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ZUNI RITITAL POETRY 



(ETH. ANN. 47 



70 Our mother, 



Perpetuating your rite had since 



the first beginning, 

 This one '* sits quietly here. 

 Your day is made. 

 Keeping your days we pass our 



days. 

 75 Our mothers, 



Tlie ones who first had being 

 Keeping your days. 

 We pass our days. 

 That all our fathers, 

 80 Our mothers, 

 Our children. 

 That all these may be filled with 



the water of life, 

 Anxiously awaiting the making of 



your days, 

 85 We have passed our days. 

 Our children. 



All the different kinds of corn, 

 All over their earth mother 

 Stand poor at the borders of our 



land. 

 90 With their hands a little burnt. 

 With their heads a little brown, 

 They stand at the borders of our 



land. 

 So that these may be watered 



with fresh water 

 95 We keep your days. 

 That all our children 

 May nourish themselves with fresh 



water 

 Carefully they will rear their 



young. 

 100 And when our daylight children 

 Have nourished themselves with 



fresh water 

 We shall live happily 

 All our days. 

 This is all. 

 105 Thus speaking plain words 

 I set you down quietly. 



70 ho"nawan tsi'ta 



yam ko"nhol tci'miEa'kowa te'- 

 lia'na 



li'l lu'k' i'm-ila'Eukii 



to"na"wan te'wanan yo'ka 



?o"na'wan te'wanan i'lap lion 

 te'wanan a-'teaiye. 

 75 ho"na'wan a''tsita 



tei'miKiina'kowa* 



to"na'wan ^e'wanan i'lapa 



hon le'wanan a''teaiye. 



yam le' a''tatcu 

 80 yam a''tsita 



yam tca'we 



le' Ka'cim a''ka'kunakwi 



?o"na'wa te'wanan yo-"kowa 

 a'n^sume'na 

 85 hon le'wanan a"'teaiye. 

 ho"na'wan tca'we 

 to'wa te'mlana-wa 

 yam a'witelintsi'ta' a'na'kowa 

 te'wuko'liya lu'wanel-pa'ltoye. 



90 ko'w a-'wasi-tca'pina 



ko'w a"'wjtsiniowa-.so'sona 

 hi'wanel-pa'ltoye. 



hi'lfniaEon Eiicima tci'm'ona 

 a'Eii'kunakwi 

 95 hon te'wanan i'lapa. 

 le'wi ho"na'wan tca'we 

 Ea'cima tci'm'ona 

 i''^a'li;unaptun'ona 

 e'letokna lie'apEunan o'na-ya' 

 Ran'a. 

 100 ho"na'wan te'Eohanan tca'we 

 Ea'cima i''Ea'kuna 



lle'wanan Ee' tsanici 

 hon te'wanan a''teEana. 

 le''wi 

 105 le yu"he'to pe'nan kwai"ina 

 torn lo' a'nim-la'Eu. 



The Pekwin Goes Into Retreat 



The retreat of the pekwin follows next after the priests of the four 

 directions. He is priest of the sun, and is associated, according to 

 Mrs. Stevenson, with the zenith. This association, however, does 

 not seem firmly fixed. 



' The sacred bundle. 



