iS95-] 425 [Fewkes. 
the earth goddesses of Avlioni I recognize the following, some of 
whom are undoubtedly the same beings under different names, 
expressing different characteristics. 
ICokyaniouqti, Spider woman, sometimes called mana (maid). 
IIahaiwiiqt% Old woman. 
Two Calakomanas^ Corn maids. 
Tdioajyofiturnsi, Sand (earth) altar woman. 
Lakonemana^ Maid of Lalakonti. ^ 
Huzrilwuqti, Woman of hard substances, coral, shell, etc. 
Associated with the western home of the sun. 
Miiyimodmana^ Mother of germs. 
The personage, Talatamsi {tala^ light, tAum^l^ woman), would 
seem to belong to the sky goddesses. 
If I am right in my theory that the Tusayan mythology and 
ritual has grown up by composition, and by incorporation of 
different cults, we have a ready explanation of the reappearance, 
under different names, of the same earth goddess. As each 
people joine<l the nucleus it brought its peculiar cultus, and we 
could hardly suppose it would drop its nomenclature of the gods 
even when the characters of its divinities were practically the 
same as those already worshipped. Somewhat parallel conditions 
may be traced in Egyptian mythologies, which were highly instruc- 
tive in connection with Tusayan myth and ritual. 
As we have in the Wuvmtcbnti an abbreviated Naacnaiya^ 
there are consequently many similarities between the two per- 
formances. In main events and the societies which celebrate 
them the}^ are identical, but there are many episodes in the 
elaborate w^hich are absent in the abbreviated presentation. 
This variation is mainly due to the introduction in the former 
of the initiation of the novices, but in essentials they are the 
same, and descriptions of the rites in N'aacnaiya may be relied 
upon as true also of the Wilwutcimti. This likewise holds true 
of the dress of participants, and the decoration of their bodies. 
The patrols and processions of the priesthoods through the 
villages were identical, so that I have not thought it necessary to 
repeat my descriptions of these except where there are important 
1 Possibly Muinzrautnana, should likewise be regarded an eartli goddess, the same 
as Tiiwapontumsi. The sand-picture and effigy of the Lakonematia may be seen by 
consulting my account of the Lalakonti, op. cit. For statuette of Mamzraumana 
see account of Mamzrauti. 
