owers, etc., would pertain to
the west and would be second in honor, ... the right foot, pertaining to
the south, would be third in honor, ... the tail to the lower regions and
be sixth in honor; while the heart and navel and centre of the being would
be first as well as last in honor.... In addressing each other the word
symbol for elder or younger is always used.

"With such a system of arrangement as all this maybe seen to be, with such
a facile device for symbolizing the arrangement (not only according to the
number of regions, and their subdivisions in their relative succession and
the succession of their elements and seasons, but also in the colors
attributed to them) and, finally, with such an arrangement of names,
correspondingly classified and of terms of relation significant of rank
rather than of consanguineal connection, mistake in the order of a
ceremonial, a procession or a council is simply impossible and the people
employing these devices may be said to have written and to be writing
their statutes and laws in all their daily relationship and utterances."

If this precious exposition of the Zuni social organization teaches us
more about native method and system than all of the writings of the
Spanish chroniclers put together, there is one important point which,
strangely enough, is not touched upon, namely, the regulation of time. All
information concerning native astronomy, and the subdivision of the years,
the festival periods and the names of days, seems to have been withheld
from Mr. Cushing by the Zuni priesthood, if we are to assume that they
possess a calendar.

In Mexico, as I have already set forth, the calendar system is bound up in
the scheme of social organization and it is impossible to separate them. I
cannot but think that it must be the same with the Zunis but that, as in
ancient Mexico, only the priesthood were acquainted with the existence of
a systematic calendar, and kept it a profound secret from the multitude,
although the entire communal life and activities of the people were guided
accordingly by their rulers, who had arranged a suitable time for all
things, at proper seasons.

Having obtained through Mr. Cushing invaluable material for the making of
a composite image of the ancient American civilization let us now proceed
to Yucatan, bearing in mind the native mode of thought and master-passion
for systematization.

A careful perusal of Cogolludo and Landa's work affords such