196 CONTENTS 



Calendar: Page 



List of months 288 



Solstice determination and calendrical events 288 



Ceremonies and ritual complexes 290 



Solstice ceremony of the Corn groups 290 



Ceremony of bringing in the horned serpent 30 1 



Christmas Eve and Christmas dances, 1925 303 



Kings' dance, January 5-10 306 



Ceremony of general cleansing 307 



Ritual for expelling grasshoppers 314 



Kachina basket dance 314 



Ceremony of initiation into medicine society (Laguna Fathers)__ 315 



Liwapor or sharu'por (land turtle dance) 317 



Irrigation ditch ritual and dance 318 



Ritual of fetching red paint 320 



Planting ritual 32 1 



Liwa fy'nide, dark kachina 321 



Races; war ceremonial 324 



Moiety transfer ceremonies 330 



Ceremony of bringing down the moon and stars 330 



Rain ceremony 330 



Advent of liwale; kompor or the pinitu dance; rabbit hunt, Sej)- 



tember 25-October 5 332 



Ceremony of bringing in Salt old woman 336 



Ceremony of hunt chief 336 



Hunting ritual 337 



Type ceremony of curing 339 



Supernaturals 340 



Comparative discussion 345 



Orai'bi, the Laguna colony 348 



Folk Tales 



Einerg(uice and other origin tales . 359 



1. The emergence 359 



L Tale fragments 360 



n. The origin of the Eagle people 362 



ni. Prayer fragment about the emergence 363 



2. The disobedient town chief 363 



3. How the town chief got his Mother 366 



4. The sun's kick stick 368« 



6. The origin of the liwa (pinitu) dances 372 



6. The war cai)tain who was incontinent 373 



7. The cacicjue who turned his son to stone 374 



8. How humuhu was born 375 



Variant 378' 



9. The town chief flies away on his eagle and is recovered by bat__ 379» 



10. The first rattlesnake 384 



1 1 . How they began to race for the sun 386 • 



Variant 388 . 



12. The Sun takes a head 390 



13. Unwelcome suitors; impregnation by Sun; Lake boy; the twins 



seek their Father Sun; shot inside the arrow; Grandmother 

 Spider's little pot; Dove girls; the twins make the serpent dis- 

 gorge; heart in the egg; Sun tests in oven; Sun gets a new heart. 392 1 



