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ZUNI RITUAL POETRY 



[ETH. ANN. 74 



125 May you be blessed with light. 



To this the father replies : 



Now indeed 



Our fathers' medicines 



To one another we give. 

 130 Our fathers' life-giving breath, 



Their breath of old age, 



(We give to one another.) 



When, among all the corn priests' 

 ladder descending children, 



Some evil causes sickness, 

 135 When tlie spirit fails, 



Tlien, desiring their fathers' long 

 life, 



Desiring their old age, 



Desiring their medicine, 

 140 Among all their fatliers. 



Society priests. 



Society pekwins. 



Society bow priests, 



Tliey will look about. 

 145 Even though you do not know of it. 



If the divine ones choose you. 



When they summon yovi 



You shall not think to refuse. 

 150 With prayer meal. 



With shell, 



With rich clothing. 



They will bind ypu fast. 



Then seeking these wherever they 

 are, 

 155 Even though the night be danger- 

 ous, 



Following your fathers. 



Even to all the places where you 



did not think to enter, 

 Seeking these, 

 160 Living for their thoughts, 

 Thus shall you live." 



125 lorn te'Eohanan a'niktciatu. 



ma' la'Jfiman'te 



yam a''tatcu 



a''wan a'kwan'e 



hon i'yan hai''te(fa 

 130 hon a-'tatc i'lapona 



a-'wan o'naya'naka pi"nan'e 



a'wan la'ciajfa pi"nane 



le' to'wa ci'wan an le'tsilon pa'ni'- 

 nan tca'we 



kwa'tik we'aEa jja 

 135 tse"mak i''natina 



yam a''tatcu 



a"'wan o'naya'nalja, a'ntecemana 



a''wan la'ciaJfa a'ntecemana 



a"'wan a'kwan a'ntecemana 

 140 le' j'am a''tatcu 



ti'lfa a'ciwan'i 



ti'lfa pe'kwiwe 



ti'ka a''pi'la"ciwan'i 



a-'wan u'lapnaEan-a. 

 145 tekwant te'atipa 



ka'pin a''ho'i 



hoi torn a'nawana 



to'm a'ntecematina'Eapa 



kwa to' e'lamana tse"ma'cukwa 

 1.50 ha'lawo'tinan a'lfii 



lo'' alfa 



u'tenan a'lfii 



lorn j'a'tena-tsu'meEanaKapa 



lu'kni a-'iapana 



155 hoi te'lialfii a'lanapte 



jam a''tatcu 



a-'wan e'la yii'lu 



hoi yam kwa kwa'totun te'ame^a 



te"a'konatapte 

 lu'kni a''fepana 

 160 lu'kni a-'wan tse"makwin a'lfii 

 lo' ho"i te'Eiin-a 



' Dictated by a member of the Cactus Society. The remaining prayers were withheld. 



