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One of the most aberrant pictures of the sun, which I think can be identified with probability, is shown in the design on the specimen illustrated in plate CXXXIV, b. The reasons which have led me to this identification may briefly be stated as follows: Among the many supernaturals with which modern Hopi mythology is replete is one called Calako-taka, or the male Calako.
In such designs there is commonly a row of dots on each side, which may be represented by a sinuous line, a series of triangles, bars, or parallel bars. The design reproduced in plate CXXXIV, d, represents a moth or butterfly associated with a flower, and several star symbols.
It is interesting to note the similarity in the carved line with six sets of parallel bars to the band surrounding the figure of the human hand shown in plate CXXXVII, c. In attempting to identify the pictograph on the bowl reproduced in plate CXXXIV, a, there is little to guide me, and the nearest I can come to its significance is to ascribe it to a reptile of some kind.
'The world passeth away, and the fashion thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 'Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the House of the Lord. 2. Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary, and bless the Lord. 3. The Lord that made Heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. PSALM cxxxiv.
While an isosceles triangle represents the simplest form of the butterfly symbol, and is common on ancient pottery, a few vessels from Sikyatki show a much more realistic figure. In plate CXXXIV, f, is shown a moth with extended proboscis and articulated antennæ, and in d of the same plate another form, with the proboscis inserted in a flower, is given.
The success of le Batard continues; but I am not impatient, you have promised to come as soon as you are free, at Christmas at the very latest, to keep revel with us. I think only of that, and if you break your word we shall be in despair here. With this I embrace you with a full heart as I love you. G. Sand CXXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Paris Nohant, 30 November, 1869
It would appear that the corn plant or fruit would be found among other designs, especially as corn plays a highly symbolic part in mythic conceptions, but we fail to find it used as a decoration on any ancient vessel. In a figure previously described, a flower, evidently an aster or sunflower, appears with a butterfly, and in the bowl shown in plate CXXXIV, e, we have a similar design.
All this was a source of great wonder to those who saw it. CXXXIV. Ram's Wife.
The meaning of the remaining appendages is unknown, but the likenesses to Calako-taka symbolism are noteworthy and important. The figure on the food bowl illustrated in plate CXXXIV, c, is likewise regarded as a sun emblem. The disk is represented by a ring in the center, to which feathers are appended. The triangle, which is still a sun symbol, is shown below a band across the bowl.
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