[165] “Pueblo-Indian Folk-Tales, Probably of Spanish Provenience,” by Elsie Clews Parsons. No. 7, “Forgetting the Song; Inside the Lizard” (_Ácoma_). _The Journal of American Folk-Lore_, April-June, 1918 (Vol. XXXI, No. 120), pp. 225, 226. [166] Elsie Clews Parsons, _op. cit._, pp. 219, 220. [167] Collected by Miss Matilda Allen for Professor Espinosa. [168] Presumably because Pascual did all the work. [169] Because he had been told to do everything that others did. [170] “_No señor, no se dan, se venden._” [171] “_No señor, no cresen, las gaïnas los ponen._” [172] _El Palacio_ (Paul A. F. Walter, Editor), Vol. XI, No. 11 (December 1, 1921), pp. 141, 142. [173] Fynn, _The American Indian as a Product of Environment_. [174] J. W. Powell, Introduction to F. W. Cushing, _Zuñi Folk-Tales_. [175] Franz Boas, _Mythology and Folk-Tales of North American Indians_, _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXVII (1914). [176] John R. Swanton, _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXIII, 1910. [177] Matilda Coxe Stevenson, “The Sía,” _Eleventh Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology. [178] Alexander suggests that the uncannily large earth-nesting spiders which abound in this region may have caused the spider to be called the Earth Goddess wherever it is considered a female. [179] There is a charming folk-tale of the sun myth in Katharine B. Judson, _Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest_. [180] Here is no doubt the origin of an Indian custom in many tribes. When old men part, you see each take the other’s hand to his mouth and breathe upon it; and when they smoke they blow the first six puffs to the six different directions of the universe. See Appendix IX. [181] _Eleventh Annual Report_, Bureau of American Ethnology. [182] Death meant the end of life on this earth and of certain kinds of intercourse between the dead and living individuals, “but not by any means a cessation of all kinds of intercourse” (Boas, _Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians_). [183] J. D. C. Pellow, _Parentalia_. [184] John T. Short, _North Americans of Antiquity_, pp. 333, _et seq._ See also Sir J. G. Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, Chapter II of the abridged edition, 1922. [185] The best-known of all such tales is that of “Quetzlcoatl” of the Mexicans, familiarized by Lew Wallace under the title, _The Fair God_. An interesting theory of the origin of this culture-hero is by Dominick Daly, in _Popular Science Monthly_, Vol. XXXIX, 1891. [186] Readers are very naturally bewildered by the name, which is the same as that of the monarch whom Cortés overcame and destroyed. The two were not the same, since, according to the Pueblos, their god Montezuma was among them before ever they had known of Mexico, but, after the Roman Church crushed the native religions of Peru and Mexico, Montezuma the king and Montezuma the mythical high priest became somewhat confused in their legendary history.