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Show The spirit is fed each day with food thrown into the fire, and on the morning of the fifth day, when the spirit starts on its journey to Ko'thluwala'wa, a large bowl of different kinds of food is cast into the fire for its use during the journey of two days and nights. Upon reaching the lake, in the depths of which is Ko'thluwala'wa, the spirit descends the mystic ladder to meet the Council of the Gods, and thence passes on to the undermost world, the place of Zuni nativity. There are mediums who have seen the deceased Zuni dancing in Ko'thluwala'wa. Stevenson was very moved by the exhibition of grief of those who had lost loved ones at Zuni, and herself showed some sense of loss when two of her friends died-We'wha, who talked to Stevenson of "preparing to go to her beloved Ko'thluwala'wa," and Naiuche, whose sad burial without his ceremonial mask meant 53 he could not dance in Kolhu/walatwa. 53. Ibid., p.36, 38, 43, 46-47, 64-89, 90, 95, 129, 132, 135-137, 139, 141, 148-162, 175-177, 195, 199, 204, 247, 252, 255, 269-270, 278, 386, 457, 469, 480, and 567. Many details were provided by Stevenson regarding the role of Kolhu/walatwa to Zuni afterlife, the Kokko who live and travel from there, offerings made by all Zunis throughout the year to the Kokko at Kolhu/walatwa, the gathering of substances at Kolhu/walatwa, the quadrennial pilgrimage to the area (and the off-year treks to the spring at Ojo Caliente), and the tie between the entire calendrical cycle of dances to the summer solstice pilgrimages. - 39 - |
