Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . is. as a class, believe the Little Fire frater-nity to have originated with the Hopis and to have been introduced bythem into the Ashiwi ritual, they do not credit the order of Payatamuof this fraternity as coming from the Hopi Indians; 3et the two peo-ples ideas of the god of music are so similar that it is more thanprobable that he has been borrowed by one or the other. The Zufiilegend regarding the origin of the order of Payatamu is as follows: The. gods of war while strolling about the country som
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . is. as a class, believe the Little Fire frater-nity to have originated with the Hopis and to have been introduced bythem into the Ashiwi ritual, they do not credit the order of Payatamuof this fraternity as coming from the Hopi Indians; 3et the two peo-ples ideas of the god of music are so similar that it is more thanprobable that he has been borrowed by one or the other. The Zufiilegend regarding the origin of the order of Payatamu is as follows: The. gods of war while strolling about the country some 3 miles east of Zufii, wereattracted by very sweet music and they proceeded to learn its source. On approach-ing the mesa ShunteMaya they discovered that the music issued from a spring(bearing the same name as the mesa; and also Amitolan tepoula, rainbow covering ?•This Mexican is not allowed to observe the masked dances, but they occur in his house (when hemust absent himself), since he has left the home of the mother-in-law for a residence of his own. X *<f C^ C BUREAU OF AMEIV. ffi PLUME OFFERINGS MADE AT SHRINE OF PAlYATYAMO, GOD OF M HEUOTVPE CO., BOSTON. btevbnson] koshikwe 569 entrance) at the base of the mountain. Here they found Iayatamu playing on hisflute, while eight beautiful maidens ground corn and sang. On their return to the village the Gods of War told of their visit to Payatamuand of his beautiful music, and when the Little Fire fraternity was preparing fora ceremonial the director dispatched a member of the fraternity for EVyatamurequesting that he come and play his flute while their maidens ground god complied with the request, and remained four days and nights, accompany-ing on his (lute the maidens in their songs as they ground. On the fifth morninghe passed his flute to the lips of those present that the sacred breath might bedrawn from the flute, and then he departed for his home at ShuntekTaya. Again, when the Corn maidens were to da
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