MALLERY. | RAIN AND LIGHTNING. TO1 
RAIN. 
Fig. 1147.—From Copway, loc. cit., represents 
rain, cloudy. 
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Fig. 1147.—Rain. Ojibwa. 
The gesture sign for rain is illustrated in Fig. 1002. The pic- 
tograph, Fig. 1148, reported as found in 
New Mexico, by Lieut. Simpson, in Ex. 
Doe. No. 64, 31st Congress, Ist session, 1850, 
p- 9, is said to represent Montezuma’s adju- 
tants sounding a blast to him for rain. The 
small character inside the curve which repre- 
sents the sky, corresponds with the gestur- 
ing hand, but may be the rain cloud appear- 
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Fig. 1148.—Rain. Pueblo. ing. 
The Moki drawing for rain, i. e., a cloud from which the drops are fall- 
ing; is given in Fig. 1149, in six variants taken from a petroglyph at 
Oakley Springs. 
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Fig. 1149.—Rain. Moki. 
Edkins (/) gives Fig. 1150 as the Chinese character for rain. It 
is a picture of rain falling from the clouds. He adds, p. 
155: 
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NES Rain was anciently without the upper line, and instead of the ver- 
tical line in the middle there were four, but all shorter. Above 
Gets meRai each of them and within the concave was a dot. These four dots 
Chinese. were raindrops, the four lines were the direction of their descent, 
and the concave was the firmament. 
LIGHTNING. 
Among the northern Indians of North America the concept of light- 
ning is included in that of thunder, and is represented by the thunder 
bird, see Chap. XTIv, sec. 2, supra. 
Fig. 1151 shows three ways in which lightning is represented by the 
Moki. They are copied from 
a petroglyph at Oakley 
Springs, Arizona. In the 
middle character the sky is 
shown, the changing direc- 
tion of the streak and clouds 
with rain falling. The part ee Wivbjananies Mest 
relating specially to the streak is portrayed in an Indian gesture sign 
