The immediate blood
relations (female only) then assemble at the infant's home; that is,
all the household of the father's house and those of the mother's
house. Each woman from the father's house brings to the baby a gift of
a little blanket. This select gathering partakes of a feast, which is
presided over by the maternal grandmother. At the close of the feast
the infant is carried by the oldest sister of the father to the
paternal grandmother's house, where it is presented to the paternal
grandfather, who prays to the Sun (Yae-t[=o] tka) to send down
blessings upon the child.
INVOLUNTARY INITIATION INTO THE K[=O]K-K[=O].
The present ceremonials are in direct obedience to the orders and
instructions given at the time of the appearance of the K[=o]k-k[=o]
upon the earth, and their masks are counterparts of the original or
spiritual K[=o]k-k[=o] (Plate XX). The Kaek-l[=o] rides, as of old,
upon the backs of the K[=o]-y[=e]-m[=e]-shi, and he is the heralder
for the coming of the K[=o]-l[=o]-oo-w[)i]t-si. Arriving at the
village in the morning, he divides his time between the kivas, there
being six of these religious houses in Zuni, one for each of the
cardinal points, one for the zenith, and one for the nadir. In each
of these kivas he issues to the people assembled the commands of the
K[=o]k-k[=o] and gives the history of the Kaek-l[=o] and the gathering
of the cereals of the earth by the Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya. At sunrise he
is gone.
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