Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths

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Author

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900

Title

Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448

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Produced by Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Zuni mythology

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48342

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48342

Release Date

February 23, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OUTLINES OF ZUÑI CREATION MYTHS [321] — CONTENTS [323]
2. 2.INTRODUCTORY — THE SURVIVAL OF EARLY ZUÑI TRAITS. — OUTLINE OF SPANISH-ZUÑI HISTORY. — OUTLINE OF PRISTINE ZUÑI HISTORY. — OUTLINE OF ZUÑI MYTHO-SOCIOLOGIC ORGANIZATION. — GENERAL EXPLANATIONS RELATIVE TO THE TEXT.
3. 3.MYTHS [379] [8] — THE GENESIS OF THE WORLDS, OR THE BEGINNING OF NEWNESS. — THE GENESIS OF MEN AND THE CREATURES. — THE GESTATION OF MEN AND THE CREATURES. — THE FORTHCOMING FROM EARTH OF THE FOREMOST OF MEN. — THE BIRTH FROM THE SEA OF THE TWAIN DELIVERERS OF MEN. — THE BIRTH AND DELIVERY OF MEN AND THE CREATURES. — THE CONDITION OF MEN WHEN FIRST INTO THE WORLD OF DAYLIGHT BORN. — THE ORIGIN OF PRIESTS AND OF KNOWLEDGE. — THE ORIGIN OF THE RAVEN AND THE MACAW, TOTEMS OF WINTER AND SUMMER. — THE ORIGIN AND NAMING OF TOTEM-CLANS AND CREATURE KINDS, AND THE DIVISION AND NAMING OF SPACES AND THINGS. — THE ORIGIN OF THE COUNCILS OF SECRECY OR SACRED BROTHERHOODS. — THE UNRIPENESS AND INSTABILITY OF THE WORLD WHEN STILL YOUNG. — THE HARDENING OF THE WORLD, AND THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF MEN. — THE BEGINNING OF THE SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, AND THE SECOND TARRYING OF MEN. — THE LEARNING OF WAR, AND THE THIRD TARRYING. — THE MEETING OF THE PEOPLE OF DEW, AND THE FOURTH TARRYING. — THE GENERATION OF THE SEED OF SEEDS, OR THE ORIGIN OF CORN. — THE RENEWAL OF THE SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. — THE CHOOSING OF SEEKERS FOR SIGNS OF THE MIDDLE. — THE CHANGE-MAKING SIN OF THE BROTHER AND SISTER. — THE BIRTH OF THE OLD-ONES OR ANCIENTS OF THE K´KÂ. — THE RENEWAL OF THE GREAT JOURNEY, AND THE SUNDERING OF THE TRIBES OF MEN. — THE ORIGIN OF DEATH BY DYING, AND THE ABODE OF SOULS AND THE K´KÂ. — THE LOSS OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN CLANS. — THE SAVING OF THE FATHER-CLANS. — THE AWAITING OF THE LOST CLANS. — THE STRAYING OF K‘YÄK´LU, AND HIS PLAINT TO THE WATER-FOWL. — HOW THE DUCK, HEARING, WAS FAIN TO GUIDE K‘YÄK´LU. — HOW THE RAINBOW-WORM BORE K‘YÄK´LU TO THE PLAIN OF K´‘HLUËLANE. — THE TARRYING OF K‘YÄK´LU IN THE PLAIN, AND HIS DISMAY. — HOW THE DUCK FOUND THE LAKE OF THE DEAD AND THE GODS OF THE K´KÂ. — HOW THE GODS OF THE K´K COUNSELLED THE DUCK. — HOW BY BEHEST OF THE DUCK THE K´YEMÄSHI SOUGHT K‘YÄK´LU TO CONVEY HIM TO THE LAKE OF THE DEAD. — HOW THE K´YEMÄSHI BORE K‘YÄK´LU TO THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS. — THE COUNCIL OF THE K´KÂ, AND THE INSTRUCTION OF K‘YÄK´LU BY THE GODS. — THE INSTRUCTION OF THE K´YEMÄSHI BY K‘YÄK´LU. — HOW THE K´YEMÄSHI BORE K‘YÄK´LU TO HIS PEOPLE. — THE RETURN OF K‘YÄK´LU, AND HIS SACRED INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PEOPLE. — THE