BUNZEL] RELIGIOUS LIFE 525 



all present in order to counteract the contaminating influence of 

 the transgression. At the Ca'lako two Saliniopia are present to per- 

 form this service. 



The final whipping of the boys is performed by the SayaHa by 

 order of the priests, some time during the Ca'lako festivities. This 

 also seems to be a rite of exorcism, and is followed by general whipping 

 to remove bad luck. 



Another masked ceremony held at irregular intervals, and by 

 express order of Pautiwa, is the dance of the Ka'na^kwe or white 

 gods. This is a group dance like the kiva dances but is performed 

 by a special self-perpetuating cult group owning ancient masks and 

 esoteric ritual. The beings impersonated are of a difl^erent order. 

 They do not live at Kohiwala'wa. They are essentially hostile, and 

 therefore must not remain overnight in the village. Their rites have 

 no place in the regular cycle. They bring with them seeds, which 

 are given to the priests, and large quantities of food, which they 

 throw away to the people, so the purpose of their rite may be assumed 

 to be fertility. 



THE CULT OF THE WAR GODS 



The war cult of the Pueblos, as in other tribes, is greatly in abey- 

 ance at the present time due to enforced peaceableness. .\lthough 

 the Pueblos probably were never aggressive warriors, intertribal war- 

 fare was once an important part of life, and was accompanied by 

 elaborate ceremonies. 



The gods of war in Zuiii are the A'hayuta, t-win children of the Sun 

 begotten of a waterfall when the Zufiis, wandering in search of the 

 middle, were in dire need of mihtary leadership."^ They led the 

 people to victory and gave them the rites of war. They are the 

 patrons of contests of all kinds, including foot races and games of 

 chance. In folklore the A'hayuta appear as two dirty, uncouth, cruel, 

 and disobedient children, masking their great powers behind obscene 

 and ridiculous exteriors. They Uve on the mountain tops, they are 

 lords of the high places, and their shrines are on all the prominent 

 mountains about Zuni. 



The cult of the A'hayuta, the gods of war, and leadership of war 

 parties, is delegated to the Bow Priests, and several less important 

 groups, the priests who keep pa'eton-e, a war fetish, the priests of 

 the great shell and the scalp chief, who takes care of the scalps in the 

 scalp house, and the men who carve and decorate the idols of the war 

 gods. 



Membership in the bow priesthood is restricted to those who have 

 killed an enemy. No matter what the circumstances of the killing, 

 no escape is possible from the burden of membership, for the slayer 



" See teit of origin myth, p. 597. 



