446 ZUNI CREATION MYTHS. (ethann. 13 



niiiidens of the Water kiu '■hlimna of the Flute maitleus for the flute 

 ciistoui, and after, shall lead Maidens of the Seed 'hlimna of the Mother- 

 maidens, as we have this day led the Mother maidens themselves unto 

 thy presence; and as I have this day elevated, offered to the spaces 

 and given ye from them, the seed, each kind, so shall they, in after 

 time, give ye the seed, that ye sanctify it, ye and the good Ka'ka, for 

 the people and the plantings of the spring time to come. 



"For look ye, and hearken! Ye loved the custom of the Maidens, 

 whence verily ye had life; yet amongst ye some held not preciously their 

 persons, heuce them ye shall see no more save in the persons of thine 

 own maidens '■hlimna of them, or in dreams or visions like thereto. 

 For, lo! they have departed, since the children of men would seek to 

 change the sustaining blessedness of their flesli into suffering humanity 

 which sustains not but is sustained, and they would perish — even as the 

 maidenhood of thy daughters must perish — -and in the loving of men 

 and the cherishing of men's children, lo ! they, even they, would forget 

 the cherishing of their beautiful seed-growing! 



"Lo! as a mother of her own being and blood gives life and suste- 

 nance to her offspring, so have these given unto ye — for ye are their 

 children — the means of life and sustenance. The Mother-maidens are 

 gone, but lo ! the seed of each is with ye ! From the beginning of the 

 newly come sun each year, ye shall treasure their gifts throughout the 

 Moon Nameless, the Moon of the Sacred Fire and the Earth-whitening, 

 the Moon of the Snow-broken Boughs, the Moon of the Snowless Path- 

 ways, the Moon of the Greater Sand-driving Storms, and the Moon of 

 the Lesser Sand-driving Storms, shall ye treasure these gifts, with 

 them, making perfect, by means of sacred observances of thy rites and 

 the rites of the Ka'ka, the Seed of Seeds. Then in the new soil which 

 the winter winds, hail, snow and water have brought unto ye the 

 possessors of the niiietone, ye shall bury in perfect order as I instruct 

 ye, these gifts, their flesli, as ye bury the flesh of the dead. And as the 

 flesh of the finished dead decays, so shall this flesh decay ; but as from 

 the flesh of the finished dead, the other-being (soul) iu the night light 

 of the Ka'ka springs forth, so from this flesh shall spring forth in the 

 day light of the Sun-father, new being, like to the first, yet in sevenfold 

 amplitude. 



Of this food shall ye ever cat and be bereft of hunger. Behold! 

 beautiful and perfect were the Maidens, and as this their flesh, derived 

 from them in beauty and by beautiful custom is pertect and beautiful, 

 so shall it confer on those nourished of it, perfection of person, and 

 beauty, like to that of those from whom it was derived, so long as like 

 them their customs are those of Maidens." 



THE FINAL INSTRUCTIONS OF PAIYATUMA, AND HIS PASSING. 



"And now will I teach ye the customs and song of the planting,'" said 

 Paiyatuma; and then first he sat him down and smoked the cigarette 



