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The Flute of the Gods
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Marah Ellis Ryan
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       "Alikasai!" = Hopi ceremonial word for a story
       telling, equivalent to "Once upon
       a time," or "Thus it was."
       Alvarado, Hernando de = A lieutenant of Coronado, 1540.
       Atoki = The Crane.
       Ah-ko = Acoma, N. M., a village of the
       Queres people.
       Apache = A warrior tribe of Athapascan stock
       in Arizona.
       Awh-we = "Mountain Place."
       By-otle (see Py-otle).
       Chinig-Chinik = A Pacific coast tribe of Nature
       worshippers.
       Chilan Balam = Indian priest and prophet. 16th Century.
       Ci-bo-la = Zuni, N. M. The only surviving village
       of the "Seven Cities of Cibola"
       of the early Spanish, chronicles.
       Ci-cu-ye = Indian village and river. Pecos, N. M.
       "Cabeza de Vaca"; = Alvar Nunez:--the first European
       to cross the land and make record
       of the natives of the Arizona region.
       (1528-36).
       Dok-os-lid = Navaho sacred mountain of the west.
       San Francisco Mt., Arizona.
       Doli = The blue bird. (Navaho).
       Estsan-atlehi = Navaho Earth Goddess.
       Go-he-yahs = Spirit People, or mediators between
       earth people and the Sun Father.
       "Han-na-di = Te-hua ceremonial beginning of a
       Set-en-dah-nh!" legend or sacred myth story.
       Hopi or Hopitu = The desert people of Tusayan, often
       named Moki or Moqui by outsiders
       or tribal enemies.
       Ho-tiwa = Arrows (being) made.
       Kat-yi-ti = Cochiti Pueblo, N. M.
       Ka-yemo = Falling leaves.
       Kah-po = Santa Clara Pueblo, N. M.
       Ki-pah = A legendary civilizer and prophet of
       Te-hua people.
       Kat-yi-mo = The solitary "Mesa Enchanted,"
       three miles north of Acoma.
       K[=a]-ye-povi = Spirit Blossom.
       K[=a]-ye-fah = Wings of the Spirits.
       Koh-pe = Red shell beads.
       Khen-yah = Shaking trail.
       Le-lang-uh = The Spirit Leader of the Flute
       Ceremony for rain in the desert. He
       was the first to make prayers
       through the reed to the Spirit People
       of the Elements. The gods
       granted the prayer, and the Sacred
       Order of the Flute was instituted.
       It exists to-day in Tusayan.
       "Lost Others." = Those who have gone from earth life
       to the spirit land.
       Lo-lo-mi, = A Hopi word indicating that all is
       good or beautiful.--A blessing.
       Mo-wa-the = Flash of Light.
       "Mother of the
       Starry Skirt" = Milky Way.
       "Moon of the
       Yellow Leaves" = September.
       Navahu = Navaho, a nomadic tribe of Athapascan
       stock in Arizona.
       Na-im-be = Nambe Pueblo, N. M.
       Nahual = Spirit Ministrant, or unexpressed
       personal power.
       Oj-ke = San Juan Pueblo, N. M.
       O-ye-tza = White Ice.
       Oh-we-tahnh = Indian writing. (Pictographs)
       P[=o]-s[=o]n-ge = "The river that is great," Rio
       Grande.
       Po-Ahtun = An esoteric cult known from N. M.
       to Central America. The Lords of
       the Water and the Four Winds.
       Po-Ahtun-ho = The high priest of the order. The
       spiritual ruler.
       Po-se-yemo = "Dew of Heaven." The earth-born
       Te-hua Christ.
       Povi-whah = Moving Blossom.
       Po-tzah = White Water.
       Po-pe-kan-eh = "Where the water is born." Springs
       at the foot of Tse-c[=o]me-[=u]-pin.
       Po-eh-hin-cha = Santa Clara creek, N. M.
       Po-etse = Box Canyon, Santa Clara Creek.
       Po-ho-ge = San Ildefonso Pueblo, N. M.
       Phen-tza = Yellow Mountain.
       Pin-pe-ye = An instrument of grooved stone and
       a reed, by which astronomical calculations
       were made by the Milky Way and stars.
       Pu-ye = A cliff dwelling on Santa Clara
       Reservation, N. M.
       Py-otle = A powerful drug known by Indian
       medicine men from the great lakes
       to Yucatan.
       Quetzal-coatl = A God of Light of Mexico.
       Qui-ve ra = A mythic land of gold in the desert.
       Queres = or Que-ran-na. An ancient house
       building people of N. M. Their
       principal pueblo is Acoma--"The
       sky dwellings of White."
       Saeh-pah = The Frost.
       S[=aa]-hanh-que-ah = The Woman of the Twilight.
       Sea of Cortez = Gulf of California.
       Se-po-chineh = The Place of Ancient Fire, a sacred
       mountain, Mt. Taylor, N. M.
       Sik-yat-ki = A ruin in the Tusayan desert, near
       Walpi, Arizona.
       Sten-ahtlihan = The supreme goddess of the Apache
       pantheon.
       Sinde-hesi = The Ancient Father:--the Power
       back of the Sun.
       Shufinne = A pre-historic cliff dwelling near
       Pu-ye, N. M.
       So-ho-dah-tsa = Dark Cloud.
       Ta-ah-quea = The Goddess of the Young Summer.
       Tahn-te = Light of the Sun.
       Tain-tsain Clan = Antelope Clan.
       Te-hua = "Children of the Sun." A house
       building people of the Tanoan
       Group, Rio Grande valley, N. M.
       Te-get-ha = Taos Pueblo, N. M. One of the best
       examples of the terraced, five storied,
       pre-Columbian architecture,
       still inhabited.
       Tiguex = A ruin near Bermalillo, N. M., called
       by the natives Po-ri-kun-neh:--"the
       Place of the Butterflies."
       Te-tzo-ge = Tesuque Pueblo, N. M.
       Tsa-mah = A Te-hua village at the junction of
       the Tsa-mah and Rio Grande, now
       Chamita, N. M., interesting as the
       site of the first colony of Spanish
       pioneers in N. M. 1591.
       Tsa-fah = Chicken Hawk.
       Tse-ye = Canyon de Chelle, Arizona. The home
       of the Navaho Divine Ones.
       Tse-c[=o]me-[=u]-pin
       = A sacred mountain west
       of Pu-ye, N. M.
       Towa Toan Clan = High Mesa Clan.
       Tusayan = Province of. A territory in
       Northern Arizona, now the Hopi
       Indian Reservation.
       Tuyo = The "Black Mesa" of
       San Ildefonso, N. M.
       Ui-la-ua = Picuris Pueblo, N. M.
       Ua-lano = Jemez Pueblo, N. M.
       Walpi = The ancient stone village of
       "First Mesa" in Tusayan.
       Yahn Tsyn-deh = Willow Bird.
       Yutah = Ute, a Colorado tribe of the
       sone linguistic stock.
       

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