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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



60 The food ** which they cooked for 

 us, and gave us to take along. 

 Taking only that, 

 We shall make our roads descend.*" 

 With the song cycles of our 



fathers,"' yonder, 

 Life-giving priests, 

 55 Life-giving pekwins, 

 Life-giving bow priests, 



We danced the night away. 



Now at last, my children, 

 60 Hasten now, 



Get ready now. 



At the new year 



All my fathers 



Witli tlieir precious plume wanfl 

 65 Appointed me. 



There to the south 



Following where come out the 

 roads of my fathers, 



Rain-makers, priests, 



70 Even with my own poorly made 

 plume wands, 

 I continued to give my fathers 



plume wands. 

 And when all the cycle of their 

 months was at an end, 

 75 .^t the place called since the first 

 beginning Ayayalfa *' 

 Meeting my fathers, 



I gave them plume wands. 



Tlieir day count having been 



counted up, 

 80 There to the west. 



Where my fathers' road comes in, 

 I continued to give them plume 



wands. 

 When all these days were past, 



85 The one who is my father 

 Took hold of me; 

 Where he had laid a seat 

 Four times he sprinkled prayer 

 meal upon it. 



50 ho' i'tona'kona a''hanelan'kona 



u"si te'tci le'apa 



hon o'neala pa'ni-Eiina'wa 



lalhok" yam a-'tatcu 



o'na"ya''nalfa a"'ciwan"i 

 55 o'na-ya"'naifa pe'kwi'we 



o'naya''na[fa a-'pi'la'ciwan-i 



a''wan pi'clenan tena'pi'la na'k'a 



hon i'talna le'waEiinapka. 



te'wuna' tca'we 

 GO he'ciEana-we ke-'si 



ye'lete'ena'we }(:e''si 



liol i'tiwana 



homa le-w a^'tatcu 



te'likina ya-'n a'lfa 

 65 hom a'nulana-wapa 



li''wan a'laho'ankwin ta"na 



yam a-'tatcu 



u'wanam a''ciwan'i 



a''wan Ka'cima o'neala' kwai"nai 

 ta'pana 

 70 te'likina ko-'li a'lewunante 



yam a^'tatcu 



ho' te'likin a^'lea'u tea^a. 



^es le'na a^'wan ya'teupi'la i'te'- 



tci^a tea'ana 

 l{a"'Ea tci'miEfUfii 

 75 ai'yaya-Jfii le"aniEanankwl 

 ho' yam a-'tatcu 

 a- ' wona-elatena. 

 ho' te'likinan a''leapa 

 a''wa ya'lenan pi'laEapa 



SO li-'wan Ealici'ankwin ta"na 



yam a-'tatcu 



a-'wan o'neal i'nakwi 



ho' te'lilfinan a-'lean teaifa. 



^es le'na a''wan fe'mla te'walja 

 te'a'ana 

 85 ho'ma ta'tcu te"ona 



ho'ma ya'tejfa 



yam Eacima pai'yan a'lkwi 



a''witela'ma 



ha'lawo'tinan a''witela'ma o'ta'- 

 wite'-ya'itona 



" The bowls of foo<Hrom which the offerings are made during the night are immediately taken by the 

 girls of the house to the houses of the impersonators, as a gift from the house. This is also done in the 

 morning, when other gifts arc also taken, a butchered sbeep, piece of calico, and sometimes blankets. 



«« That is, go out. When they come in they "climb up" (the ladder). 



'" The choir of the medicine society that sang for them. 



68 The spring at which kohaito was made in 1927. " 



