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Show are called Kok-ko, "Masked dancers." She asserted that the Kokko not only danced in the great dance house, but also in the lake itself, and related the other incidents that occurred while the Zunis lingered near Kolhu/walatwa. Now the creation of Kothluwalawa seems to have been for a purpose, but the Zuni could not receive benefit therefrom until they were acquainted with the organization and plans proposed by the council of the Gods. Accordingly Pautiwa, director-in-chief of Kothluwalawa, designated his deputy Ka'klo, sagacious and good to talk, to bear his instructions to the Zuni. After the Zunis had eventually found the "Middle Place," Pautiwa designated some of the supernatural beings to lead the Zunis to the middle of the world. Then one of the beings told the Zunis the history of their origin, "their migrations to Itiwanna, the Middle, adding that in eight days more the gods would come to give to the people the new breath of life, and they must have ready six houses (kivas) for the six regions in which to receive the gods, and they must go over the western road to meet the gods." Stevenson heard the migration narrative from two different sources, and she observed that the two versions were almost exactly the same. She noted that the supernatural beings living at Kolhu/walatwa visited Zuni in physical form only once, long ago, and that although they wear their religious masks while dancing under the lake, when they "ascend to this world to walk about a little for recreation they 45. Stevenson, 1898, og. cit., p. 37, - 33 - |
