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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



30 Yonder toward all directious 



One by one they made their roads 

 go forth. 



Yonder finding those who have 

 been granted domain 



On all the mossy mountains, 



Along the slopes of the mountains, 



In all the shady places, 

 36 The forests. 



The brush. 



And at the feet of some lucky one 



40 Offering prayer meal. 

 Shell, 

 Corn ])ollen, 



Among their slender finger tips 

 45 They looked about. 



Breaking off the young green 

 shoots of some lucky one, 



And drawing them toward him ' 



Even from wliere they abide 

 quietly, 

 50 Holding their long life. 



Holding their old age, 



He brought them hither. 



Now tliis many days 



In our houses, 

 55 With us, their cliildren. 



They have stayed. 



Then, when all their days were 

 past. 



With their warm human hands. 



They took firm hold of them. 

 60 For their ancestors. 



Their children, 



The ones who have attained tlie 

 far off place of waters,^ 



For their sun father. 



For their moon mother, 

 65 For their need 



We prepared plume wands. 



With the massed cloud robe 



Of the one who is our grandfather, 



Male turkey, 



30 lalhok" le'si te'kwi 

 o'neala" kwai'ilenaplja. 



lalhok" a''wico ja'la'kona 



le'letc i'tiwa'kona 



te'lula'kona 



ulo'na ya'niktcia'kona 

 3G ta'kwi-lpo-'fi 



la'kwi-lpo'li 



hoi tcuw ha'lowi'li'kona 



an sa'kwia 

 40 ha'lawotinane 



lo'-'o 



o'nean-e 



a"'leakna 



a'sin Ea'tsowakwinte 

 45 i''yun'ulapnap'ka. 



hoi tcuw ha'lowih 'kona 



a"'Eawulkwi'nakna 



a"'wana'ulaEapa. 



hoi yam lu'wa'la'ki'konante 



50 yam o'naya'naka le'apa 



yam ta'ciaka le'apa 



o'neal i'Eiina 



le'si te'wanan'e 



ho'na-wan he'cota'kona 

 55 ho'na tca'wilapa 



te'wanan a-'teaka 



kes an te'mla tewaka tea'ana 



yam a'sin Ealnaka 

 a' ' wiyatenatsii' meKana 

 60 yam a'lacina-we 

 yam tea' we 

 le'hok" Eacima te^'wokauaplfa 



yam ya'toka ta'tcu 

 yam ya'onaka tsi'ta 

 65 a''wan hai'to 



hon te'likina' ye'lete'unaplfa. 



yam nanili te'ona 



ton ots an a'weluyan pa'in-e 



* Changes from singular to plural, from first to third person, are frequent in Zuiii prayers which make 

 little effort toward coherence or clarity of expression. Indeed, obscurity is a prized feature of the style of 

 the men "who know how to pray." Lucidity is characterized as childish. 



' The dead. Sticks are offered to the ancestors, the sun, and the moon. 



