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are also in the belief of the Cochiteilos, and the sun is never called 

 'father' and the moon 'mother', as among the people of Taos, Isleta, 

 Jemez, and Zimi. 



"The Tehuas [Tewa]," says Bandelier,' "call the sun T'han and 

 the moon Po; and their principal deities bear the names of T'han Sendo, 

 sun-father, and P'ho Quio, or moon-woman." The moon is never 

 called PoJiwijo, nor does T'qnsejHio mean 'sun-father.' 



Names for sun in other Pueblo languages are: Taos t'ulend, Isleta 

 funide, Piro (Bartlett) "pu-e", Jemez pe ovpetfosa^ Cochiti ofata, 

 Zuni j a' ttolcy a {Stevenson: "Yiitokia . . . means bearer of light"), 

 Hopi tiCwa. The moon is called: Taos paend, Isleta paiie, Piro 

 (Bartlett) "a-e," Jemez pd, Cochiti td'wata, Zuni jdunanne, Hopi 

 tnyjaui^. 



There is in Tewa no name such as ' luminary ' applied to both sun 

 and moon. 



The sun and moon pass daily from east to west over trails which run 

 above the great waters of the skv. They see and know as do Indians 

 here on earth. When they set they pass through a lake to the under- 

 world and travel all night to the east, where they emerge through a lake 

 and start out on their trails again. They know their trails,' imbipo\iijf 

 'they 2'+; ii possessive; po 'trail'). Cf. S&nskvit dyu-patha- 'sky 

 trail,' Latin cursus soils. The trails are also called ^ok'impo 'vapor 

 trails' i^ok'iyf 'vapor'; po 'trail"). 



When there is an eclipse the sun or the moon is said to die. The 

 expressions are: nqt'qntfu 'it sun dies' {ml 'it' 'he'; t'qijf 'sun'; tfu 

 ' to die'), wc'P<3^/m 'it moon dies' (rt4 'it' 'he'; p? 'moon'; //»- 'todie'). 

 The Indians never say T'qns^ndo nqtfu or Pos^nd/O nqtfu, for the 

 divine persons in the sun and moon can not die. "Our Lords can not 

 die." 



The sun is said to walk through the sky clothed in white deerskin 

 and ornamented with many line beads. The sun has a beautiful face 

 tse, hidden hy a mask, t'qnf'q or i'qmhi 'y {fq])f 'sun'; '4 'mask'; ti 

 possessive). An extracted tooth is thrown to the sun. " The summer 

 sun is green, the winter sun yellow."" 



Of a ring about the sun the Tewa say Tq7iso>do 'ohumq 'Sun Old 

 Man hasaring' {T'qnsi7ido, see above; 'o'he' 'it'; bu 'ring' 'circle'; 

 w;a 'to have'). Mexicans of New Mexico call this phenomenon ojo 

 del buey ' ox's eye '.' The Indians say that it does not mean anj'thing. 



When the sun is "drawing water" the Tewa say t'qmhiqw^'Qf ' the 

 sun's tail' {fqijf 'sun'; H possessive; qwxyf 'tail'). This phenome- 

 non is seen when the sun is low in the sky, and the name is applied 

 because the rays resemble a tail. 



The emergence hole in the lake through which the sun rises is called 

 t' qtjk' oj i {i' qrj f 'sun'; Foji 'emergence hole' 'roof -hole'). Nqt'qnijn^ 



' Bandelier, Final Report, pt. I, p. 308, 1890. 

 J Ibid., p. 3U. 



