Index

Adulterous Coyote: 83, 103, 104, 127, 204
Ajiłee (Excessway): 6, 228; Coyoteway used for sexual misbehavior, 231
Armer, Laura: 16, 126, 203, 225-28

Badger foot; 139, 141, 142, 182
Basket-drum: 25, 96, 97-120, 183, 185, 186
Begochidi: 4

Big Mustache: see Many Whiskers
Bit'ahnii Bidághaaí: 228-30
Black-god: 4

Blessing songs: 97-120, 185
Blessingway: 10, 139
Blood: 77-78, 82, 100-101
Burning the Feathers: 16, 20, 22 n, 48-52, 87, 117-20, 153, 181, 204

Coyote (directional, animal and cosmic forms): 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 22 n, 45, 50-52, 60, 65, 67, 69, 70, 75-76, 81,
107-11, 126,127,135

Coyote Carrier: 122, 125, 167, 170, 171, 172,174,176,178

Coyote clan: 15, 18, 191

Coyote fur (skin): 75-77, 86, 112, 128; Hogan as fur, 100, 112

Coyote Girl: 69, 126, 127, 129, 130, 135, 137, 142, 160, 163, 172, 179, 188, 225, 226, 227

Coyote illness: 8, 9, 127

Coyoteway: classification of, 5-6; myth, 18-19, 20-22, 133, 159, 191-202, 203-216, 217-23; recording of, ix, xi-xv;

ritual sequence, 7, 8, 25-30; singers, ix, xii-xiv, 15-22, 191, 203, 217; theology, 126-29

Calling-god: 4, 69, 115-17, 123, 124, 128, 203

Charlie, William: 6 n, 8, 217-23, 230-33
Cigarette: see Reed-prayerstick
Cook, Luke: ix, xi-xv, 6, 8, 9, 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 122, 129, 131, 135, 204
Cooke, Johnny: ix, xi-xiv, 21, 25
Corn (maize): 97, 122, 127, 133, 137, 139, 146, 159, 160, 180
Cornmeal: 5, 88, 93, 117, 144
Cornmeal circle: 34, 35

Defamation, of gods: 10, 187

Eliade, Mircea: 12

Emergence, emergence hole: 4, 10 n5, 18, 20, 103, 130, 132, 133, 137, 140, 143, 146, 180, 218; birth of humankind,
149; shamanic descent, 148-49; see also Underworld

Eschatology: 10 n5

Ethical dualism: 127

Ethicized Coyote tales: 12

Evilway: 6, 6 n, 8, 10, 10 n4, 11, 16, 20, 204, 217, 218; myth, 218-23
Excessway: see Ajiłee

Featherburning: see Burning the Feathers Female God: 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 167, 170, 174, 178
Fire: 25, 26, 48, 53- 96, 118, 204; making of, 53, 54

First Man, Woman, Boy, Girl; 20
Flash photography: 54
Fort Sumner: 10 n4, 16, 18
Franciscan Fathers: 9, 124, 125
Fringed Mouth: 124, 125

Gods: see Holy People
Grandfather; of the gods, see Talking-god; as teacher, xi, 19, 126, 224
Gray fox skin: 122, 160, 162, 164, 170
Guardian, divine tutelary: 4, 8, 18, 218

Haile, Father Berard 0FM.: 16, 123, 124, 125, 203, 228
Hastiin Neez: 16, 17, 124, 126, 191-202
Hebrew-Christian religion, compared: xi-xii, xiv-xv, 34, 127, 187-88
Henderson, William: 229

Herders, shepherds: 8, 187
He Who Returns Angrily: 16, 19
Holy People, gods: 6, 7, 11, 14, 34, 121, 154, 185; see also Coyote, Coyote Girl, Female God, Talking-god,
Calling-god, and others
Holyway: 5, 6, 7, 11, 18, 19 n
Horned Toad: 22, 204
Hunter tradition: xi, 3, 8, 10 n5, 187, 230-33

