"Lo! as a mother of her own being and blood gives life and sustenance to her offspring, so have these given unto ye--for ye are their children--the means of life and sustenance. The Mother-maidens are gone, but lo! the seed of each is with ye! From the beginning of the newly come sun each year, ye shall treasure their gifts throughout the Moon Nameless, the Moon of the Sacred Fire and the Earth-whitening, the Moon of the Snow-broken Boughs, the Moon of the Snowless Pathways, the Moon of the Greater Sand-driving Storms, and the Moon of the Lesser Sand-driving Storms, shall ye treasure these gifts, with them, making perfect, by means of sacred observances of thy rites and the rites of the Kâ´kâ, the Seed of Seeds. Then in the new soil which the winter winds, hail, snow and water have brought unto ye the possessors of the _múetone_, ye shall bury in perfect order as I instruct ye, these gifts, their flesh, as ye bury the flesh of the dead. And as the flesh of the finished dead decays, so shall this flesh decay; but as from the flesh of the finished dead, the other-being (soul) in the night light of the Kâ´kâ springs forth, so from this flesh shall spring forth in the day light of the Sun-father, new being, like to the first, yet in sevenfold amplitude. "Of this food shall ye ever eat and be bereft of hunger. Behold! beautiful and perfect were the Maidens, and as this their flesh, derived from them in beauty and by beautiful custom is perfect and beautiful, so shall it confer on those nourished of it, perfection of person, and beauty, like to that of those from whom it was derived, so long as like them their customs are those of Maidens." THE FINAL INSTRUCTIONS OF PAÍYATUMA, AND HIS PASSING. "And now will I teach ye the customs and song of the planting," said Paíyatuma; and then first he sat him down and smoked the cigarette of relationship with the fathers of the Seed and Water kinties, and all night long until the dawn the songs sounded and the sacred instructions of the seed (_tâ´a téusu haítosh nawe_) sounded. And in the gray mists of the morning Paíyatuma was hidden--and is seen no more of men. INDEX. ALBIZU, TOMAS DE, Zuñi attacked by, 328 ALONA identified with Hálona, 327 ALVARADO, H. DE, Zuñi ruins visited by, 344 ÁNAHOHO of Zuñi mythology, 414 ÁNOSIN TÉHULI of Zuñi mythology, 381 APACHE-NAVAJO, Háwik’uh destroyed by, 329 ÁPOYAN TÄ´CHU of Zuñi mythology, 379 AQUICO identified with Háwik’uh, 326 ARCHITECTURAL terms of the Zuñi, 356 ARCHITECTURE of cliff dwellings, 344 , Zuñi, Evolution of, 363 ART remains of cliff and cave dwellers, 351 ARVIDE, MARTIN DE, killed by the Zuñi, 327, 328 ÁSHIWI, a Zuñi synonym, 367 AVILA Y AYALA, PADRE DE, missionary at Zuñi, 329 ÁWISHO TEHULI of Zuñi mythology, 383 ÁWITELIN TSÍTA of Zuñi mythology, 379 ÁWITEN TÉHU‘HLNAKWI of Zuñi mythology, 379 ÁWONAWÍLONA of Zuñi mythology, 379