- Big Hand
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- Song Cycles 1-3
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- Painted Earth
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- Corn Tassel...
- Enchanted Ruins
- Clan Ancestors
- The Ancient Way
- Canyon Echo
- On the Wind
- The Aerie High
- The Song of Kokopelli
- Gone a'Viking
- The North Atlantic Graveyard
- In Old Norse Tongue
- The Evergreen Tree
- Of Standing Stones
- By the Midnight Sun
- Cooking the Heart
- Greybeard
- Bear-Pelted, Wolf-Coated (Berserkir, Ulfhednar)
- Lindisfarne
- Beringia
- On the Land Bridge
- Wave-Swept, Wind-Blown
- Gone the Swan
- Deerdancers
- Grey Whales!
- Song of the Sasquatch
- skull/antler/bone
- Shangri-La
- Flower Arrows (The Bear-Sending Ceremony)
- Cloud People
- The Grass Returns
- The Wedding of Squash Blossom
- Footpaths, Handholds
- Canyon Dry, Mesa High
- To Catch an Eagle
- Hopi, Hoho, Hopi
- Old Oraibi
- Milagros
- The Sparrow's Song
- Dance of the Kachinas
- The Algonquin of Lacrosse
- Dreaming the Hunt
- Smudge with Sage, Sweat with Smoke
- On Gallows Tree
- Manitou
- test
- The Rolling of Thunder
- Thirteen Moons
- Henry Thoreau
- Cedar Red Canoe
- Yellow Green & Blue
- Serpentine Tor
- Mbuti
- All Hallows' Eve Race of the Green Pumpkin Men
- The Totem Dreams of Cedar
- Relics My Ancestors Left Behind
- A Trout Streaming Light
- The Royal Hawaiians
- The Sounds of Sea and Sky
- The Falls of the Water Dragon
- The Tale of Ursa Minor
- The Song of the Great Beyond
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Dance of the Kachinas
Clan Rock from the Salt Trail
Chorus
The San Francisco Peaks
El Rio Grande seeks
The Sunset Crater glows
on cinder lava flows
The Colorado Salts
meet at the canyon's faults
The Four Corners divide
the center circles wide
I. Wuwuchim
The Crier Chief of Clans
announces the New Year
The "grow up" for young men
opens them to Hopi
The elders close the roads
the old fires extinguished
The new fire is kindled
prayers, songs, dances play out
The path is kept open
for the dead ancestors
The kachinas emerge
from the underworld
The Blue Star Kachina
is the most powerful
He is the god of death
the god of fire and darkness
The mask is taken off
to mark the cycle's end
The hair of the deceased
washed for the soul's journey
The stars on their foreheads
line up with the mesas
The time for growth in youth
the underworld god rules
The kindling of the fire
the prayers, songs and dances
The kachinas emerge
from holes in floors and roofs
The new fire lit by sticks
birthed of flint and friction
The ancstors hair washed
with yucca at their death
II. The One Horns, the Two Horns, the Singers
The One Horns and Two Horns,
the Singers guide the Way
The One Horns name Bear chief,
the Enforcers of Law
The Two Horns mouth-to-ear
speak with God for Hopi
The Singers consecrate
by chanting and dancing
III. Soyal, Winter Solstice Ceremony
Soyal Mastop
The prayer ceremony
tidings of the new year
The feathers and pinyon
needles tied to pahos
The willow branch sticks tied
with feathers, evergreens
The chief wears a headdress
of clouds and shield with star
The shield and sun bearers
fight the darkest of days
The plumed snake growls in battle
poking its head around
The black snake represents
the sun driven away
The snake is persuaded
"not to swallow the sun"
Without soyaluna
the sun may never come back
The dances, songs and sun light
were timed by the three stars
The stars above proclaim:
winter solstice is made.
The clown celebrate joy
distributing all gifts
Mastop Hemis
IV. The Clowns and Crow Mother
The black-winged Crow Mother
sings a quiet, frail song
The basket of winter sprouts
with beans in solstice light
The children try to hide
fearing the Whippers lash
The blows and stings leave welts
reminding then to be good
V. Powamuya, Bean Dance Ceremony
The masks painted with beans
shows sprouts planted in ice
The ancestors masked in
and cowrie shell leggings
The dolls carved, rattles made,
bows and arrows for boys
Pika bread, bean sprout soup,
made ready for the feast
The bird, beast, plant may mask
The yucca whip with curls
feathers the squash blossoms
The witch with crook and blade,
hooting, whistling, coughing
The Hopi's wish for rain
VI. The Ogres Are Coming! The Ogres Are Coming!
The gourd rattles small stones
the drum beats the deerskin
The rhythm of swaying
heard with beats in kiva
The Soyoko Whuti
the Ogress Mother hoots, growls
Floggings, whippings, loud shouts
fangs, red tongues, long beaks clack
The Ogres are coming, no doubt!
The Ogres are coming, no doubt!
Chants, laughs, armed with axes
breaks, knocks, drilling noises
The Ogress Mother grinds
smacking her lips, slurps
Possessions seized, clothes torn
ripped off, shredded, trash alone
The children are punished
for errors, transgressions
VII. The Ogres Are Here! The Ogres Are Here!, Part One
Clowns, Ogres, Whippers, the owl scolds
the clowns are warned
The yucca whip blade, a grass thorn
fools ignore warnings
Giant mouth clacks, bells, jugglers balls
a caution of wrong and rights, alarms
The shenanigans of the clowns say
they men are not spirits
VIII. The Ogres are Here! The Ogres Are Here!, Part Two
The Soyal losing balance, falling,
settling into twilight blue
Hissing, laughing the Ogres smile
the game, the play of monsters
Kachinas open alldancing groups
the only act-spirit burlesque
The sprinkling of water, blowing, bubbling
smoke from clay pipes, prayer feathers
Yellow northwest, the sky blue southwest
the white northeast, red southeastern +/-
Purple north, speckled southern +/-
corncobs, melons, gourds, beans, clouds
Thunder the drums of deerskin, gourds-bells
hammer beats rollimg, chant-rhymes
The spruce tree with upturned branches for rain
raiment the spirits Hopi:
The mouth to ear, transmission spoken
The One Horn-Enforcer, Two Horned the-
Philosopher, Singer-
...
