Through our unknown Southwest, the wonderland of the United States-- little known and unappreciated-- the home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest ranger and the the lure of the painted desert . You can see among the cave dwell-ings where earthquakes have tumbled down wholemasses of front rooms; and both Moki and Papagohave traditions of the heavens raining fire. It has been suggested by scientists that the cliffswere cities of refuge in times of war, the caves andGreat Houses were permanent dwellings. This isinferred because there were no kivas or templesamong the cliff ru
Through our unknown Southwest, the wonderland of the United States-- little known and unappreciated-- the home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest ranger and the the lure of the painted desert . You can see among the cave dwell-ings where earthquakes have tumbled down wholemasses of front rooms; and both Moki and Papagohave traditions of the heavens raining fire. It has been suggested by scientists that the cliffswere cities of refuge in times of war, the caves andGreat Houses were permanent dwellings. This isinferred because there were no kivas or templesamong the cliff ruins, and many exist among thecaves and Great Houses. Gushing and Hough andI think two or three others regard Casa Grande asa temple or great community house, where thetribes of the Southwest repaired semi-annually fortheir religious ceremonies and theatricals. We moderns express our emotions through therhythm of song, of dance, of orchestra, of play, ofopera, of art. The Indian had his pictographs onthe rocks for art, and his pottery and weaving toexpress his craftsmanship; but the rest of his artisticnature was expressed chiefly by religious ceremonialor theatrical dance, similar to the old miracle plays. CASA GRANDE AND THE GILA 247 of the Middle Ages. For Instance, the Indianshave not only a tradition of a great flood, but of amaiden who was drawn from the Underworld by herlover playing a flute; and the Flute Clans celebratethis by their flute dance. The yearly cleansing ofthe springs was as great a religious ceremony as theIsraelites cleansing of personal Impurity. Eachfamily belonged to a clan, and each clan had a reli-gious lodge, secret as any modern fraternal order. The mask dances of the Southwest are much mis-understood by white people. We see In them onlyv/hat Is grotesque or perhaps obscene. Yet the spir-its of evil and the spirits of goodness are representedunder the Indians masked dances, just as the oldmiracle plays represented Faith, Hope, Charity,Lust, Greed, e
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