ening the ceremony for initiating the children begins. The
priest of the Sun, entering the sacred plaza (or square), sprinkles a
broad line of sacred meal from the southeast entrance across the south
side, thence along the western side to the Kiva of the North, and
up the ladderway to the entrance (which is always in the roof), and
then passing over the housetops he goes to the Kiva of the Earth and
sprinkles the meal upon the K[=o]-l[=o]-oo-w[)i]t-si. He then precedes
the K[=o]k-k[=o] to the plaza and deposits a small quantity of yellow
meal on the white line of meal near the eastern entrance. By this spot
the Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya of the North stands, south of the line of
meal. The priest, continuing in advance, deposits a quantity of blue
meal on the line a short distance from the yellow, which indicates the
position for the Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya of the West. In like manner he
indicates the position of the respective Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya with
red meal for the South, white for the East, meal of all colors for
the Heavens, and black meal for the Earth. The remainder of the
K[=o]k-k[=o] take their positions successively along the line of meal.
The K[=o]-y[=e]-m[=e]-shi group in the plaza. The godfathers then pass
along the line of meal, each one holding his godchild on his back by
a blanket, which he draws tightly around him. In olden times tanned
robes of the buffalo were used for this purpose. As he passes the line
of K[=o]k-k[=o] each one strikes the child with his large bunch of
Spanish bayonets. While the Indian from almost infancy looks upon
any exhibition of feeling when undergoing physical suffering as most
cowardly and unmanly, the severity of the pain inflicted by the yucca
switches in this ceremony is at times such as to force tears from the
eyes of the little ones, but a boy over the age of five or six rarely
flinches under this ordeal. After passing the line the godparent
enters the Kiva of the North, where he is met by a priest of the great
fire order, who asks, "Who is your K[=o]k-k[=o]?" When the godfather
replies, he is directed to select his boy's plume. The plumes which
ornament the heads of the figures have been previously wrapped in
corn husks and carried to the priest by the respective godfathers. The
godfather attaches the feather, which is a soft, downy feather of the
eagle, to the scalp-lock of the child. The godparent is then given a
drink of the holy water, which is dipped from the bowl by t