930 ZUNI KATCINAS (eth. ann. 47 



But over there everything is dry. Thereisnot adrop of rain. There 

 is no hghtning and not a mark in the sky. It is dry, and the sky is 

 all clear and shining. There was nothing growing and there were no 

 animals. We are starving. We came out to look around (hunt) and we 

 thought we would go back home, but then we thought that maybe we 

 had better come here. Then we came to a damp place and grassy, 

 and we thought we had better come in and see you before we went 

 back home." He said this so kindly, but even as he spoke he told of 

 the great trouble he had had. Everyone listened to him with sym- 

 pathy because he spoke so kindly. Then right away the katcina 

 maidens liked him and Pautiwa also Uked him, so he said, "I am 

 glad you have come. You have had much trouble to find a damp 

 place. Now you have come to a damp place. You were looking for 

 deer, and now you have come to where the deer are. You shall stay 

 here a few daj^s, and then you shall go out and look around and you 

 shall take the deer and rain back to the east with you." They had 

 not sent out the deer and the rain because they knew of Citsuka and 

 they wanted him to come to them. 



Then he stayed there for a few days. Right away Pautiwa's 

 daughter loved him and that day he married Pautiwa's daughter. 

 After he was married he went out with Kwelele to hunt around the 

 village of the katcinas. He brought in many deer. He stayed 

 for four days at the village of the katcinas, and then he said to 

 Pautiwa and to his wife, "Now I have stayed here long enough. I 

 can not live here. I must live at Cipapolima because I belong to the 

 society people. I shall only come here once a year. You will meet 

 me at Itiwan-a and I shall come to ^nsit you. The people at Itiwan-a 

 think that you bring the new year, but I am really the one who 

 brings the new year from the east. You will meet me in Itiwana, 

 and take me with you to see my wife. That is the only time that I 

 shall see my wife." Pautiwa was very pleased, because he had sent 

 for Citsidja to come. That was why he had kept back the rain and 

 the deer and that way finally got hun to come. And now his son-in- 

 law promised him that he would come each year to bring the New 

 Year from the east, and Pautiwa promised him that he would meet 

 him each year at Itiwana and bring him to the village of the katcinas 

 to see his wife. So after he had staj^ed for four days at the Sacred 

 Lake he went back with Kwelele to Cipapolima. 



That is why Citsuka only comes at the winter solstice. He comes 

 to bring the New Year and then Pautiwa comes to meet him and takes 

 him to see his wdfe. He stays there for four days. And that is why 

 Citsuka's society, the Great Fire Society, always sing and drum for 

 them when they come to make the New Year. And that is why the 

 people always think that the New Year comes from the east. And 

 when babies are born they think of them as coming from the east, too. 



