1895.] 447 [Fewkes. 
Tataukyam^ (in N'aacnaiya), singing and pointing with the ears 
of corn in a sarcastic fashion to the men who came to the edge 
of the home terraces. . . . The men pretended to be angry 
and poured water on the women, throwing it promiscuously, as 
a general thing, but in many instances particular young women 
were singled out, chased, and douched, and thus from house to 
house the women continued their serenade. About one half the 
jars emptied upon them contained urine, most of which had been 
standing long enough to decompose partially, and the stench in 
the courts was almost overpowering, although a stiff gale was 
blowing. 
'' A half dozen of the young women were chased l)y the men 
(no woman threw any liquid or took })art, except the celebrants), 
and these were either thrown down, not violently, or laid down, 
when overtaken, and when as many as a dozen men had sur- 
. rounded one woman, they rubbed filth in her hair, on her face, 
over the upper part of her bosom and neck, etc." In connection 
with these proceedings other events of the ISfaaaiaiya (p. 210) 
may help us to decide whether we have in them survivals of 
promiscuous intercourse in public, or phallic rites of a modified 
kind. This latter nasty drama was thus explained. " During the 
Manizrauti celebration in September, these two WOAoutcimtlX 
were specially active in drenching and besmearing the young 
maids, and these two Horn sentries called themselves the friends 
of two of the maids who were liberally drenched at that time." 
I have no doubt that in these episodes of both jVaacnaiya 
axx^ Manizrauti we have a modified survival of an old Saturnalia, 
and the symbol of the vulva still borne in both JSfaactiaiya and 
Wihciitcimti indicates that they were and still are to a measure 
phallic rites. 
According to legendary history the relationship between the 
Wuwutcimtu and Mamzrautu are as follows. 
These societies claim to have descended from no less a mytho- 
logical personage than Taioioa^ a sun deity who met a maid in 
the underworld and drew her to him by inhalation through a 
flute. He took her to TaioaM (sunhouse), and she bore him 
many children. To one of his sons he gave the mysteries of the 
WunrntCimtd, and to one of his daughters those of MatnzrautiX. 
These ancestral persons erected then- respective altars in the 
