702 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
as follows: Right hand elevated before and above the head, foretinger 
pointing upward, brought down with great rapidity with a sinuous, 
undulating motion, finger still extended diagonally downward toward 
the right. 
Fig. 1152 is a copy from a vase in the collection of relics of the an- 
cient builders of the southwest table lands in 
G the MS. Catalogue of Mr. Thomas V. Keam, 
QZ and represents the body of the mythic Um- 
tak-ina, the Thunder. This body is a rain 
cloud with thunder [lightning] darting through 
it, and is probably of ancient Moki workmanship. 
Fig. 1153, also from Keam’s MS., gives three other representations of 
the Mokicharacters for lightning. 
The middle one shows the light- 
ning sticks which are worked by 
the hands of the dancers. 
Fig. 1154 also represents light- 
ning, taken by Mr. W. H. Jack- 
son, photographer of the late U. 
S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey, from 
the decorated walls of an estufa 
in the Pueblo de Jemez, New 
Mexico. The former is blunt, for 
harmless, and the latter termi- WGe MES IB AREI ES BUGIS 
nates in an arrow or spear point, for destructive or fatal lightning. 
Connected with this topic is the following extract from Virgil’s 
AMneis, Lib. vii, 429: 
Fig. 1152.—Lightning. Moki. 
Tres imbris torti radios, tres nubis aquose 
Addiderant, rutili tres ignis et alitis austri. 
The “radii” are the forks or spikes by which lightning is designated, 
especially on medals. It 
consisted of twelve 
wreathed spikes or darts 
extended like the radii of 
a circle. The wings de- 
note the lightning’s rapid 
motion and the spikes or 
darts its penetrating 
quality. The four differ- 
Fig. 1154.—Lightning. Pueblo. ent kinds of spikes refer to 
the four seasons. The “tres imbristorti radii” or the three spikes of. 
hail, are the winter when hail storms abound. The “tres nubis aquose 
radii,” the three spikes of a watery cloud, denote the spring. The 
“tres rutili ignis radii,” the three spikes of sparkling fire, are the sum- 
mer when lightning is frequent and the ‘“ tres alitis austri radii,” or 
the three spikes of winged wind, are for autumn with its many wind 
storms. 
