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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



]eTH. ANN. 47 



This many are the days 

 Since some evil thing 

 Made our child sick. 

 His breath failed. 

 5 Because of this from among all our 

 fathers, 

 Life-giving priests, 

 Life-giving pekwins, 

 Life-giving bow priests; 

 All the society priests, 

 10 Society pekwins. 

 Society bow priests. 

 Unexpectedly 

 The divine ones chose me. 



IS Their daylight children 



Revealed themselves to you, 



And choosing me, 



You let me know. 



Taking prayer meal, 

 20 Far off to the east. 



With |)rayers, I made my road go 

 fortti. 



Where our fathers' road comes in ^^ 



25 I passed them on their road. 

 Standing facing them, 

 I offered them prayer meal. 

 The divine ones' road preceded; 



30 Their road preceding. 



Following them 



Hither with prayers. 



We brought our roads 

 35 Into their daylight children's rain- 

 filled rooms,2* 



The divine ones brought their road. 



They sat down quietly 

 And we of the daylight 

 40 Met one another. 

 Our prayer meal, 

 Shells," 

 Riches, 



On which I had breathed our pray- 

 ers, 



le'si te'wanan-e 

 ho"na-wan le'apEunan-e 

 i'mat kwa'tik we'aEaIja 

 ya'nhakun i''natina 

 5 yam a"'te'on a'lja le' yam a''tateu 



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



o'naya-'naka pe'kwi-we 



o'na ya^'nalfa a-'pi'ta'ci'wan'i 



le' ti'tfa a-'ciwan'i 

 10 ti'ifa pe'kwi'we 



ti'lja a''pi'ia'ci'wan'i 



te'kwant te'atij3a 



Ea'pin a''ho'i 



yam a'nawana-'wapa 

 15 te'Eohanan an tea' we 



liom ya'nhtona 



hom a'nawana 



hom yu'yaEana"waj5a 



ha'lawo-tinan i-'leaua 

 20 le'hok" te'luwankwin ta"na 



le'wus a'lfii 



ho' o'neal kwai"iRalfa 



yam a-'tatcu 



a''wan o'neal i'nakwi 

 25 a''wona-e'latena 



ya'nikto'nan ye-'hina 



ho' ha'lawo'tinan a-'tea'upa 



Ea'pin a"'ho'i 



o'neal e"kuna''wapa 

 30 a'wan o'neal e'kwikuna 



e'la ya'lu 



Ealhok" ?;e'wus a'^fa 



hon o'neal a"'Eanapka 



yam te'kohanan tca'we 

 35 a'wan Ka'cima le'li'tokwi 



Ea'pin a"'ho'i 



o'neal kwa'toEiina 



i-'tinan i''laEiEapa 



^e'Eohanana 

 40 hon i-'yona-e'latena. 



yam ha'lawo-tinan'e 



lo-"o 



u'tenank-e 



yam lie'wusu ya'nula'kona 



" The eastern ro.id. The Beast Godc dwell at Cipapolima, in the e:»sl. All curing rituals are oriented 

 toward the eiist, as all katcina are oriented toward the southwest. 



^ The house of the patient. 



'" The prayer meal contains bits of ground shell or turquoise and a few threads pulled from the garment 

 oifered to the medicine man in payment tor his services in curing. 



