GLOSSARY | |
| “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-yé | 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-hé-yahs | Spirit People, or mediators between earth people and the Sun Father. |
| “Han-na-di Set-en-dah-nh!” | Te-hua ceremonial beginning of a legend or sacred myth story. |
| Hopi or Hópitû | 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-pé | Red shell beads. |
| Khen-yah | Shaking trail. |
| Lé-lang-ûh | 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-thé | 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-gé | “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]-piñ. |
| Po-eh-hin-cha | Santa Clara creek, N. M. |
| Po-etse | Box Cañon, Santa Clara Creek. |
| Po-ho-gé | San Ildefonso Pueblo, N. M. |
| Phen-tza | Yellow Mountain. |
| Piñ-pe-yé | An instrument of grooved stone and a reed, by which astronomical calculations were made by the Milky Way and stars. |
| Pu-yé | 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.” |
| Säh-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-hési | The Ancient Father:––the Power back of the Sun. |
| Shufinne | A pre-historic cliff dwelling near Pu-yé, N. M. |
| So-ho-dah-tsa | Dark Cloud. |
| Ta-ah-quea | The Goddess of the Young Summer. |
| Tahn-té | 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. |
| Tsé-ye | Cañon de Chelle, Arizona. The home of the Navaho Divine Ones. |
| Tse-c[=o]me-[=u]-piñ | A sacred mountain west of Pu-yé, 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. |
| Wálpi | The ancient stone village of “First Mesa” in Tusayan. |
| Yahn Tsyn-deh | Willow Bird. |
| Yutah | Ute, a Colorado tribe of the sone linguistic stock. |