ILLUSTRATIONS
| “By the Arrow I Have Said It!” | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The One Town of Wálpi | [3] |
| The Prayer Token | [15] |
| Blood-red Stars in the Green of His Crown | [19] |
| To Don Ruy, a Message in the Moonlight | [65] |
| The Place of the Palms | [95] |
| The Prayer of Yahn Tsyn-deh | [109] |
| Yahn at the Grinding Stone | [113] |
| Ka-yemo | [119] |
| The Signal Fire to the Mountain God | [125] |
| And Reached His Hands to His Brothers––The stars | [129] |
| The Maid of Dreams | [131] |
| Straight to Him Drifted the Bluebird’s Wing | [135] |
| A Lonely Figure Despite Her Trophies | [139] |
| Tahn-té Stepped Forward | [179] |
| The Page | [199] |
| Into the Kiva of Council They Descended | [207] |
| One Girl Waited at the Portal | [245] |
| In Castilian War Dress He Stood | [257] |
| She Led Him Up the Ancient Stairway | [283] |
| Only a Witch Led To Death | [311] |
| “Back! Thing of the Evil One!” | [325] |
| Tahn-té; the Outcast | [327] |
| Only a Trail Across the Desert Sands | [333] |
THE FLUTE OF THE GODS
CHAPTER I
THE WOMAN FROM THE SOUTH
Aliksai! In Tusayan the people were living! It was the year after the year when the great star with the belt of fire reached across the sky. (1528.)
The desert land of the Hopi people stretched yellow and brown and dead from mesa to mesa. The sage was the color of the dust, and the brazen sky was as a shield made hard and dry by the will of the angry gods. The Spirit People of the elements could not find their way past that shield, and could not bear blessings to Earth children.