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Show thence to the floor, where instantly a mask appeared. In this way, he created masks for each god. The supernatural beings descended from the sky to Kolhu/walatwa to see the newly created gods, and told them that their earthly mothers could not be comforted. The gods repliedt Tell our mothers not to grieve for us; we are not dead; we live and sing and dance in this beautiful place. When they fall asleep they will wake here and return to the undermost world whence they came. Here we work for our mothers and all our people and we are very happy. The Divine Ones memorized the masks of the new gods and then rose to the surface and reported what they had learned. 59 Later the Kokko came from Kolhu/walatwa and showed the Zunis their masks inside the kivas they had ordered constructed. The Zuni counterparts examined the masks and made copies of them. The first Komosona was appointed and he divided the people into the six kivas, fin despite their clan affiliations. Elsewhere Stevenson notes that the Mudheads come from the trail to Kolhu/walatwa during the Shalako ceremony. The other supernatural beings and gods also come from Kolhu/walatwa during ceremonies.61 In the old time the people from Ko'thluwala'wa and A'witen te'hula appeared in the flesh, but their presence caused great mortality among the A'shiwi, which distressed the A'shiwanni, and therefore they of the ghost world decided to come thereafter only in the spirit, and so the gods instructed the people to wear masks like 59. Stevenson, Matilda Coxe "The Zuni Indianst Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies," Twenty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D. C, GPO, 1904, p. 34. ~*~ ~~ 60. Ibid., p. 47. 61. Stevenson, 1904, og. cit., p. 235. - 42 - |