Iiłkóóh (emetic): 73-75, 77, 81-85
Improvisation: 52, 60, 65, 182

Jessie James Begay the First: see Man With Palomino Horse

Kétłoh (rub-on medicine): 34, 45, 47, 74, 85-87, 90, 130, 139, 141, 142, 146, 148,149,150,180

Maize: see Corn Man With Palomino Horse (Jessie James Begay the First): ix, xii-xiii, 8, 9, 15-22, 122, 124, 125,
224 Many Whiskers (Big Mustache): 16, 19, 126, 224-27

Matthews, Washington: 125, 129
Medicine man: see Singer
Microcosm: 130, 142, 146
Mistakes: 52, 56 n, 59-60
Mysticism, mystical: 86, 102, 123, 187

Navajo religion: 3-14; compared with Pueblo Indian, 3-5, 7, 8, 10 n4, 10 n5, 18, 20 n, 34, 103, 130, 159, 191,192

Newcomb, F.J. (Mrs.): 225

Nightway, Night Chant: 123-29

Oakes, Maud: 217-23, 231-33 Offering bundle: see Reed-prayerstick bundle
Opler, Morris: 7, 7 n, 10 n3, 10 n5, 12, 19n

Plumeway: 217 Pollen: 59, 62, 63, 93, 94, 95, 165, 166, 174, 180; circle of, 62
Practitioner: see Singer Prayer: 52, 59, 60, 65-69
Prayerstick: standing-up, 139, 140, 142, 158, 182; talking, 139, 141, 182; see also Reed-prayerstick
Prehuman flux: 128
Priest: see Singer
Prompter: 174, 179
Pueblo Indian: 3-5, 7, 8, 10 n4, 10 n5, 18, 19 n, 20 n, 34, 103, 130, 159, 191,192

Reed-prayerstick: 59, 201, 202; bundle, 53,54-73, 164, 181, 182,230; delivery of bundle, 70-73, 182

Ross, H.D.: 231

Underworld, underground: 4, 7, 10 n5, 18, 19, 20, 34, 50, 97, 104, 129, 133, 135, 142,144,146,191,192,203; see
also Emergence

Unraveling: 25, 26, 31-52, 87, 118, 130 Upwardreachingway: 11, 22 n, 204

Sandpainting: 25, 129-41, 159; carried away, 182-83
Shaman, shamanism: 3, 4, 5, 12, 13, 94, 127, 129, 135, 142, 146, 148, 191, 192, 218; shamanic descent,
see Emergence hole
Singer: ix, xii-xiv, 3, 12, 192; initiation of, xiii-xv, 9, 34, 50, 186
Sliding lizards: 101, 127, 204
Smoking: see Reed-prayerstick
Spruce twigs: 74, 87, 89, 160, 167
Sweating: 48, 49, 53, 73-87, 128, 232

Talking-god (yé'iibicheii), grandfather of the gods: 4, 69, 115-17, 121-25, 128, 129, 135, 137, 159, 160, 163, 167,
179, 180, 203, 233n; his cosmic dimension, 188;
impersonated, 165, 166,167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177

Tobacco, use of: see Reed-prayerstick

Trickster: 10, 10 n3, 11,218

Tséyi'nii: 124, 127, 159, 203-16

Washing: 53, 87-96

Water Serpent: 19 n, 192

Weapon- or Fighting-way (deezlájí): 10, 11

Wheelwright, Mary: 124, 191, 203, 224, 229

Witchcraft, witches: 9, 10 n4, 16, 22 n, 59, 86, 88, 117, 127, 204; for counter-witchcraft measures see Burning the
Feathers and Sweating

Woodmann, Pierre: 229

Wooltáád bundle. Unraveling bundle: 31-33,42-45,60,87,201,202

Wyman, Leland: 5, 6, 12, 128

Wyman, Leland and Clyde Kluckhohn; 9

Yellow Hair: 16

Yellow Man of the Canyon People: 18
Yoo'Hataałi: 124, 126, 191-202 Yucca: 87, 89,90,91,97, 98

Zaa'nił (medicine to drink): 45-46, 139, 141, 142, 146, 149, 150, 180
Zuni: 8, 22 n, 48 n

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