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Introductory 325
The survival of early ZuÑi traits 325
Outline of Spanish-ZuÑi history 326
Outline of pristine ZuÑi history 341
Outline of ZuÑi mytho-sociologic organization 367
General explanations relative to the text 373
Myths 379
The genesis of the worlds, or the beginning of newness 379
The genesis of men and the creatures 379
The gestation of men and the creatures 381
The forthcoming from earth of the foremost of men 381
The birth from the sea of the Twain deliverers of men 381
The birth and delivery of men and the creatures 382
The condition of men when first into the world of daylight born 383
The origin of priests and of knowledge 384
The origin of the Raven and the Macaw, totems of winter and summer 384
The origin and naming of totem-clans and creature kinds, and the division and naming of spaces and things 386
The origin of the councils of secrecy or sacred brotherhoods 387
The unripeness and instability of the world when still young 388
The hardening of the world, and the first settlement of men 388
The beginning of the search for the Middle of the world, and the second tarrying of men 390
The learning of war, and the third tarrying 390
The meeting of the People of Dew, and the fourth tarrying 390
The generation of the seed of seeds, or the origin of corn 391
The renewal of the search for the Middle 398
The choosing of seekers for signs of the Middle 398
The change-making sin of the brother and sister 399
The birth of the Old-ones or ancients of the K´k 401
The renewal of the great journey, and the sundering of the tribes of men 403
The origin of death by dying, and the abode of souls and the K´k 404
The loss of the great southern clans 405
The saving of the father-clans 405
The awaiting of the lost clans 406
The straying of K‘yÄk´lu, and his plaint to the Water-fowl 406
How the Duck, hearing, was fain to guide K‘yÄk´lu 407
How the Rainbow-worm bore K‘yÄk´lu to the plain of K´‘hluËlane 408
The tarrying of K‘yÄk´lu in the plain, and his dismay 409
How the Duck found the lake of the dead and the gods of the K´k 409
How the gods of the K&

OUTLINES OF ZUÑI CREATION MYTHS
By Frank Hamilton Cushing


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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