268 NAVAJO CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS. 
great horror. All in the line having gone through this ceremony the 
crowd of spectators sprinkled the masks in the same manner. I was 
requested to sprinkle them, and at the same time was specially in- 
structed to run the lines up the cheeks. This closed the ceremony of 
initiation. The boys were then permitted to go around at will and 
look at the masks and enter the lodge and view the sand painting. 
Hasjelti and Hostjoboard returned to the lodge, carrying their masks 
in their hands. 
About an hour after the ceremony of the initiation of the children a 
large buffalo robe was spread on the avenue with its head to the east, 
around which a circle of some hundred feet in diameter was formed by 
horsemen and pedestrians who gathered, eager to witness the outdoor 
ceremony. The theurgist and invalid were seated outside of the lodge, 
south of the entrance. The deities personated on this occasion were 
the gods Hasjelti and Taadotjaii, and the goddess Yebahdi. Hasjelti 
wore black velvet and silver ornaments, with red silk searf around the 
waist. Taadotjaii was nude, his body being painted a reddish color. 
The limbs and body were zigzagged with white, representing lightning, 
and he carried in his left hand a bow beautifully decorated with light- 
ning and downy breast feathers of the eagle, and in his right hand a 
gourd rattle devoid of ornamentation. Yebahdi wore the ordinary 
squaw’s dress and moccasins, with many silver ornaments, and a large 
blanketaround her shoulders touching the ground. Hasjelti approached 
dancing, and sprinkled meal over the buffalo robe, and the invalid stood 
upon the robe. Hasjelti, followed by Zaadoltjaii, again entered the 
circle and sprinkled meal upon the robe. The goddess Yebahdi follow- 
ing, stood within the circle some 20 feet from the robe on the east side 
and facing west. Hasjelti, amidst hoots and antics, sprinkled meal 
upon the invalid, throwing both his hands upward. Immediately Zaa- 
doltjaii, with arrow in the left hand and rattle in the right, threw both 
hands up over the invalid amidst hoots and antics. They then passed 
to Yebahdi, who holds with both hands a basket containing the two 
yellow ears of corn wrapped with pine twigs that were used in the chil- 
dren’s ceremony, and indulged in similar antics over the goddess. As 
each representative of the gods threw up his hands she raised her 
basket high above and in front of her head. Hasjelti, together with 
Zaadoltjaii and Yebahdi, then passed around within the circle to the 
other three points of the compass. At each point Yebahdi took her 
position about 20 feet from the buffalo robe, when Hasjelti and Zaa- 
doltjaii repeated their performances over the invalid and then over 
Yebahdi each time she elevated the basket. The invalid then entered 
the lodge, followed by the representatives of the gods, who were careful 
to remove their masks before going in. The invalid sat on the eorn- 
stalk in the center of the sand painting, facing east. Zaadoltjaii 
stepped upon the painting, and taking the little medicine gourd from 
the hands of the rainbow goddess, dipped the cedar twig into the 
