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Wind 



W4 'wind'. ^Jwq.^o''" ' it is blowing ' 'it is windy' ('*'it'; wct'wind'; 

 'o'" progressive). Nq.w(l4a^'^ ' it wants to blow ' ' it looks like wind ' (?i4 

 'it'; ici 'wind'; <|a'" 'to want'). Kegi ^iipqd"' 'it is blowing hard' 

 {l>:<;gi 'hard'). A bullroarer is called wqtib 'wind call' {wq, 'wind'; tij, 

 'to call'). Wind is produced by "ITTjZw^/o 'Wind Old Woman' (i«l 

 'wind'; Tcwijo 'old woman'), who lives on Sandia Mountain [29:S3j. 



DUST-WIND 



N'cCiji^'' ' dust- wind' (of obscure etymology). ^Ina^^J-Po^" 'it is dust- 

 windy' 'there is a dust storm' ('-i 'it'; 'o'" present). JVq^iji'Wy, 'a 

 dark dust-cloud' {na'"'-ji''\ as above; h'u 'darkness' 'dark'). 



WHIRLWIND 



Mlgomi 'there is a whirlwind' (nq 'it'; ^oini unexplained). Ban- 

 delier ^ speaks of the whirlwind in Tewa symbolism. 



Lightning' 



Tstguw^tiy,yj' 'lightning'. 'Itsiguws^ny.nde'e 'lightning flashes' ('*' 

 'it'; tsiguwignuyj' 'lightning'; de^e present). At the point of each 

 lightning bolt there is supposed to be a tsiginvspnijintsi-i 'lightning 

 point' (tsiguw^ny.yj' lightning'; tsiH 'flaking stone' 'piece of flint or 

 obsidian' 'arrow point'). The light accompanying a lightning flash is 

 called tsil-'mijf 'meal of the point' (isPias above; I'seyj' 'meal flour'). 

 Lightning is produced by ^d¥uwa, who throw it from the clouds. 

 Flaking stone, wherever found, is supposed to be the result of light- 

 ning striking the earth. An ' die' uwa, having hurled a tsiguwxniintsi'i, 

 picks it up again if it is not shattered. That is why no perfect 

 tsiguwseminfsi'i are ever found on the earth. 



The arrows of the War Gods were of lightning; these arrows they 

 stole. 



Mr. C. L. Linney of the Weather Bureau at Santa Fe gives the in- 

 formation that lightning caused more than twenty deaths in New 

 Mexico in 1911. Three years ago a prominent Indian of Nambe was 

 killed at the place called Jobuhii^v, [25:00], east of that pueblo. 



Thunder, Thunderstorm 



Kvjqtq 'thunder'. Wkwq.tq'o''' 'it is thundering' ('* 'it'; l-ivq.tcl 

 'thunder'; \:i'° progressive). Thunder is produced by the Kwi'itql'wijo 

 'Thunder Old Woman' {l-wqtq, 'thunder'; kioljo 'old woman'). 



1 Final Report, pt. 1, p. 311, 1890. 



