At daylight Ahü′lktacina and Íntiwa returned, passing the gap (Wala)
and halting at the pahóki (shrine[56]) to deposit certain nakwákwocis
and páhos. Just as the sun rose the two visited a kiva in Hano.
Stooping down in front of it, Ahü′l drew a vertical mark with meal
on the inside of the front of the hatchway, on the side of the
entrance opposite the ladder. He turned to the sun and made six silent
inclinations, after which, standing erect, he bent his head backward
and began a low rumbling growl, and as he bent, his head forward,
raised his voice to a high falsetto. The sound he emitted was one
long expiration, and continued as long as he had breath. This act he
repeated four times and, turning toward the hatchway, made four silent
inclinations, emitting the same four characteristic expiratory calls.
The first two of these calls began with a low growl, the other two were
in the same high falsetto from beginning to end.
The kiva chief and two or three other principal members, each carrying
a handful of meal, then advanced, bearing short nakwákwoci hotomni,
which they placed in his left hand while they muttered low, reverent
prayers. They received in return a few stems of the corn and bean
plants which Ahü′l carried.
Ahü′l and Íntiwa next proceeded to the house of Tetapobi,[57] who
is the only representative of the Bear clan in Hano. Here at the
right-hand side of the door Ahü′l pressed his hand full of meal
against the wall at about the height of his chest and moved his hand
upward.[58] He then, as at the kiva, turned around and faced the
sun, holding his staff vertically at arm’s length with one end on
the ground, and made six silent inclinations and four calls. Turning
then to the doorway he made four inclinations and four calls. He then
went to the house of Nampíyo’s mother, where the same ceremony was
performed, and so on to the houses of each man or woman of the pueblo
who owns a típoni or other principal wími (fetich).
He repeated the same ceremony in houses in Sitcomovi and in Walpi,
where Íntiwa left him. Ahü′l entered this pueblo by the north street
and passed through the passageway to the Móñkiva. He proceeded to the
houses of Kwumawumsi, Nasyúñwewe, Samiwiki, and to all the kivas and
the houses of all the leading chiefs.
After visiting all the kivas and appropriate houses mentioned above,
Ahü′l went to Kowawainovi (the ledge under Talatryuku) and deposited
in the pahóki all the offerings that he had received, after which he
returned to the Móñkiva, divested himself of his ceremonial disguises,
and went home.
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