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PRAYERS TO THE UWANAMMI 



663 



135 Do not cause people to speak ill of 



your days/' 

 But with waters caressing the 



earth 

 Let your days be filled. 

 With your waters 

 140 You will pass me on my road. 



Those which all my ladder descend- 

 ing children 

 Have sown with magical rites, 

 All the different kinds of corn, 

 Yonder all over their earth mother, 

 145 They stand poor at the borders of 



our land. 

 With their hands a little burnt, 

 With their heads brown, 

 They stand poor at the borders of 



our land. 

 That these may be nourished with 



fresh water, 

 150 Thus runs the thought of my 



prayer. 

 When the time of my days is at an 



end, 

 Though I say "mj' days are at an 



end," 

 No — it is not so. • 



155 Waiting anxiously until another 



day comes 

 We shall pass the days. 

 My fathers, 

 Now I have fulfilled your thoughts. 



This is all. 



135 el ton yam l;e'wanan ci'JKana-'wa- 

 meKan'a 



yam fe'wanan-e 



Ka'cima-le'lakwi 



hon te'wanan a''teEan'a. 



yam Ka'cim alfa 

 140 hom ton o'na-e'latena''wapa 



le' }e'tsilon pa'ni-nan hom tca'we 



la'lhok" a''wan itsumana'we 

 l^o'wa ie'm'lana 

 yam a'witelin tsi'tana'kowa 

 145 te'wuko'liya lu'walan-pa'Hoye 



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

 a-'wotsimo'wa so'sona 

 te'wuko'liya luwalan pa'ltoye. 



lu'kniako Ea'cim a-Ea'Eunakwin 



150 li'ino hom fe'wusu tse'makwi' 

 a'naiye 

 hom Je'wanan-e 

 te'wanan i-'te'tcapa 

 te'wanan i-'te'tcika le'kwapa 



e'la 

 155 topa te'watun te'kwi a'n?sume'na 



hon te'wanan a''teEan-a. 



hom a-'tatcu 



to"na'wan ho' tse"makwi- mo'la'ka 



ke-'si 

 le-wi. 



The Bow Priest in Retreat in Summer 



On the day the pekwin comes out of retreat in summer the bow 

 priest begins to count days. He is not a rain priest. He has no 

 altar; he has no rain-making fetish; Ms sacred possessions are asso- 

 ciated rather with war. Therefore, instead of remaining in medita- 

 tion and prayer in his ceremonial house, he makes ofi'erings at the 

 various shrines of the gods of war on mountain tops around Zuni. 

 The first day he goes to the north, to Twin Mountains; the second 

 day to the west — the place actually \asited is a shrine to the south on 

 a Ivnoll near the road to the Salt Lake. The thii'd day he goes to the 

 south, Face Mountain, a shrine southeast of Zuiii; the fourth day to 

 the east, a knoll near the Black Rock road. At each of these shrines 

 he offers corn meal and turquoise wdth prayers for rain and fertihty. 

 He offers these in his capacity of priest rather than as warrior. 



^* The pekwin is severely criticized should it fail to rain during the days of his retreat. Criticism does 

 not fall so heavily on other priests should they fail. 



