Identifier: newmexicolandofd00jamerich (find matches)
Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. For instance, the MountainLion is primarily god of the north, but he is supposedto have younger brothers in each of the five other worlddivisions: in the West the Blue mountain lion; in theSouth the Red; in the East the White; in the UpperRegions the Spotted; in the lower Regions the Black. The result is that one can find a wonderful variety ofthese We-ma-he, made in different colours and material,the yellow of yellow limestone, the blue of finely veinedazurite, or carbonate of copper, the white of white lime-stone, etc. In some cases the eyes are inlaid pieces of turquoise,and the figures are generally smoothly carved and pol-ished with great age and constant usage. The relative value of these fetiches depends largelyupon the rank of the animal god they represent. Forinstance, the mountain lion is not only master of theNorth, which takes precedence over all the other An-cient Sacred Spaces or regions, but is also the masterof all the other Prey Gods, if not of all other terrestrial
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Hunting with Indians in New Mexico 111 animals. Notwithstanding the fact that the Coyote, inthe Order of the Hunt (the Coyote Society) is given, fortraditional reasons, higher sacred rank than the Moun-tain Lion, he is, as a Prey Being, one degree lower, be-ing god of the West, which follows the North in theorder of importance. Hence we find the Mountain Lionand Coyote fetiches far more prized than any of theothers and correspondingly more numerous. The Coyotein rank is younger brother of the Mountain Lion, justas the Wild Cat is younger brother of the Coyote, theWolf of the Wild Cat, and so on to the Mole, and lessimportant ground Owl. In relationship by blood, how-ever, the yellow Mountain Lion is accounted olderbrother of the red, white, yellow, mottled or spotted andblack Coyotes. So the Wild Cat of the South is re-garded as the older brother of the wild cats of all theother five regions and thus it is respectively with thewolf, the eagle, and the mole. We find, therefore, thatin

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