ENJOINING OF THE K‘YÄK´LU ÁMOSI, AND THE DEPARTURE OF K‘YÄK´LU AND THE OLD-ONES. — THE COMING OF THE BROTHERS ÁNAHOHO AND THE RUNNERS OF THE K´KÂ. — THE DISPATCHING OF THE SOULS OF THINGS TO THE SOULS OF THE DEAD. — THE RENEWAL OF THE GREAT JOURNEYING AND OF THE SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. — THE WARNING-SPEECH OF THE GODS, AND THE UNTAILING OF MEN. — THE ORIGIN OF THE TWIN GODS OF WAR AND OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE BOW. — THE DOWNFALL OF HÁN‘HLIPIŊK‘YA, AND THE SEARCH ANEW FOR THE MIDDLE. — THE WARS WITH THE BLACK PEOPLE OF THE HIGH BUILDINGS AND WITH THE ANCIENT WOMAN OF THE K‘YÁKWEINA AND OTHER K´KÂKWE. — THE ADOPTION OF THE BLACK PEOPLE, AND THE DIVISION OF THE CLANS TO SEARCH FOR THE MIDDLE. — THE NORTHWARD EASTERN JOURNEY OF THE WINTER CLANS. — THE SOUTHWARD EASTERN JOURNEY OF THE SUMMER CLANS. — THE EASTWARD MIDDLE JOURNEY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE. — THE SETTLEMENT OF ZUÑI-LAND, AND THE BUILDING OF THE SEVEN GREAT TOWNS THEREIN. — THE REUNION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE WITH THE SUMMER AND SEED PEOPLES. — THE GREAT COUNCIL OF MEN AND THE BEINGS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE TRUE MIDDLE. — THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FATHERS AND THEIR TABERNACLE AT HÁLONAWAN OR THE ERRING-PLACE OF THE MIDDLE. — THE FLOODING OF THE TOWNS, AND THE BUILDING OF THE CITY OF SEED ON THE MOUNTAIN. — THE STAYING OF THE FLOOD BY SACRIFICE OF THE YOUTH AND MAIDEN, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HÁLONA ÍTIWANA ON THE TRUE MIDDLE. — THE CUSTOM OF TESTING THE MIDDLE IN THE MIDDLE TIME. — THE CHERISHING OF THE CORN MAIDENS AND THEIR CUSTOM AS OF OLD. — THE MURMURING OF THE FOOLISH ANENT THE CUSTOM OF THE CORN MAIDENS. — THE COUNCIL OF THE FATHERS THAT THE PERFECTION OF THE CUSTOM BE ACCOMPLISHED. — THE OBSERVANCE OF THE ‘HLÁHEKWE CUSTOM, OR DANCE OF THE CORN MAIDENS. — THE SENDING OF THE TWAIN PRIESTS OF THE BOW, THAT THEY BESPEAK THE AID OF PAÍYATUMA AND HIS FLUTE PEOPLE. — THE FINDING OF PAÍYATUMA, AND HIS CUSTOM OF THE FLUTE. — THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE COMING OF PAÍYATUMA AND HIS PEOPLE OF THE FLUTE. — THE COMING OF PAÍYATUMA AND HIS DANCE OF THE FLUTE. — THE SACRILEGE OF THE YOUTHS OF THE DANCE, AND THE FLEETING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN. — THE MOURNING FOR LOSS OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN. — THE SEEKING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN BY THE EAGLE. — THE SEEKING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN BY THE FALCON. — THE SEEKING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN BY THE RAVEN. — THE BESEECHING OF PAÍYATUMA, AND HIS REVERSAL OF THE PEOPLE'S EVIL. — THE SEEKING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN BY PAÍYATUMA. — THE FINDING OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN IN SUMMERLAND. — THE RETURN OF THE MAIDENS OF CORN WITH PAÍYATUMA. — THE PRESENTATION OF THE PERFECTED SEED TO THE FATHERS OF MEN, AND THE PASSING OF THE MAIDENS OF SEED. — THE INSTRUCTIONS OF PAÍYATUMA FOR THE ORDINANCES AND CUSTOMS OF THE CORN PERFECTING. — THE FINAL INSTRUCTIONS OF PAÍYATUMA, AND HIS PASSING.

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