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Sacred-Texts  Native American  Southwest 

A Feast Day at Acoma: photograph by Edward S. Curtis The Zuñi

The Zuñi are a Southwest American Indian nation. Their spiritual beliefs center around elaborate ceremonies for fertility and rain, comprised of a yearly cycle of ritual dances by masked dancing gods called Kachinas. This section provides detailed ethographic descriptions of Zuñi spiritual beliefs, which permeate every aspect of their culture.


Ruth Bunzel
  Table of Zuñi Sounds
  Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism by Ruth Bunzel 215,769 bytes
  Zuñi Origin Myths by Ruth Bunzel 66,114 bytes
  Zuñi Ritual Poetry by Ruth Bunzel 310,414 bytes

Frank Hamilton Cushing
Cushing: Zuñi Folk Tales [1901]
  Outline of Zuñi Mytho-Sociologic Organization
  Zuñi Fetiches
  Remarks on Shamanism
  Form and Form and the Dance Drama
  Corn Raising: The Decay of the Seed
  Corn Raising: The Regeneration of the Seed
  Clowns, Priests, and Festivals of the Kâ'-kâ
  Creation and the Origin of Corn