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called liwa; of the dead, the saints and the Spanish g;od Dius. Dis- 

 tinctively, there is Wa>ide, with the attributes of a high god ("he is the 

 head of all") and, whatever his origin, to-day certainly not to be 

 confounded wdth Dius. And yet, like Dius, he is never seen, and, as 

 Dius created the pictures and images of the saints, so did W^ide 

 create the Corn mothers (iema'paru)'' who were brought up from 

 imderground and from whom the medicine men get their power. 

 It was Wffiide who sent the people themselves on their journey of 

 emergence (see pp. 360, 362). The tales (p. 412) how Wseide and 

 Dius tested their power show that they are thought of as cjuite distinct 

 beings. To Dius, Wjeide is younger brother (paiide); but Waeide's 

 ceremonies (a general reference) are unknown to Dius. Food offer- 

 ings are made to Wseide, habituall^v v.ith. ofl'erings to the dead.*" 

 Was Wfeide*' derived from Dius so long ago that the borrowing has 

 been forgotten, or has Wande some Indian origin other than Pueblo, 

 there being no corresponding high god among the other Pueblo 

 peoples? Or is Waeide merely the singidar form of wenin, as one in- 

 formant insisted ,^^ a term for the kachina. Weide, asserted this 

 informant, referred to Montezuma.*^ 



Again distinctively, among the collective dead, are the stillborn 

 (yoimau) to whom in the solstice ceremonies offeiings are made. 

 The Navaho dead, the scalps, are common to other Pueblos. 



The sun is referred to as kikaawei turide, our father sun; the moon, 

 as kikewei p'aide, our mother** moon; the stars, as kimuwei paxo'lan, 

 our sons (the) stars. Not only is meal sprinkled to the sun at sun- 

 rise (see p. 276), but in the afternoon,** when the evening star comes 

 out, silent prayer is addressed as follows to the sun, men at the time 

 removing their hats: 



From another infoniiant 1 got Waeide, u term meaning pure, clear, without sin. 



»- See below. 



" See p. 415. 



*' In the Isletan migration south ihe moon has changed si-x. In one tale, however, the moon i 

 kikaawei paiide. our father Moon. i,P. 399.) 



" See p. 368, 



