ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



65 Has come out standing to liis 



sacred place, 

 Saying, let it be now, 

 Our two fathers, 



The ones who hold the high places, 

 70 Yonder will pass their elder 



brothers on their roads. 

 Wlierever they pass the divine ones 



on their roads 

 Taking their places, 

 They will sit down quietly. 

 75 Yonder on all the mossy moimtain 



tops, 

 All about they will have tlieir 



sacred places. 

 All the forests 

 All the brush 

 Being made representatives in 



prayer 

 80 That all the corn priests' children 

 May hold fast to life; 

 That this may be so. 

 The divine ones. 

 Taking one another's places, 

 Sit down quietly. 

 85 Holding aU their world. 



Holding all their people fast. 

 They wiU sit down quietly. 

 And then also these others," 

 Asking in prayer for life for their 



children 

 They will add to our breath, 

 Seeking our relatives, 

 Our elders, 



Near-by in all their houses 

 95 Wlierever they lie sleeping. 

 These they will hold fast. 



And also our children. 



Those who watcli over the ones 



through which we prosper," 

 100 Those who for the sake of their 



cliildren. 

 For the sake of their flocks 

 Yonder on all sides 

 Wander over their earth mother. 

 Who even on the bare ground 



stand at the edges of our land — 



yam te'lacinakwi 

 65 ye"'lana kwai"iEapa 



hot kaEi ke'si'le"anaEapa 



hon a'tcia tatc i'lap a''te"ona 



te'alan i'lon a"'tci 



le'hok" yam a''paj5a 

 70 ate a-'wona-e'latek:ln'a 



hoi Ka'pin a"'ho'i 



i''yona-e'latena 



i-'yali'na 



i'tinan la'Eikna 

 75 la'lhok" le'w a'wico yiila Eatsowa- 

 'kona 



le'lacin u'lapKana 



takwil-pa'ti 

 lakwil-pD' i 

 te wus ya'nulana'wapa 



80 lio'wa ci'wan an le'apEuna'we 

 ya'kna tsu'me 

 hoi a''teatun'onaka. 

 Ka'pin a"'ho'i 

 i'yali'nan i''tinan la'Eikna 



85 lew yam u'lo'nan ya'tena 



le' yam ho"i ya'Iena-tsu'meEiina 



i''tinan i'la'Eikapa 



tem la lu'knia'konte 



tc'wusu le'kohanan yai'ncemana 



90 yam tea' we 



ho"na' wan pi"nan te'liana'wa 

 ho"na-wan i"yanilsi'na'we 

 ho"nawan a-'lacinawe 

 la'lik yam he'cota-wa'kona 



95 ya'telan a''ne ta'pana 

 lu'kniaEo 



a'wiyaten-tsu'meEana 

 lem ta ho"na'waD tca'we 

 yam a'^' el a'te'ona 



100 yam tca'wak' a''ni 



yam wo-'wa^f' a''ni 

 la'lhok" le'si te'kwi 

 yam a'witelin tsi'tana'kona 

 a'wek pa'ltocon'ona 



' The old images that are laid aside. 

 ' The herders of sbeep. 



