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Updated: May 5, 2025
"They moved off, and the wind walking on the pine needles covered what they said, but I remembered what I had heard because they smelled of mischief. "Two nights later I remembered it again when the Delight-Makers came out of the dark in three bands and split the people's sides with laughter.
"Still, Kokomo should have known better than to try to make him one of the Koshare, for though laughter followed my master as ripples follow a skipping stone, he laughed little himself. "Who were the Koshare? They were the Delight-Makers; one of their secret societies. They daubed themselves with mud and white paint to make laughter by jokes and tumbling.
The Queres Indians live all along the Rio Grande in pueblos, since there is no need of their living now in the cliffs. You can read about them at Ty-uonyi in "The Delight-Makers." A kiva is the underground chamber of the house, or if not underground, at least without doors, entered from the top by means of a ladder.
Now, I thought you would have preferred the Uakanyi, just as if she did not know that there was little else he thought of. "Tse-tse pulled up the dry grass and tossed it into the water. 'In the old days, he said, 'I have heard that Those Above sent the Delight-Makers to make the people laugh so that the way should not seem long, and the Earth be fruitful.
"It was a day or two after I had learned it, that we met Willow-in-the-Wind feeding her turkey flock by the Rito as we came from hunting, and she scolded Tse-tse for making fun of Kokomo. "'It is plain, she said, 'that you are trying to get yourself elected to the Delight-Makers.
But now the jests of the Koshare are scorpions, each one with a sting in its tail for the enemies of the Delight-Makers. I had sooner strike mine with a knife or an arrow. "'Enemies, yes, said Willow-in-the-Wind, 'but you cannot use a knife on those who sit with you in Council. You know very well that Kokomo wishes to be chief in place of Pitahaya.
There were also Shamans of hunting, of medicine and priestcraft. It was while the Queres were on their way from Shipapu that the Delight-Makers were sent to keep the people cheerful. The white mud with which they daubed themselves is a symbol of light, and the corn leaves tied in their hair signify fruitfulness, for the corn needs cheering up also.
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