Tales of the Cochiti Indians: Contents

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Preface	ix
I. Origin tales and stories of the katcinas and the societies (see also p. 249)	1
Uretsiti	1
Variant	2
The flood	2
Kotcimanyako scatters the stars	4
Variant	4
The origin of death	5
Hummingbird has food	5
Salt Woman is refused food	6
Variant	7
The contest of good-tasting fat	7
Coyote fails as initiate	8
Heluta and N^yen^yega contest for a wife	9
Heluta plants the deer (see text translation, p. 251)	9
The imprisonment of the katcinas	11
The institution of pottery	12
Bloody hand-print katcina	13
The recovery of the koshare	13
The Women's Corn Grinding Society	14
How the people came up from Frijoles	15
The punishment of the Snake Society	15
The Pecos Indians become snakes	16
The Deer dance	17
"Where the giant is shut up"	17
II. Hero tales	19
The Giant and the Twins	19
Variant	20
The Giant and the Girl, text translation	21
The Sun's children	23
The son of the Sun, text translation	26
The Sun's child dances with his mother	31
Arrow Youth, text translation	32
Variant	39
Arrow Boy triumphs over his mockers	43
Arrow Boy's son	45
Arrow Boy recovers his wife	47
The contest of Poker Boy's wives	49
Poker Boy disappears into his shrine	50
Corncob Boy, text translation	51
Corncob Boy marries Deer Planter's daughters	60
Corncob Boy intercedes for his people	62
Corncob Boy triumphs over his mockers	62
p. vi
III. Novelistic tales	66
Cuisi'n^yinaw^a, text translation	66
Sun steals Shell Man's wife	70
Shell Man's wife is lured away by his eagle	71
The deer and the lost child, text translation	72
Variant	75
Variant	77
Mother Corn guides the deserted child to her people	77
Variant	78
The industrious daughter who would not marry	79
Variant	83
Variant	84
Locust Boy	85
Butterfly pursuit	85
A boy of White House marries a girl of the Village of the Stone Lions	86
The neglected child, text translation	88
Variant	88
Variant	89
Variant	90
The witch and her husband, text translation	90
Variant	91
Arrow Boy, child of the Witch Man	92
The Witch Wife transforms her husband	95
Variant	96
The husband who was a witch	97
The two brothers recover their sister from the witches	99
Variant	100
The youth and the witch, text translation	101
The witches who were mice at night	104
The man who failed to become a witch	105
The antelope hunter who was a witch	108
The two witch men, text translation	109
The woodchopper and the coyote, text translation	110
The bears, text translation	111
Variant	111
The jealous wife	114
The wife's revenge	115
The girl who did not love her little brother and sister	116
The eagle and the baby	117
The locust	118
The girl and the grasshoppers, text translation	118
Cactus lover	119
The wife who was cast out by her husband	120
Variant	123
Variant	125
The girl who stepped on the snake	126
Variant	127
The tip beetle's revenge	127
The man who, was cruel to animals	128
The cacique who visited the dead (see also p. 255)	130
The mother who mourned for her daughter	131
p. vii
IV. Animal tales	133
Crow and Hawk	133
Variant	135
Coyote and Beaver exchange wives	136
Crane and Geese	137
Bat Boy	139
The frog wife	140
Lion and Grizzly Bear	142
Variant	142
Coyote sings for the prairie dogs	144
Coyote interrupts the corn dance	144
Coyote brings her children to play with the quails	145
Bungling host	146
Fox and Coyote	147
Variant	148
Duck sings for her children	148
Coyote imitates Crow	149
Road Runner girls grind	149
Coyote has a ball on her toe	150
Crow's song	151
The Burro and the Coyote	152
Betting eyes	153
Bird and Toad play hide and seek	153
Origin of the cat	154
Woodrat and Mouse challenge each other	155
Woodrats	156
Horned Toad sings in Black Boy's stomach	156
The searing contest	157
Geese talk the Santa Ana language	158
Geese go shell gathering	159
Deer and Coyote, text translation	160
Variant	161
V. European stories--Märchen and noodle tales	163
Ginini (halfwit)	163
Variant	165
The blind one and the lame one, text translation	166
Variant	167
The six boys, text translation	167
Variant	169
The three brothers, text translation	170
Tied to the cow's tail	176
The devil woman	177
The giant's daughters	178
The door falls from the tree upon the robbers	180
The three brothers (open sesame)	181
Half rooster	182
VI. True stories	185
How the people came up from Frijoles	185
The destruction of White Shell pueblo	186
The coming of the Mexicans	187
How they came down from the mesa	189
Montezuma	191
p. viii
The first battle with the whites	92
The first priest at Cochiti	193
The girl who was stolen by a Navaho	195
Why the Navaho buy so much turquoise	196
People who went for turquoise and became snakes (see also p. 254)	196
The Cochiti scalp a Navaho at Sia	197
Buffalo hunting on the plains	197
Antelope hunting	200
DISCUSSION
Introduction	201
I. Origin tales and stories of the katcinas and the societies	203
Origin tales	203
Stories of the katcinas	236
Stories of the societies	208
II. Hero tales	210
The twin heroes	210
Arrow Boy	214
Poker Boy	217
Corncob Boy	217
Montezuma	219
III. Novelistic tales	221
Tales of conflict between husband and wife	222
Tales of amorous women	225
The girl who refused offers of marriage	225
The girl who took upon herself the duties of men	227
Tales of unnatural parents	228
Tales of abduction	229
Tales of cruelty to animals	231
Witch tales	232
Miscellaneous	235
Fables	236
IV. Animal tales	239
Coyote	239
Other animal tales	241
V. European tales	244
Noodle tales	244
John the Bear	245
The three brothers	246
The devil mother	246
The giant's daughters	247
The door falls from the tree upon the robbers	247
Open sesame	247
Half rooster	248
APPENDIX
Place of emergence (text translation)	249
Ganadyani (text translation)	251
The turquoise cave (text translation)	254
A visit to the underworld	255

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