302 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



ahi ahi truhi truhi, the familiar call. The others present help with 

 their song. Kumpa sprinkles pollen in the directions, he dances, 

 calls out, hisses. He is going to work to bring lightning. He tells 

 somebody to open the door, then as he throws pollen toward one 

 of the two lightning designs on the buckskin altar, lightning actually 

 flashes in through the doorway.'- Ivumpa says, "Upiri tupy," 

 lightning, (?) see! He throws pollen on the other lightning design 

 and again the lightning flashes in. Kumpa says to lightning, "Hu'pi- 

 tanin'!" Stay still! and lightning stops at the two altar designs. 

 To those present kumpa says, "The road of ikainare is now cleaned 

 up," i. e., opened. 



Kumpa is dancing and calUng, looking toward the door. Kabew'i- 

 ride is singing: Ikanare kaare atur'jire (ikanare father drawing 

 him ?). In conies ikainare, short and chunky. He hisses, shooting 

 out his tongue. All stand up; kabew'iride says, Hu'pitanin'i 

 hu'pitanin' ! Stay still ! Stay still ! They throw poUen to him 

 which he sucks into his mouth. He lies dowTi on the back of the 

 buckskin as if asleep. The two chiefs of the medicine societies come 

 and sprinkle him wath pollen and meal. Kabew'iride bids ikainare 

 to feed from the basket of meal and he proceeds to suck in the meal. 

 All smoke in the directions and to ikainare. Kumpa makes an 

 address, giving thanks that the dangerous one did not beset them. 

 The town chief gives his medicine bowl to the war chief who gives 

 it to kumpa who spits from it on ikainare, saying, 



howaiawa chiache kikaawe wai'ide upiri somba 



that you may have a long life our father antelope-deer lightning man 



a'pisheche kikaawe shia muoye ald'beche 



cleans up for you our father stone point guards takes care of you 



papthur weba aoko'weche 



pollen actually (?) reaches you 



Now all leave but kumpa, kabew'iride, the town chief, the war 

 chief, the hunt chief, the medicine society chiefs, all of whom go on 

 with the ceremony of which they alone know until the following noon, 

 when, after paying ikainare with beads and turquoise around his 

 neck, they send hiin up to the sun.'^ 



In the ceremony, whenever ikainare has hissed he has been cleaning 

 up the town, washing away whatever is bad. This night the elders 

 tell you not to go around outside, lest ikainare catch you. And the 

 women close the doors and windows. 



12 Compare Tewa. Parsons 17: 89. See Luininis 2: 83. 



'3 In the folk tale he who was to become the horned serpent was the son of the sun, throwing the sun's 

 kicli stick. (See p. 372.) 



