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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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Marah Ellis Ryan's Novel: Flute of the Gods
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