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Beilage IV 59
given its appropriate color and number, according to its relation to one of the
regions I have named or to others of those regions.... Again, each region —
at least each of the four cardinal regions, namely, north, west, south, and east
— is the home or center of a special element, as well as one of the four
seasons each element produces. Thus the north is the place of wind, breath,
or air, the west of water, the south of fire, and the east of earth; correspondingly,
the north is of course the place of winter or its origin, the west of spring, the
south of Summer, and the east of autumn.... By means of this arrangement
no ceremonial is ever performed and no council ever held in which there is
the least doubt as to the position which a member of a given clan shall occupy
in it, for according to the season for which the ceremonial is held, or according
to the reason for which a council is convened, one or another of the clan groups
of one or another of the regions will take precedence for the time; the natural
sequence being, however, first the north, second the west, third the south, fourth
the east, fifth the upper, and sixth the lower; but first as well as last, the middle. . ..
... In strict accordance with succession of the four seasons and their
elements, and with their supposed relationship to these, are classified the four
fundamental activities of primitive life, namely, as relating to the north and its
masterfulness and destructiveness in cold, is war and destruction; relating to
the west is war eure and hunting; to the south, husbandry and medicine; to
the east, magic and religion; while the above, the below, and the middle relate
in one way or another to all these divisions. As a consequence the societies
of cold and winter are found to be grouped, not rigidly, but at least theoretic-
ally, in the northern clans, and they are respectivelly: 'H16we-kwe, Ice-wand
people or band; Ächia-kwe, Knife people or band; Kä'shi-kwe, Cactus people
or band; for the west: Pi'hla-kwe, Priesthood of the Bow or Bow people or
band (Äpi'hlan Shiwani, Priests of the bow); Yaniyak 'ya-kwe, Priesthood
of the Hunt or Coyote people or band; for the south: Mäke'Hläna-kwe, Great
fire (ember) people or band; Mäketsäna-kwe, Little fire (ember) people or
band; of the east: Shiwana-kwe, Priests of the Priesthood people or band;
Uhuhu-kwe, Cottonwood down people or band; Shume-kwe, or Ka'kä'hlana-kwe,
Bird-monster people or band, otherwise known as the Great Dance-drama people
or band; for the upper region: N6we-kwe, Galaxy people or band or the All-
consumer or Scavenger people or band (or life preservers); and for the lower
regions: Chitola-kwe, Rattlesnake people or band, generators (or life makers).
Finally, as produced from all the clans and as representative alike of all the
clans and through a tribal septuarchy of all regions and divisions in the mid-
most, and finally as representative of all the cult societies above mentioned is
the Ka'ka or Äkäkä-kwe or Mythic Dance drama people or organization. It
may be seen of these mytho-sociologic organizations that they are a System
within a system, and that it contains also systems within systems, all founded
on this classification according to the six-fold division of things, and in turn
the six-fold division of each of these division of things. To such an extent,
indeed, is carried this tendency to classify according to the number of the six
regions with its seventh synthesis of them all (the latter sometimes apparent,
sometimes nonappearing) that not only are the subdivisions of the societies also
again subdioided according to this arrangement, but each clan is subdivided
both according to such a six-fold arrangement and according to the sub-
sidiary relations of the six parts of its totem. The tribal division made up
of the clans of the north takes precedence ceremonially, occupying the
given its appropriate color and number, according to its relation to one of the
regions I have named or to others of those regions.... Again, each region —
at least each of the four cardinal regions, namely, north, west, south, and east
— is the home or center of a special element, as well as one of the four
seasons each element produces. Thus the north is the place of wind, breath,
or air, the west of water, the south of fire, and the east of earth; correspondingly,
the north is of course the place of winter or its origin, the west of spring, the
south of Summer, and the east of autumn.... By means of this arrangement
no ceremonial is ever performed and no council ever held in which there is
the least doubt as to the position which a member of a given clan shall occupy
in it, for according to the season for which the ceremonial is held, or according
to the reason for which a council is convened, one or another of the clan groups
of one or another of the regions will take precedence for the time; the natural
sequence being, however, first the north, second the west, third the south, fourth
the east, fifth the upper, and sixth the lower; but first as well as last, the middle. . ..
... In strict accordance with succession of the four seasons and their
elements, and with their supposed relationship to these, are classified the four
fundamental activities of primitive life, namely, as relating to the north and its
masterfulness and destructiveness in cold, is war and destruction; relating to
the west is war eure and hunting; to the south, husbandry and medicine; to
the east, magic and religion; while the above, the below, and the middle relate
in one way or another to all these divisions. As a consequence the societies
of cold and winter are found to be grouped, not rigidly, but at least theoretic-
ally, in the northern clans, and they are respectivelly: 'H16we-kwe, Ice-wand
people or band; Ächia-kwe, Knife people or band; Kä'shi-kwe, Cactus people
or band; for the west: Pi'hla-kwe, Priesthood of the Bow or Bow people or
band (Äpi'hlan Shiwani, Priests of the bow); Yaniyak 'ya-kwe, Priesthood
of the Hunt or Coyote people or band; for the south: Mäke'Hläna-kwe, Great
fire (ember) people or band; Mäketsäna-kwe, Little fire (ember) people or
band; of the east: Shiwana-kwe, Priests of the Priesthood people or band;
Uhuhu-kwe, Cottonwood down people or band; Shume-kwe, or Ka'kä'hlana-kwe,
Bird-monster people or band, otherwise known as the Great Dance-drama people
or band; for the upper region: N6we-kwe, Galaxy people or band or the All-
consumer or Scavenger people or band (or life preservers); and for the lower
regions: Chitola-kwe, Rattlesnake people or band, generators (or life makers).
Finally, as produced from all the clans and as representative alike of all the
clans and through a tribal septuarchy of all regions and divisions in the mid-
most, and finally as representative of all the cult societies above mentioned is
the Ka'ka or Äkäkä-kwe or Mythic Dance drama people or organization. It
may be seen of these mytho-sociologic organizations that they are a System
within a system, and that it contains also systems within systems, all founded
on this classification according to the six-fold division of things, and in turn
the six-fold division of each of these division of things. To such an extent,
indeed, is carried this tendency to classify according to the number of the six
regions with its seventh synthesis of them all (the latter sometimes apparent,
sometimes nonappearing) that not only are the subdivisions of the societies also
again subdioided according to this arrangement, but each clan is subdivided
both according to such a six-fold arrangement and according to the sub-
sidiary relations of the six parts of its totem. The tribal division made up
of the clans of the north takes precedence ceremonially, occupying the