The Hopi have another shrine at which they worship in the New-fire ceremony, but instead of an image this contains a log of silicified wood called _Tuwapontumsi_, “Earth-altar-woman.” Exactly who this personage is, the author has not yet discovered, but it is instructive to know that among the Hopi totems which he obtained, one of the men gave as his signature a figure of a lizard, a circle representing the earth, and a horned human figure which was called _Tuwapontumsi_. As this figure recalls that of _Alósaka_, and as the shrine of the being it represents is visited at the same time as that of _Talatumsi_ by priests guided by _Alósaka_, it is not impossible that _Tuwapontumsi_ is connected with the _Alósaka_ cult. A visit to this shrine was made by the two phallic societies, _Tataukyamû_ and _Wüwütcimtû_, directly after the kindling of the new fire in the chief kiva at Walpi. They were led by a man personating _Alósaka_, and after praying at the shrine they marched in single file to the site of Old Walpi, on the terrace below the present pueblo, and encircled the mounds of this old habitation four times, sprinkling prayer-meal as their leader, _Alósaka_, directed. This place is called a _sípapû_, and below it are thought to dwell the ancients. The prayers were addressed to the old men who have died. “Down below us they dwell,” said an old priest. “There the ancients dwell,” said he, patting the ground with his foot. “We are now praying to them.” There are many facts which show the existence of ancestor worship among the Hopi, but the author never heard it stated more clearly by the priests than the night he accompanied the phallic societies[6] to the ancient site of Walpi in the celebration of the New-fire ceremonies in November, 1898. The Bird-man in the Soyáluña One of the most striking features of the rites of the Winter Solstice ceremony in the chief kiva is the personation, before an altar, of a Bird-man who is thought to represent a solar god. This episode at Walpi has been elsewhere described,[7] but as at Oraibi it immediately precedes certain rites directly related to the _Alósaka_ cult, a few notes on the personation of the Bird-man in the latter pueblo will be introduced.