| Frank Hamilton Cushing - 1883 - 64 pages
...with long chanting, as he sank, almost exhausted, on a roll of skins which had THE DEMON OF CHILDHOOD. plain. They were solemnly led by a painted and shell-bedecked priest, and followed by the torch-bearing Shu-lu- wit-si, or God of Fire. After they had vanished, I asked old brother what it all meant. " They... | |
| James George Frazer - 1890 - 430 pages
...not for savage ornament . . . One day as I sat watching him, a procession of fifty men went hastily down the hill, and off westward over the plain. They were solemnly led by a painted and shell -bedecked priest, and followed by the torch-bearing Shu-lu-wit-si, or God of Fire. After they... | |
| Frank H. Cushing - 1981 - 468 pages
...ingenuity was remarkably beautiful. One day as I sat watching him, a procession of fifty men went hastily down the hill, and off westward over the plain. They...meant. "They are going," said he, "to the city of the Kâ'-kâ and the home of our others." Four days after, toward sunset, costumed and masked in the beautiful... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - 1984 - 126 pages
...the hill, and off westward over the plain. They were solemnly led by a painted and shell -bedecked priest, and followed by the torch-bearing Shu-lu-wit-si...meant. "'They are going,' said he, 'to the city of the [Kokko] and the home of our others.' "Four days after, toward sunset, costumed and masked in the beautiful... | |
| Edward S. Curtis - 1997 - 288 pages
...procession of fifty men went hastilv down the hill, and off westward over the plain. Thev were solemnlv led by a painted and shell-bedecked priest, and followed by the torch-bearing God of Fire. Four days after, toward sunset, they returned in file up the same pathway, each bearing... | |
| 1883 - 1002 pages
...with long chanting, as he sank, almost exhausted, on a roll of skins which had THE DEMON OF CHILDHOOD. plain. They were solemnly led by a painted and shell-bedecked...the city of the Ka-ka and the home of our others." Four days after, toward sunset, costumed and masked in the beautiful paraphernalia of the Ka-k'ok-shi,... | |
| 326 pages
...how the Zuni regard the aquatic animals in the sacred lake: "A procession of fifty men went hastily down the hill, and off westward over the plain. They...by the torchbearing Shu-lu-wit-si, or God of Fire. . . 'They are going to the city of the Ka-ka and the home of our others.' "Four days after, toward... | |
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