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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 47 



1 U) Cotton woman, 



Even a roughly made cotton 



thread, 

 A soiled cotton thread. 

 And with beads. 

 Even if only a single bead 

 Borrowed somewheres from among 



all the village branches,' 

 And with the pollen of their 



fathers. 

 Their mothers, 

 Their children, 

 120 The different kinds of corn, 

 And with turquoise. 

 Keeping it in their hearts. 

 They gave their day count human 



form. 

 Then our fathers, 

 125 Sayataca, bow priest, 



Molanhakto,' house chief priest, 



Passed their fathers on their road. 

 The day count to which they had 



given human form, 

 130 Four times drawing toward them. 

 With their day count 

 They took firm hold of tlieir 



fathers. 

 Carrying the day count, 

 135 They made their roads come forth. 

 To their houses 

 Their roads reached. 

 Saying, "Let it be now,' 

 Carrying the plume wands wliicli 



they had pre]5ared, 

 140 Carrying their father's day count, 



They made their roads go forth. 

 There to the south. 

 We made our roads go. 

 145 At the place called since the first 



beginning 

 Ants-go-in ' 

 We passed our fathers on their 



roads. 



110 j3i'tsem o'lfa 



an ci'nane 



pi'le ko'tinapte 



pi'le ci'lfanapte 



la'lhok" le-w lu'walan ya'tciwe 

 115 hot yam lo'pacoH 



lo"o i'lopi'kowa 



yam a''tatcu 



yam a''tsita 

 yam tea' we 

 120 to'wa a'wan o'neaw a'ka 

 lo''o ak-a 

 i'wiljena-wa 

 yalanan ho'i ya'Kakatea'ana 



hon a-'tcia ta'tcili a'te'ona 

 125 sai'yataca pi"}aci'wan-i 



mo'lanha'kto Ka'kwemos-i ci'- 

 wan-i 



yam a'tatcu 



a"tc a'wona-e'lateEa 



yam ya'lenan ho"i ya-'tanapkowa 

 130 a'witela'ma a"naulana 



yam a'tcia ta'tci'li te"oiia 



ya'lenan a'k'a 



a'tcia Isu'me ya'tenaplfa. 



ya'lenan i"'leana 

 135 o'neala kwai'ikana 



yam he'cotakwi 



o'neala te'tciEiina 



IfaEi ke''si' le'anakapa 



yam te'lilfinan ye'lete'ukowa 

 i'leana 

 140 yam a'tatcu 



a'wan ya'lenan i'leana 



o'neala kwai"iKana 



lehok" a'laho'a'nkwin ta"na 



hon o'neal a''Kanapl{a. 

 145 Ifa'ka tci'mikakii 



ha'lon kwa'tona 



yam a'tatcu 



hon a'wona-e'latenapjfil. 



" Zufii is the center, the trunk of the tree, the other pueblos are the branches. The Zufiis do not classify 

 tlie Hopis with the "village people," as they call the eastern pueblos. 



' "Carrying squash (round things) on the head," the father of the Koyemci. The name is characteris- 

 tically ambiguous, referring both to the knobs on the mask and the squash seeds in the knobs. All the 

 Koyemci are called Molanhaktu in songs and prayers. Koyemci is merely a nickname. They are distin- 

 guished by name, Molanhaktu a wan atcu, molanhaktu a wan pekwin, molanhaktu ocotsi, etc. 



^ The ceremony no longer takes place at this spring, which is at the foot of Corn Mountain, and at the 

 base of the $akima, but at Ayayakya, on the west side of Ifakima Canyon. (Seep. 712 for the names o( 

 tlie springs visited.) 



