ny identity can be established, the "Montezuma" of
popular and usually erroneous Mexican tradition.

PO-SHAI-A[N,]-K'IA.

In ancient times, while yet all beings belonged to one family,
Po-shai-a[n,]-k'ia, the father of our sacred bands, lived with his
children (disciples) in the City of the Mists, the middle place (center)
of the Medicine societies of the world. There he was guarded on all
sides by his six warriors, A-pi-thlan shi-wa-ni (_pi-thlan_=bow,
_shi-wa-ni_=priests), the prey gods; toward the North by the Mountain
Lion (Long Tail); toward the West by the Bear (Clumsy Foot); toward the
South by the Badger (Black Mark Face); toward the East by the Wolf (Hang
Tail); above by the Eagle (White Cap); and below by the Mole. When he
was about to go forth into the world, he divided the universe into six
regions, namely, the North (Pi[']sh-lan-kwin tah-na=Direction of the
Swept or Barren place); the West (K'iae[']-li-shi-in-kwin
tah-na=Direction of the Home of the Waters); the South (A-la-ho-in-kwin
tah-na=Direction of the Place of the Beautiful Bed); the East
(Te-lu-a-in-kwin tah-na=Direction of the Home of Day); the Upper Regions
(I-ya-ma-in-kwin tah-na=Direction of the Home of the High); and the
Lower Regions (Ma-ne-lam-in-kwin tah-na=Direction of the Home of the
Low)."

[Illustration: PREY GOD FETICHES OF THE SIX REGIONS.]

All, save the first of these terms, are archaic. The modern names for
the West, South, East, Upper and Lower Regions signifying
respectively--"The Place of Evening," "The Place of the Salt Lake" (Las
Salinas), "The Place whence comes the Day," "The Above," and "The
Below."

In the center of the great sea of each of these regions stood a very
ancient sacred place (Te-thlae-shi-na-kwin), a great mountain peak. In
the North was the Mountain Yellow, in the West the Mountain Blue, in the
South the Mountain Red, in the East the Mountain White, above the
Mountain All-color, and below the Mountain Black.

We do not fail to see in this clear reference to the natural colors of
the regions referred to--to the barren north and its auroral hues, the
west with its blue Pacific, the rosy south, the white daylight of the
east, the many hues of the clouded sky, and the black darkness of the
"caves and holes of earth." Indeed, these colors are used in the
pictographs and in all the mythic symbolism of the Zunis, to indicate
the directions or regions respectively referred to as connected with
them.

Then