleiades, which reminds us of the ' .-evfii jierlect ones' of tlie 

 ( 'hinese Jiuddhists. 



10. Ndies flit the Astronoinlcal Ciistunis (uid liiilijiona Lh'H'i of the 

 Chohitupia or lihirl-frct Indians. Bij Jkan L'Hkukki x, M.A. 



They observe the lMeia<les, and regulate their festivals by tlieni. At the tiniw 

 of the disappearance and reappearance of thoae stars are two festivals; the first, 

 the solemn ]ilanting of the seed, marking the beginning of the agricultural season 

 the feast of liinis.«i-maii, a festival of the men - iind Monloka, tin- women's festival, 

 when these stars reaiipear. The first means thi.' grave or burning of the seed, and 

 the other 'the meeting of the absent one." (Jii tlie last day of the occnltation, 

 there is a women"s festival called the Maniiifani, tiie tiag-pole dauc^'. The vestals 

 of the sun take part in this, (hioi is the autumn festival, always accompanied 

 by a feast of the dead. They call it Sfajxi.icaii, the dance of the dead. 'J'lio 

 women swear by the I'leiiules, and the men by the sun ; the former are called ' th't 

 seven ones,' but the word imjilies |ierl'ection, anil llierefnre means ' the seven per- 

 fect ones.' The calumet is always presented towards them in all sacred leasts 

 ■with prayers for life-giving blessings. 



These .stars were once seven youths guanliiig by night the sacred seed, and 

 keeping up all night a sacred dance. J'lpizors, the morning star, pltnised with their 

 dance, transported them to the heavens, where they delight the stars by their 

 nightly dance. The sand dance of the Male clan of warriors repre.sents their 

 celestial dance. They are called by the names of different birds. 



In the bath for purification of medicine-men, a hole in the form of a triangle is 

 made ; seven heated stones are placed in it, and cold water poured over it. When 

 their bathing invocation is made, tiny pray to the Pleiades for help in curing 

 bodily diseases. They have seven bones, balls, or buttons, as talismen. 



The tan cross is the symbol of healing,, and their paradise is an island in the 

 Pacific where there are many sand-hills. The dead are spoken of us ' gone to th> 

 sand-hills.' 



There was a figure found represented on stone— a circle with seven arms extended 

 from it. Also, near tumuli, the figure of a man with his arms extended; from 

 ■land to hand is a semi-eircle jiassing fiver his head. They also believe in the 

 thunder bird, and hold a least wlieii he returns in the spring. 



11. Notes on the Ktlnp Sesoatovf, or Ancient Snrrificlal Stone of the N.W. 

 Territory of Canada. Bij Jean L'HEUltKfX, :M.A. 



The writer concluded that Tliie line Tlapalan, or the ancient haliitation in tlie 

 North-west, which Aztec tradition jiointcd to, was in the Alberta district. !l^ 

 considered that thtv were the niound-biiilders, a branch of whom extended up to^ 

 the Saskatchewan. ' In the Alberta district are vestiges of this race. The niiius of 

 theCanantzi village, the Oniecina pictured rocks, the graded mounds of the third 

 Xapa in Bow IJivi'r, the tumuli of IJed liiver, tl;e walled city of the dead in the 

 Lake of Big Sandy Hill on the south Sa.«katchewan, and thoSesoator.«,or sacnhciai 

 stones of the country, to describe which is the object of the pajier. 



The Kamuco of the Quiche mourns over a portion of the race whom they left 

 in northern Tullan. The Papul Vuli, speaking of the cult of the morning star 

 among the Toltecs, states that they drew blood from their own bodies, and offered 

 it to their god Tohil, whose worship they first learned in the north. The Napa 



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