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From his widely open mouth hung a thirsty mud tongue, and between his knobby knees he held an empty bowl, toward the filling of which his whole expression seemed an invocation. "He is for you," said Lola, beaming artistic gratification. "He is to show my thanks for your caring for me in my broken-bonedness. He is Tesuque, the rain-god. You can let your ditches fill with weeds, if you like.
Before the Easterner could realize what had actually happened, Pete and the strange rider had dismounted and were shaking hands: a transition so astonishing that Forbes forgot to lower his hands and sat with them nervously aloft as though imploring the Rain-God not to forget his duty to mankind. Pete and the stranger were talking.
In Taos are many Tesuques." "I reckon it must rain considerable there," surmised Jane, not unnaturally. Lola shook her head. "No. It's pretty dry but it wouldn't rain at all, you see, if it wasn't for Tesuque!" This logic was irresistible. Jane dwelt smilingly upon it as she set the rain-god on the mantel, with a crockery bowl of yellow daisies to maintain his state.
To the practical mind of John Chinaman, religious observances are made to subordinate themselves to worldly interests. During the time we have been on the station the Shanghai district was once suffering from extreme drought. The rain-god was appealed to still no rain came. Well, what was to be done? This.
Muĭñwa, the rain-god, who lives in the world immediately above, dips his great brush, made of feathers of the birds of the heavens, into the lakes of the skies and sprinkles the earth with refreshing rain for the irrigation of the crops tilled by these curious Indians who live on the cliffs of Arizona.
Thus, when rain is wanted they make a huge dragon of paper or wood to represent the rain-god, and carry it about in procession; but if no rain follows, the mock-dragon is execrated and torn to pieces. At other times they threaten and beat the god if he does not give rain; sometimes they publicly depose him from the rank of deity.
Having thus, for my sins, attained to that impious honor. "God save the king! Confound the Duke of York! To hell with all papists! "It is the fashion of this people to hold that their gods must always be strong and lusty. For they argue to themselves thus: that the continuance of the rain must needs depend upon the vigor and subtlety of its Soul, the rain-god.
The methods commonly employed are mimic representations of rainfall or of a storm. The Australian Arunta have a rain clan whose function is to bring the desired supply by nonsacred dancing festivals and sacred ceremonies. A more advanced method is to dip a stone, as rain-god, into a stream. Certain American tribes assign the duty of rain making to secret societies or to priests.
Boro Duvel, or "Great God," an Old Gipsy term for Water Bishnoo or Vishnu, the Rain-God The Rain, called God's Blood by Gipsies The Snow, "Angel's Feathers."
The Kapus or Reddis are a large caste of cultivators and landowners in the Madras Presidency. When rain fails, women of the caste will catch a frog and tie it alive to a new winnowing fan made of bamboo. On this fan they spread a few margosa leaves and go from door to door singing, "Lady frog must have her bath. Oh! rain-god, give a little water for her at least."
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