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Title: The Flute of the Gods

Author: Marah Ellis Ryan

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Transcriber's note

In this text, some place and personal names were printed
with a macron over a vowel or vowels. These are shown
in this text as follows. For example [=a] means a
macron appeared over the letter "a" in the text, as in
K[=a]-ye-fah. S[=aa]-hanh-que-ah indicates a single
macron appeared over two consecutive "a" characters in
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THE FLUTE OF THE GODS

by

MARAH ELLIS RYAN

Author of "Told in the Hills," "Indian Love Letters," "The Soul of
Rafael," etc., etc.

Illustrated by Edward S. Curtis

[Illustration: "BY THE ARROW I HAVE SAID IT!" _Page 120_]

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1909
By Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
September, 1909

THE FLUTE OF THE GODS

PREFACE

In romances of the aborigines of the so-called New World there is
usually presented savage man or woman modified as may be by the
influence of European mythologies in various authorized forms. But,
certain people of this New World possessed at least a semi-civilization
centuries before the coming of white conquerors.

When man ceases to be nomadic, builds houses of stone and mortar,
terrace upon terrace,--walled and fortressed against the enemy,--when
he has fields of growing grain, textile fabrics, decorated pottery, a
government that is a republic, a priesthood trained in co