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Title: Zuñi fetiches;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Subjects: Zuni Indians -- Religion. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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))riests (A shiwa-ni) of ZiiiTi that not only these, but all Iriu- fetieiies,are cither a(;tual i)etrifactious of (he animals they rei)re.sent, (>r weresiuli originally. Ipon this siipjiosition is founded the following tradi-tion, taken, as are others to follow, from a remaikable mythologic ei>ic,which I lia\( entitled the Zufii Iliad. Tin: ZIM ILIAD. Although oral, this e;>ic is of great length, metrical, rythmical evenin jiarts, and lilled with archaic e.\i)rcssions nowhere to be found in themodern Zuni. It is to be icgrelted that the original diction cannot herebe ))reselve(l. 1 ha\( been unalile, howevei, to rec(n(I literally even))oitious of this piece of aboriginal literature, a.-, it is jealously guardedby the priests, who are its keej)crs, and is i)nl)licly rei)eated by tiiem onlyonce in four years, and then oidy in the jiresence of the priests of thevarious orders. As a member of one of the latter, 1 was enabled to BUREAU OF F.THr.r:l(f-\Y pyxmo Kn^m. repofh i«3! p.
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I Sin^i: * 5:n Iwii ITal* PREY GOD FETICHES (•■SiNn) Till. Zr\I IIJAI). 13 li.stcii 10 one loiirlli of it (Inline tlic last recitation, wliicli occiiried inFebruary, 1881. 1 tberefore give mere abstracts, mostly furnislied frommemory, and jjreatly condcnseil, hut pronounced coirect, so far as theygo, by one of the above-mentioned priests. TIIK IIRYlNttOF TIIK WORLII. In tiie days wlien all was new, men lived in the four caverns of thelower regions (A-wi-ten t(5-huthl na-k\vin=the *Four Wombs of theWorld). In the lowermost one of these men first came to know of theirexistence. It was dark, and as men increased they began to crowd oneanother and were very unhappy. Wise men came int<i existence amongthem, who.se children supplicated them that they should obtain deliver-ance from such a condition of life. It was then that the Holder of the Paths of Life, the Sun-father,created from his own being two children, who fell to earth for the goodof all beings (r-anam iitch-pi-ah-koa). Thezuifetiches00cush

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