This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.During the earlier years of my life with the Zuñi Indians of western-central New Mexico, from the autumn of 1879 to the winter of 1881—before access to their country had been rendered easy by the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, —they remained, as regards their social and religious institutions and customs and their modes of thought, if not of daily life, the most archaic of the Pueblo or Aridian peoples. They still continue to be, as they have for centuries been, the most highly developed, yet characteristic and representative of all these people. of Spanish-zuñi HistoryOutline of Pristine Zuñi HistoryOutline of ZuñiMytho-sociologic OrganizationMythsThe Genesis of the Worlds, or the Beginning of NewnessThe Genesis of Men and the CreaturesThe Gestation of Men and the CreaturesThe Forthcoming From Earth of the Foremost of MenThe Birth From the Sea of the Twain Deliverers of MenThe Birth and Delivery of Men and the CreaturesThe Condition of Men When First Into the World of Daylight BornThe Origin of Priests and of KnowledgeThe Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and SummerThe Origin and Naming of Totem-clans and Creature Kinds, and the Division and Naming of Spaces and ThingsThe Origin of the Councils of Secrecy or Sacred BrotherhoodsThe Hardening of the World, and the First Settlement of MenThe Beginning of the Search for the Middle of the World, and the Second Tarrying of MenThe Learning of War, and the Third TarryingThe Meeting of the People of Dew, and the Fourth TarryingThe Generation of the Seed of Seeds, or the Origin of Corn