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Show fir S ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ S r ^ s ^ D S N ^ P • S ^ - <J«8p£* - ^ ^ l l ^ - f^5«& *V" Fig. 2. top, Zuni Pueblo; bottom, detail of central portion of Zuni Pueblo. Photographs by Peter Dechert, June 1977. death of a member, passing to whichever of his kinsmen is interested. Eight of the societies are composed of people who once came close to death through illness, accident, or taboo violation and had to place themselves under the protection of the beast priests of sipa-puli9ma in order to complete their lives. These are the 9ona- ya'naka tika-we 'Societies of the Completed Path': th^^wana-k^Vriestly^ People' and their "younger brothers," the newe'kwe 'Clowns'; the 9uhuhwkwe 'Uhuhu People' (probably named after a cry they use) and their offshoot, the iZPffn | Feet 100 200 revised from Natl. Park Service, Histl. Amer. Buildings Survey: map for 1972. Fig. 3. Central (original) portion of Zuni Pueblo. Kivas are numbered: 1, Wall kiva; 2, Backwall kiva; 3, Parched Corn kiva; 4, Dung kiva; 5, Brain kiva; 6, Little Group kiva. Arrows show route taken by kachina dancers. cikk9ali'kwe 'Snake Medicine People'; the makk9e c9ana-kwe 'Little Fire People' and their offshoot, the pesacilo-kwe 'Bedbug People'; and the halo'kwe 'Red Ant People' and the makk9e &ina-kwe 'Big Fire People'. Two other societies, though not counted as part of the Completed Path group, are associated with sipa-puli9ma. These are the lewe~kwe 'Sword People' or Tee People', whose patrons include the beast priests, and the suma-kwe 'Helix People', whose patrons are eastern kachinas. These 10 societies of sipa-puli9ma and the specialized orders within them have the knowledge of physical and mental powers that exceed ordinary human capacities. The Clowns, founded by the opposite-talking nepayatamu, know how to drink what is not potable (including urine) and eat what is not edible (including dung), and with great relish at that (Stevenson 1904:437). They have medicine that takes away the sense of shame, and with occasional help from the Priestly People they present public parodies of everything from kachina dances to lunar space probes (fig. 5). The Priestly, Uhuhu, Snake Medicine, Little Fire, Bedbug, and Helix People all have orders whose members know the mastery of fire, bathing in it, swallowing it, and (in the case of Little Fire and Bedbug) dancing on a bed of hot coals, all without getting burned (ibid.:503, 506, 566). The Sword People, 503 ZUNI R E L I G I O N AND WORLD VIEW |
