The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))Bourke, John Gregory
Religion
The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))
Bourke, John Gregory
Apache Indians -- Medicine; Apache Indians -- Religion; Apache Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Shamans -- New Mexico
One other point should be dwelt upon in describing the kunque of the
Zuñi, Tusayan, and other Pueblos. It is placed upon one of the sacred
flat baskets and packed down in such a manner that it takes the form
of one of the old-fashioned elongated cylindro-conical cheeses. It
should be noted also that by something more than a coincidence this
form was adhered to by the peoples farther to the south when they
arranged their sacred meal upon baskets.
At the festival of the god Teutleco the Aztecs made "de harina de
maiz un montecillo muy tupido de la forma de un queso."[326] This
closely resembles the corn meal heaps seen at the snake dance of the
Tusayan.
The Zuñi, in preparing kunque or sacred meal for their religious
festivals, invariably made it in the form of a pyramid resting upon
one of their flat baskets. It then bore a striking resemblance to the
pyramids or phalli which the Egyptians offered to their deities, and
which Forlong thinks must have been "just such Lingham-like
sweet-bread as we still see in Indian Sivaic temples."[327] Again,
"the orthodox Hislop, in his Two Babylons, tells us that 'bouns,'
buns, or bread offered to the gods from the most ancient times were
similar to our 'hotcross' buns of Good Friday, that ... the buns known
by that identical name were used in the worship of the Queen of
Heaven, the goddess Easter (Ishtar or Astarti) as early as the days of
Kekrops, the founder of Athens, 1500 years B. C."[328]
Forlong[329] quotes Capt. Wilford in Asiatick Researches, vol. 8, p.
365, as follows:
When the people of Syracuse were sacrificing to goddesses,
they offered cakes called _mulloi_, shaped like the female
organ; and Dulare tells us that the male organ was similarly
symbolised in pyramidal cakes at Easter by the pious
Christians of Saintogne, near Rochelle, and handed about from
house to house; that even in his day the festival of Palm
Sunday was called _La Fête des Pinnes_, showing that this
fête was held to be on account of both organs, although, of
course, principally because the day was sacred to the palm,
the ancient tree Phallus.... We may believe that the Jewish
cakes and show bread were also emblematic.
Mr. Frank H. Cushing informs me that there is an annual feast among
the Zuñi in which are to be seen cakes answering essentially to the
preceding description.
HODDENTIN A PREHISTORIC FOOD.
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