1--Yolkai Nali{~COMBINING BREVE~}n, White-Shell Girl
2--Dutli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shi Nali{~COMBINING BREVE~}n, Turquoise Girl
3--Enasho Dilu{~COMBINING BREVE~}hkli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shen, Black Alien Talker
4--Hadintin Nali{~COMBINING BREVE~}n, Pollen Girl
Disc O
1--Hadintin Nali{~COMBINING BREVE~}n, Pollen Girl
2--Nilchidilhkizn, The Wind
3--Yolkai Nalii{~COMBINING BREVE~}n, White-Shell Girl
4 --Yakosha Skhin, Frost Boy
P--Gauncho - Gods
Q--Gaunchine{~COMBINING BREVE~} - Gods
R--Gaun - Gods
S--Gaunchi - Gods
H--Another maltese cross, symbolizing four spirits of the air, who act as
messengers of the gods. They are supposed to communicate with the
medicine-men, bringing to them words of wisdom from the several gods as
they sit and chant in ceremony, or when they are fasting. Their name,
Nigostu{~COMBINING BREVE~}n Bika Binalze, Earth Messengers, indicates that their powers
extend to both the earth and the sky.
I and J symbolize spirits of the air who reveal to the medicine-men the
wonders they claim to know in a priestly way. Such revelations are made to
them in visions as they sit and drum and sing when endeavoring to discover
some new cure for an affliction, or to initiate new customs that might be
pleasing to the gods. The priests often take a medicine skin of this sort
and go out into the mountains, where they fast and sing over it for hours
at a time, awaiting the coming of the spirits.
K--It is supposed that any of the various gods have the power of calling on
the lightning to carry messages from one to the other. Wherever shown in
the symbolism of the Apache, lightning lines are drawn to indicate
communication from one god to another.
Disc L 1--Naye{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani is the first son of Stenatlihan, who was made to
conceive by the sun's rays as she lay asleep on the eastern slope of a
mountain. He is the War God and miracle performer, the culture hero who in
parallel legends appears in many North American aboriginal cults. Great
monsters in the form of giant antelopes, rolling stones, and beasts of
hideous conception are supposed to have inhabited the earth for a time,
destroying its people. These m
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