| [7] Though it is not mentioned in the story, it seems to be | | understood that these games were played for the houses, for had | | Po´shaiyänne lost the games he would have lost the houses. | | | | [8] Ancient flat shell beads as thin as paper. | | | | [9] This reference to tables appears to evidence the fact that this | | portion of the cosmogony is of later date, and the whole paragraph | | savors of a coloring from Christian or biblical teaching. | | | | [10] The culture hero of the Sia bears a name similar to that of | | the corresponding prodigy among the Zuñi. The same is true of other | | of their mythological beings. | | | | [11] Fifth Ann. Rept. Bu. Eth., pp. 539-553. | | | | [12] Presiding officer of a cult society. | | | | [13] This society differed from the one of the same name afterwards | | organized in the upper world; knife in the former referring to | | the implement used for domestic and other purposes, while the | | word in the latter indicates the arrows presented to Ma´asewe and | | U´yuuyewĕ, the two war heroes, sons of the sun, by their father. | | | | [14] The ho´naaite, in this instance, is not, strictly speaking, | | the theurgist, for the priest-doctor of the society of warriors | | practices surgery exclusively, such as extracting balls and | | arrows, while the theurgist has to deal with afflictions caused | | by witchcraft and the anger of certain animals and insects, he | | acting simply as the agent of the prey animals. The functions of | | the ho´naaites of the Koshai´ri and Quer´ränna also differ from | | those of the other societies. As these two societies received their | | songs and medicine directly from the sun, they are not entitled | | to the slat altars used in ceremonials and given by Ût´sĕt to the | | societies in the lower world; only those ho´naaites who practice | | through the power of the prey animals possess the sand paintings. | | The Warriors, Koshai´ri and Quer´ränna, make their cloud emblems of | | meal. | | | | [15] The sacred meal, or shell mixture as it is often called by the | | Sia, may be prepared by an adult of either sex; it is composed of |