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entrance) at the baee of the mountain. Here they found Pa'yatanui" i)layinu: on his 

 flute, while eight beautiful maidens ground corn and sang. 



On their return to the village the Gods of War told of their visit to Pa'yatanm 

 and of his beautiful music, and when the Little Fire fraternity was preparing for 

 a ceremonial the director dispatched a member of the fraternity for Pa''yatanm 

 requesting that he come and play his flute^ while their maidens ground medicine. 

 The god complied with the request, and remained four days and nights, accompany- 

 ing on his flute the maidens in their songs as they ground. On the fifth morning 

 he passed his flute to the lips of those present that the sacred breath misrht be 

 drawn from the flute, and then he departed for his home at Shun'te'kiaya. 



Again, when the Corn maidens were to dance, a warrior and another member of 

 the Little Fire fraternity were sent to ask Pa'yatiimu to be present for the occasion. 

 He arrived the night previous to the dance and went at once to the ceremonial 

 chamber of the fraternity, where he remained until morning. At sunrise he accom- 

 panied a warrior of the fraternity to Si'aa^ te^wita and took his seat on the north 

 side of the ham'pone (pavilion) erected for the dancers and just outside of it to the 

 east, a position similar to the one occupied by him when he observed the Corn 

 maidens dance the first time in I'tiwanna. '' Pa^yatamu played for a portion of the 

 dances, which were called sho'kowe (name of Pa'yatiinm's flute), to distinguish them 

 from those dances when Pa^yatiimu did not plav. Before leaving I'tiwanna, he pre- 

 sented his flute to a member of the fraternity, and initiated him into the secret of 

 playing upon it. The god of music never again appeared to the fraternity. This 

 man in turn initiated nine other members, forming an order which he named Pa'ya- 

 tilmu, after the god, and himself became the director of the order. A flute was fash- 

 ioned after the one presented by Pa'yatumu for each member of the new order. 



The novice receives from his fraternity father a flute and the te'na'sali, 

 mixture of the order. The order plays at the time of the 'Hla'hewe 

 ceremonial (see page 180). Many of the prayer plumes offered to 

 Pa'yatamu are much longer than those commonly offered to the gods, 

 and are very attractive (see plate cxxviii). 



*Ko'shi'kwe (Cactus Fraternity) 



Membership in the *Ko'shi'kwe is confined to males. A man who 

 kills an enemy but does not take the scalp, and one cured of a wound 



aPa'yatiimu causes flowers, especially the te'na'siili, to bloom with the music of his flute, and with 

 it he calls together the butterflies of the world. The te'na'siili, a plant supposed to bear blossoms of 

 the colors of the six regions, is collected once in four years by those specially designated for the 

 purpose. Two prayer plumes to the sun and moon, two to Pa'yatamu, and two to te'na'.siili are made 

 by each collector and deposited just previous to collecting the plant. The A'shiwanni and the 

 esoteric fraternities, except the Bow priesthood and Cactus, have both the root and flowers of the 

 tc'na'sjili. It is claimed by the directors of the order of Pa'yatjimu of the Little Fire and Cimex 

 fraternities that they combine with the flowers of the te'na'siili the hearts of l)utterllies and dragon 

 flies. This is known as the sun medicine. The te'na'siili is ground in the fraternity chamber amid 

 great ceremony. All the flutes belonging to the order are played, while the musicians stand before 

 the altar. The te'na'siili is deposited in a large shell, which stands on the cloud symbol of meal at 

 the altar, and crushed with a smaller shell by the director of the order of Pa'yatiimu. 



The te'na'siili is always used by the Hunters fraternity in connection with their ceremonial hunt, 

 but they do not possess the hearts of the butterflies and dragon flies. The powdered flowers and root 

 of the te'na'siili are administered in small quantities to the male members of the fraternities. No 

 woman mn.st have this powder, as, if she were married, she would be unfaithful to her husband; if 

 unmarried, she would be filled with amorous desires. 



The same powder is taken into the mouth and spit out upon the body for psychic purification, and 

 it is also spit out when one is traveling to insure following the right course. 



b See p. 4S. 



