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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Is that so!" said the Road-Runner, which is a polite way of saying that you think the story worth going on with; and then cocking his eye at the inscription, he hinted, "I have heard that the Long Gowns, the Padres who came with them, were master-workers in hearts." "It is so," said the Condor. "I remember the first of them who managed to build a church here, Padre Francisco Letrado. Here!"
Witchcraft and sorcery he called it, and in Zuni to be accused of witchcraft is death. "The people did not know what to do. They prayed secretly where they could. The Priests of the Rain went on with their preparations, and the soldiers of Father Letrado for he had a small detachment with him broke up the dance and profaned the sacred places. Those were hard days for Ho-tai the Two-Hearted.
"There is a Telling of that passing and of that soldier which has to do with the gold that was never found." "Sons eso," said the Road-Runner, and they settled themselves to listen. "About the third of a man's life would have passed between the time when Onate came to the founding of Santa Fe, and the building of the first church by Father Letrado.
But it was not until Father Letrado's time that it began to be understood that the new religion was to take the place of their own, for to the Indians there is but one spirit in things, as there is one life in man. They thought their own prayers as good as any that were taught them. "But Father Letrado was zealous and he was old.
She was unhappy because she saw that the dead hand of Father Letrado was still heavy on her husband's heart. "Not that Ho-tai feared what the soldiers from Santa Fe might do to the slayer, but what the god of the Padre might do to the whole people. He saw doom hanging over K'iakime, and his wife could not comfort him.
Father Martin who passed there in the moon of the Sun Returning, on his way to establish a mission among the People of the Coarse Hanging Hair, reported to his superior that Father Letrado was ripe for martyrdom. "It came the following Sunday, when only Ho-tai and a few old women came to mass.
You hear them calling from the house-tops, and the beat of bare feet on the dancing places. But the summer after Father Letrado built his chapel of the Immaculate Virgin at Halona and the chapel and parish house of the Immaculate Conception at Hawikuh, he set his face against the Rain Dance, and especially against the Priests of the Rain.
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