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 |
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Cricket Spirit speaking |
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6 |
Squash Messenger carrying prayers |
9 |
whirlwind transformed authoress-skeleton into cougar |
10 |
cottontail – authoress became rabbit |
authoress became dragonfly |
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13 |
Ash Boy in hearth of Spirit House |
16 |
grasshoppers chased into rabbitbush |
Brother Porcupine |
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Sister Rattlesnake |
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Brother Badger |
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owls flying |
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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 |
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likewise, blue-painted girl holding blue rattle |
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30 |
Blue Water Grandfather demanding feathers |
fool’s gold glittering rock in deep arroyo |
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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 |
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rabbit |
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small mouse |
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blue-patterned beige boat is folded up by Avanyu dancer |
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unvisited building of authoress’s childhood |
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authoress became hawk |
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buzzard on crag |
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reddish-browned-skirted group of girls dancing |
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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 |
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falling through hole in clouds [= hole in sky – p. 46] |
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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 |
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marigold-masked green dancer |
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green dancer wearing wreath of speckled blossoms |
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transparent red macaw becoming bird-dancer |
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small transparent limping dancer wearing white flowers of thornapple |
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53 |
yellow finch in male willow tree beside yellow lake |
as drummer, yellow-striped very old man arising out of the yellow water |
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6 pairs of yellow-clad dancers on surface of the lake [at this time, ˝ the allotted 40 days had passed (p. 55)] |
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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 |
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64 |
crow |
pin~on jay |
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Mourningdove Woman |
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walking roadrunner bird [holding in its beak a potbellied lizard – p. 65] |
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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 |
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authoress’s mother [Hungarian – p. 76] |
|
78 |
authoress’s father & her younger brother |
81 |
robin |
Rocky Mountain bluebird |
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ruby-chested hummingbird |
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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.