Tewa visionary journey

p.

encountered in after-death realm

   

3

tip-beetle (stinkbug) on authoress’s corpse

4

flycatcher bird in pin~on

 

4 ravens flying

 

Cricket Spirit speaking

6

Squash Messenger carrying prayers

9

whirlwind transformed authoress-skeleton into cougar

10

cottontail – authoress became rabbit

 

authoress became dragonfly

13

Ash Boy in hearth of Spirit House

16

grasshoppers chased into rabbitbush

 

Brother Porcupine

 

Sister Rattlesnake

 

Brother Badger

 

owls flying

 

Spirit Person in festive attire

18

Buffalo Spirit as friend

22

Brother Wolf

23

Old Man Coyote as attempted rapist of authoress

 

Grandfather Bear deterring rapist

24

Holy Wind calling rattle

25

authoress became a little bear

 

procession of deer became deer-dancers

29

blue-painted Indian elder as drummer

 

out of lake rose blue-painted young man holding blue rattle

 

likewise, blue-painted girl holding blue rattle

30

Blue Water Grandfather demanding feathers

 

fool’s gold glittering rock in deep arroyo

31

pin~on jay birds in olive-tree

32

authoress is carried through tunnel to black rings which become a glowing yellowish green

 

huge cat

 

rabbit

 

small mouse

 

blue-patterned beige boat is folded up by Avanyu dancer

 

unvisited building of authoress’s childhood

 

authoress became hawk

 

buzzard on crag

 

reddish-browned-skirted group of girls dancing

33

up stairway through golden door

37

pinkish brown female spider with its legs banded brown-&-orange [which became woman with hammock – p. 38]

42

sweat lodge, steaming, with sage fragrance

43

flying bats ridden by authoress

 

Dawn Boys & Dawn Maidens, wearing yellow moccasins

44

flying eagle who swallowed authoress

45

2 figures in sleeping bag, with bonnet-like pairs of antlers doffed

 

mountain-range of yellow-&-pink clouds with reverberating rainbows

 

falling through hole in clouds [= hole in sky – p. 46]

47

"Sanctuary of the Stone Lions" [Cougars] in Frijoles Can~on

48

2 cougars became cougarskin-wearing human couple

51

flying swallows

52

outlined masked transparent dancer

 

deermask-wearing transparent dancer

 

marigold-masked green dancer

 

green dancer wearing wreath of speckled blossoms

 

transparent red macaw becoming bird-dancer

 

small transparent limping dancer wearing white flowers of thornapple

53

yellow finch in male willow tree beside yellow lake

 

as drummer, yellow-striped very old man arising out of the yellow water

 

6 pairs of yellow-clad dancers on surface of the lake [at this time, ˝ the allotted 40 days had passed (p. 55)]

57

Grandmother Spider became old-fashioned Hopi-Zun~i grandmother

59

black-clad man beside grey wall

61

"Nothing Face" blank-faced grey-clad man smiting with mattock

63

to summon birds : beating on drum acquired from Old Man Coyote

 

flying green hummingbird

64

crow

 

pin~on jay

 

Mourningdove Woman

 

walking roadrunner bird [holding in its beak a potbellied lizard – p. 65]

66

enormous sacred clown (eyen ringed in black) within basalt can~on

67

black-clad very old woman beside cascade of light

68

carried aloft by blue-&-green zigzag-patterned Avanyu the Rain Serpent

69

falling into crater of active volcano with bluish-grey fire

72

straw-thatched building atop earthen pyramid

72

pink, purple, and golden clouds at Turtle Mountain

77

troop of dark riders

 

faded violet butterflies

 

authoress’s mother [Hungarian – p. 76]

78

authoress’s father & her younger brother

81

robin

 

Rocky Mountain bluebird

 

ruby-chested hummingbird

82

treading water in Large Lake, 4 Wood Spirits wearing featureless brown masks

84

authoress became a horned Buffalo Woman

Felicitas D. Goodman (authoress) : My Last Forty Days. Indiana U. Pr, Bloomington, 1997.