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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I am not uakanyi, and can the Hishtanyi Chayan tell me to go along too with the men to strike the Tehuas?" "Certainly, for there are not many of us, and in the Zaashtesh all must stand up for each, and each for all. But when many go on the war-path there are always some of us with them in order that the Shiuana be in our favour." "Do the Shiuana help the Tehuas also?
Again the speaker scattered yellow meal in front of the principal penitent, who only bowed in a dignified manner in response. When each of them had resumed his seat, the Hishtanyi Chayan turned to the tapop and looked inquiringly. Hoshkanyi Tihua assumed an air of solemn importance, for he was to play a prominent rôle.
Heiti-na!" cried the Hishtanyi Chayan aloud. Tyope was in despair. Arrow after arrow was flying past him, rending twigs and shattering branches. The Tehuas shot faster than the Queres. They must have a large supply of missiles. Every shot was accompanied by triumphant yells; the enemy was growing bolder.
The tapop, prompted by a wink of the Hishtanyi Chayan, went into the cave and prepared the council-fire. It burned well, but nobody came. Distant thunder rolled through the clouds; lightning flashed from them in fiery red tongues. The wind continued to blow in gusts, but at long intervals only. Between gust and gust it grew dismally, anxiously, still.
The only man who in the prospective strife between the clans might have taken an attitude dangerous, perhaps disastrous, to his purposes, was now dead; and the office which that man held had become vacant. There was but one individual left in the tribe who might yet prove a stumbling-block to him; that was the Hishtanyi Chayan.
He was the Hishtanyi Chayan, the principal medicine-man of the tribe. Next to him was the Shkuy Chayan, or great shaman for the hunt, equally tall, slender, and with a thin face and quick, unsteady glance. The third, or Shikama Chayan, was an individual of ordinary looks and coarse features, who was decorated by a single upright feather.
Not the dignity of cacique, for that position entailed too many personal sacrifices, and carried with it a life of seclusion and retirement that presented no redeeming features, but the office of hishtanyi chayan, or principal medicine-man, was what the Naua desired to obtain.
Every one set out for the great house, talking together excitedly, but in low voices. The tapop, Tyame, and the two men who had found the body took the lead. The Hishtanyi Chayan and the Shkuy Chayan came last. The nearer they came to the great building, the louder and more dismal sounded the lamentations. The storm was approaching with threatening speed.
They were the same as those which the shaman of the Tehuas was directing to Those Above at the same time and not far from him, but in a different tongue, for the success of his people and the destruction of those for whom the Hishtanyi Chayan was praying. The decision of Tyope to penetrate into the forest to the west brought the Queres into the very position which the Tehuas desired.
"And when your wife was from Tzitz everybody knew that it was not you who supported her, but that she maintained you!" Loud murmurs arose, and the Shkuy Chayan called Tyame to order, so that Tyope did not have time for a reply to this insulting insinuation. Of all the clans represented three had yet to express their views. These were the clans of Yakka, of the Panther, and Shyuamo.
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