| | | [22] There were other Ka´ᵗsuna, however, which were in the upper | | world before the Sia came. While the Sia can not account for their | | origin they are also personated by them. | | | | [23] The aged ho´naaite has since died. | | | | [24] Here the singers sprinkle pollen to the north with an under | | wave of the hand. | | | | [25] Can not be translated. | | | | [26] Shell mixture and sacred meal are synonymous. | | | | [27] After the religious services it is usual for the ho´naaite | | to absent himself, even though he be the woman’s husband or | | father; his remaining being an evidence of unusual devotion. | | The mother-in-law may be present at childbirth, but not the | | father-in-law unless he be the chosen ho´naaite for the occasion, | | and his affection for the daughter-in-law prompting him to remain, | | this, however, being very rare. “Should the expectant mother fail | | to bend her thoughts upon the event to come the child would not | | care to be born and would lie still and die.” It is rare for a Sia | | woman to die in childbirth; or for a child to he stillborn. | | | | [28] The doctress names all infants, one name usually serving the | | female through life, but the male may have a plurality of names; | | for example, upon his return after a long journey, or after having | | performed some valorous deed his head is bathed in yucca suds by | | some female member of the cult society to which he belongs, or by a | | member of his clan, when she bestows an appropriate name. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Transcriber’s Notes: - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - Blank pages have been removed. - Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. - Native words spacing, hyphenation, and markup varies, this has been left as is. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sia, by Matilda Coxe Stevenson