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Updated: June 22, 2025
We went toward Cuame until we could not see the tracks because it had rained, and the rain had washed them away. To go farther was useless, for whither should we go?" "There are other Zaashtesh farther down the Rio Grande, so the Naua told me," replied Zashue; "but these dwell far, far away," he waved his hand to the south, "where it is very warm and where there are a great many Moshome."
From this circular building faint sounds, as of a drum beaten by a weak or lazy hand, were issuing. The principal Koshare and the Naua had retired thither for recuperation after the dance.
The Shkuy Chayan and the Koshare Naua had declared themselves favourable to their pretensions, but on the other hand the Hishtanyi Chayan and his word had greater weight than their speeches had made a very significant suggestion by reminding the governor in his reply that the matter did not properly come before the tribal council, but should be settled between the two clans directly interested.
"What," said he, "the yaya also?" "Indeed, the Cuirana Naua also. Did not you know it? You are a nice Cuirana." The uncle shook his head. "That is bad, very bad indeed," muttered he. Okoya was perplexed. At last his curiosity overcame all diffidence and he asked, "What is it, satyumishe nashtio? Do you know of anything evil?" Hayoue looked at him and said, "Okoya, you and I are alike.
"No coco " Tyope stopped and looked at the pictures on the wall. It is improper to mention the names of evil powers or agencies in presence of the symbols of Those Above. So he corrected himself and said, "No hapi." "Hapi?" the Naua inquired with a vacant stare, "what sort of hapi? Where did you look for them?" He bent his head, as if trying to remember.
Horror-stricken, they sat in mute silence, awaiting the result of the investigation which the Shkuy Chayan proceeded to carry on. "How do you know that the aniehna" he emphasized the untranslatable word of insult, and his voice trembled with passion "has worked such evil to the people?" The query was directed to the Koshare Naua. The latter turned to Tyope, saying, "Speak, satyumishe nashtio."
"To your father you shall say that I, the Koshare Naua," the boy looked up at him at these words in astonishment, "send word to him through you to come to my house on the night after the one that will follow this day, when the new moon sets behind the mountains. Do you hear me, boy?"
Therefore Hayoue did not speak amiss when, in his interview with Okoya, he accused the Koshare, and principally their leader, of attempting to usurp functions and rights belonging properly to the main official shamans, and thus secure for themselves undue advantages. Tyope and the old Naua had found each other, in accordance with the proverb about birds of a feather.
The Naua, if alive, would certainly not permit his utter ruin. The two conspirators had prevailed upon the Hishtanyi so that only a few of the Delight Makers accompanied the war-party. Of these, two or three had escaped. How had the majority fared, that majority which remained at the Rito for prudence's sake? Tyope dared not ask questions; he went along mutely as if in a dream.
Some had their misgivings concerning the real object of the move which every one felt certain Tyope and the Koshare Naua had set on foot; and when the tapop summoned Tyope to speak at last, there was something like a subdued flutter among the audience. Many turned their heads in the direction of the speaker, others displayed in their features the marks of unusual attention.
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