The Coming of the Brothers Ánahoho and the Runners of the Kâ´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 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 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 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
Introductory
The Survival of Early Zuñi Traits
During the earlier years of my life with the Zuñi Indians of western-central New Mexico, from the autumn of 1879 to the winter of 1881—before access to their country had been rendered easy by the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad,—they remained, as regards their social and religious institutions and customs and their modes of thought, if not of daily life, the most archaic of the Pueblo or Aridian peoples. They still continue to be, as they have for centuries been, the most highly developed, yet characteristic and representative of all these people.
In fact, it is principally due to this higher development by the Zuñi, than by any of the other Pueblos, of the mytho-sociologic system distinctive in some measure of them all at the time of the Spanish conquest of the southwest, that they have maintained so long and so much more completely than any of the others the primitive characteristics of the Aridian phase of culture; this despite the fact that, being the