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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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there is the Little Fire Fraternity (MatkeSannakwe), the Rattlesnake, Cactus, Mythologic, Games(Showekwe), and Struck-by-Lightning fraternities. One of the most powerful of all the fraternities is thatof the Order of the Sacred Bozv. This was organizedby the Gods of War, and is to-day the most powerful ofall Zuni organizations. It is the one to which Lieut.Frank H. Cushing succeeded in gaining admisson, andwhich led to his speedily gaining the marvelous intimacywith their secret customs, ceremonials and myths, which,so entrancingly, he gave to the world. It was long pre-sided over by Naiuchi, that strong, inflexible, incorrupt-ible Indian, a true leader, statesman, philospher andfriend, who was the strangest mixture of modern wisdomand ancient, deep-rooted superstition. While I have thus barely enumerated the fraternitiesof the Zunis, I have given but the merest suggestion of aglimpse at the complicated mythology they incorporate,the tradition and history they enshrine, the origin and
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PAHOS, OR PRAYER STICKS. The Religion of the Indians 207 beauty of their songs, and the infinite variety of theirdances and ceremonials. Of their masks alone one mightwrite enough to fill a book as large as this, and, simplyto describe, in ordinary newspaper-reporter fashion, theiropen air ceremonials would fill another. Then, what about their altars, their various fetiches— not connected with hunting,— of their mill — which,to each organization, is as important and sacred as isthe Cross to the Christians,— their clowns or Delight-makers (as Bandelier so appropriately called them) ? Then the symbolism connected with it all — who canabsorb it, or realize it? Everything is symbolized.Soap-suds are made in a bowl of water to represent snow-clouds, while the priest prays for cold rains and snows.Downy feathers from the eagles breast are used by thescores of thousands in their prayers to symbolize that, asthe eagle soars (by means of these feathers), into thevery eye of the Sun,

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