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ZUNI KITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



We pass our days. 



Whenever your days are at an end, 



Then we shall fulfill our thoughts. 



Our mother, 



The one who first had being, 



To wherever you abide permanently, 



To your fourth inner room. 



You will make your road go in. 



Then again, holding your country. 



Holding your people. 



You will sit down quietly for us, 



Therefore as children to one another 



We shall always remain. 



My child. 



My mother. 



According to my words, 



Even so may it be. 



Do not let go of your people; 



Let not your thoughts be thus. 



Let no difficulty befall any of our day- 

 light children. 



Our ladder descending children, 



When they have gone but a little ways 

 on their road! 



That this may not be 



I commission '" you with my prayers. 



Because of my words 



You will sit down quietly. 



This many are the days. 



And when your days are at an end. 



You will sit down quietly. 



Although we say we have fulfilled your 



thoughts 

 No! we have not yet fulfilled your 



thoughts. 

 Our office never lapses. 

 When we come to another day," 

 Then again eagerly awaiting your rite 

 We shall pass our days. 

 For the winter eagerly waiting 

 We shall pass our days. 

 This is all. 



Thus with plain words. 

 My father, 

 My mother, 

 My child, 

 Thus you sit down quietly. '^ 



CI'WANI A-'NI 



Priest his 



lu'ka ya'ton'e 



This day 



hon a''tatc i'lapona 



we fathers the ones (we) have 



tci-'miEanapkowa 



the ones that first had being 



a' 'wan Ea'cim a'ntecemana 



their waters desiring 



yam he'co?an'e 



our house 



ha'lawo"tinan"e 



prayer meal 



lo"o o'nea- ye'lete'una 



shell poUen having prepared 



Ra'Hiok" ?e'wus a'ka 



hither prayer with 



hon o'neala kwai"ikana 



we roads making come forth 



Ka'lhok" o'neal a^'Eaka. 



hither roads made go. 



I object or person to any ceremonial 



i» Literally, "I set you up outside the door," used of appointing i 

 or civil office. 



" The next period of retreat. The rite is handed down m a self-perpetuating group through the gen- 

 erations. 



" The last part of the prayer refers to the bundle on the altar rather than the prayer stick oflermg. 



