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ORDER OF KOK'kO 'hLAN'NA 



While this order is known as Kok'ko 'hhin'nii (Great (xod), tliero are 

 three anthropic gods associated with it, Kok'ko 'hlan'na, Shits'ukia, 

 and Kwe'lele, who are supposed to live in the east near Shi'papolinia/' 

 home of Po'shaiyaiiki, the Zufii culture hero. 



The order of Kok'ko 'hlan'na can be joined oidy when these uods 

 are summoned to the village by an illness Avhich produces swelling- of 

 any part of the ))ody. They possess great power over such maladies, 

 but nuist not l)e called upon until all other efforts have failed to etiect 

 a cure. 



The following story is implicitly believed by the Zunis: 



In the olden time the god Shumai'koU« traveled from the west to the east, and the 

 Kok^ko'hlan^na was passing a little to the west, and they met. Kok^ko 'hlan'na was 

 the first to speak. He inquired of the stranger: "Who are yon, and what is your 

 business?" Shumai'koli replied: "Who .are yon, and what is your l)usiness?" 

 "Well," said Kok'ko 'hlan'na, "I have medicine here that will quickly kill a man 

 if I put it on him." Then Shumai'koli told him to try it on him if he wanted to. 

 "All right," said the Kok'ko 'hlan'na, " I will." He then rubbed his medicine over 

 the body of the Shumai'koli, who soon began to swell all over; even his fingers 

 were four times their normal size. After being in this condition four or five days, 

 Shumai'koli cried: " I am almost dead. You must take off your medicine; it will 

 kill me." The Kok'ko 'hlan'na then removed his medicine, and said, "Now, let 

 me see you try your medicine," and the Shumai'koli covered the Kok'ko 'thlan'na 

 with his medicine, and almost immediately his legs and arms and every part of the 

 body twisted like ropes; and he called to the Shumai'koli to remove his medicine at 

 once or he would die, that he was nearly dead then; and the Shumai'koli removed 

 the medicine. Then the Kok'ko 'hlan'na shook hands with the Shumai'koli and 

 said: "Your medicine is better than mine. I could live but a short time with your 

 medicine, while you could live a long time with mine. You are my elder l)rother, 

 and you will come to my house." These gods have since this time lived near one 

 another. 



When a member of the Kok'ko 'hlan'na wishes another to join his 

 order he makes known to him his wish.. If the one invited accepts, 

 he carries meal wrapped in a corn husk to the member, who becomes 

 the fraternity father of the novice; but should the novice already 

 be a member of another order of the frate^-nity, the meal gift is not 



necessar3\ 



Ceremony foh the Cure ok Sore Thro.\t 



A ceremonial to cure a sore and badly swollen throat, observed by 

 the writer in 1891, is here described: 



Kok'ko 'hlan'na, Shits'ukia, and Kwe'lele (see plates xxvi, xxvii, 

 and cxv) arrive near sunset and ascend to the roof of the house of 

 the invalid, who is a young man. This is the signal for the patient 

 to be placed on a pallet in the middle of the floor. The half-reclin- 

 ing body, facing east, is supported by the chosen fraternity father, 

 who must, of course, be a member of the order of Kok'ko 'hlan'na. 

 Only the patient and members of this order may be present. The 



a See p. 407. 



