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priesthood to fast, to pray, and in other ways to induce 
rain, insuring the success of the crops and thereby the 
general happiness of the people. 
At death they are succeeded by one of the secondary 
priests associated with them, usually a relative, brother 
or son. Because the office does at times pass to a son 
the position does not belong to a definite clan. The 
Pekwin however is an exception since he is chosen from 
the Dogwood clan by the heads of the fraternities. 
He is the more active of the priests in the control of the 
ceremonies. He determines the calendar by observing 
the place of the rising and setting of the sun, and pro- 
claims accordingly the time when the ceremonies shall 
be held. 
The priests of the bow havea representative in each 
fraternity, but they together constitute a semi-priest- 
hood with an elder and younger head priest. These two 
are the representatives of the war gods. To be eligible 
as a bow priest the candidate must have taken an 
enemy’s scalp. These war priests are connected with 
the thunder and are therefore directly concerned with 
weather control. 
Every Zuni man has in his boyhood been initiated 
into an order or fraternity, which includes, therefore, the 
entire adult male population. At this initiation the 
boy has as a sponsor the husband of the woman who 
was present at his birth. The boy becomes associated 
with the one of the six groups, into which all Zui men 
are divided, to which this sponsor belongs. Each of 
these groups is associated with a kiva or assembly room 
of a somewhat sacred character. These organized 
groups of the Zuni, directed and presided over by the 
priesthood, perform the ceremonies and carry on the 
religious activities of the village. 