Yellow corn, pacific northwest
Red corn, atlantic southeast
Blue corn, desert southwest
White corn, arctic northeast Purple corn, upward sky
Speckled corn, downward earth
The roads closed, fires put out
death the god, no visits
The whistling noises, clacks, coughs, chants
the sawing of rings, bells
IX.Talangma, Niman, Home Going Ceremony
The bullroarer, the gourd grasps rain
Aholi befriends all
The home-going of the gods
the father, Etoto
The kachinas return to rain
the eagles must fly home
The source of moisture, trees and herbs
the dreams of summer mist
...
The San Francisco Peaks await
a special reverence
Sharp-eyed eagles guard Hopiland
prayer feathers the raiment
Last crops in, first crops out
rituals in silence
The water drops flinged, clay pipe smoked
the eagle feather flies home
X. The Flute Ceremony
In the ancestral rooms of the flute
the warrior swings the bullroarer as thunder
The prayers for rain and corn, songs, cloud smoke
Kokopelli goes from clan to clan
bringing harvest with snakes
Birds fly, the grass retuns, rain for drought
The zigzags flash lightning
...
The honey pot, corn meal, gourds of water
sacred meal, good weather
XI. The Snake Ceremony
Choruses
The San Francisco Peaks
El Rio Grande seeks
The Sunset Crater glows
in cinder lava flows
The Colorado Salts
at the canyon's faults
The Four Corners divide
square to circle statewide
Betatakin Ruins
I. Soyalangwul, Winter Solstice Ceremony,
"Establishing Life Anew for All the World" Part One
The host of ghosts, the stars frost cold
the dancers drift in dreams
The winter dead, the sun asleep
the springtime path awaits
The lone man lurches and lumbers
in his old deerskin shirt
The warrior whirls, his bull roarer
the Soyal muted sings
II. Soyalangwul, Winter Solstice Ceremony, Part Two
The Mastops clown, the white hands grope
the women young and old
The shield with star and antelope,
the plumed snake effigy
The dancing troupe, the Qoqolos
clowning, shooting marbles
The shoulder blades, the bows homemade
for fiddle works, gut strings
The peaches and melons, fruits first
water bowls, blessings cast
The ceremonial pipe, smoke
clouds, good tobacco grade
The gifts for children, bows, arrows
kachina dolls, prayer sticks
The chief kachina, Soyal dancing
as he came, now he goes
III. Powamuya, Bean Dance Ceremony
The Aholi opens the chambers
the sands with seeds of hope
The moccasins, the cowrie shells
the old masks painted new
The dancing wands, the lightning sticks
the secret fires of night
The kiva smoke, the forehead sight
corn free of fungus smut
The rusted can, the wrinkled face
the drop of moisture placed
The snow melt, the arroyos full
the wind directionless
The grass returns, the humid bean
the shapes of seeds, shoots, sprouts
The kachinas march at solstice
the harvest thanks given
IV. The Crow Mother
The black-winged robed, the Crow Mother
the basket of bean sprouts
The Whippers' blows, the yucca welts
the hoots of child nicknames
The Soyoko, her crook with knife
the bad child pulled from home
The Ogres loud/their laughter shrill
the floggings just and wise
V. The Ogres Are Coming! The Ogres Are Coming!
The Ogres are coming! The Ogres are coming!
The pollen smell, the flower blooms
sweet honey from petal
Soyok Wuhti with ugly face
hooting, whistling, snears
Ritual flogging, whipping, shouts
fangs, red tongues, large beaks clack
The Ogres are coming, no doubt!
The Ogres are coming, no doubt!
Chants, hoots, armed with knives and axes
beaks, knocks, drilling noises
Ogre Woman (Wuhti) smacks lips
lugubrious, terrifying
Awful sounds, a child's
The Ogres are here! The Ogres are here!
VI. The Ogres Are Here! The Ogres Are Here!
The Ogres are here! The Ogres are here!
Clowns, Ogres, Whippers (dance horror)
the clowns are warned
The yucca whip blade, a grass thorn
gluttonous, lascivious girls
Turtle shell clacks, bells, jugglers balls
a warning of wrong and rights, alarms
Windbreaks an early spring of rites
cornmeal, shelling, winnowing, washed
Soyal losing balance, awkward ,
coming into light after dark
Mastops simulate intercourse
a blessing in fertility
Quqolo opens dancing groups
first act in burlesque theater
Yellow northwest, sky blue southwest
white northeast, red southeast +/-
Purple north, speckled south +/-
corncobs,melons, gourds, beans, clouds
Thunder drums of deerskin, gourds-bells
hammer thunder, song, chant-rhymes prayer
The spruce tree with upturned branches
a throne for the clouds...for raindrops
Hopi: mouth to transmission of ear-wisdom
One Horn-Enforcer, Two Horn-Philosopher
Singer-Concecrater
Yellow corn, pacific nortwest
Red corn, atlantic southeast
Blue corn, desert southwest
White corn, arctic northeast
Purple corn, upward sky
Speckled corn, downward earth
The roads closed off, the fires put out
the god of death, no visitors
The whistling noises, the clacks and chants
the sawing of jumping bells
The Witch Mother
VI.The Soyohim/Anktioni
The woody stalk, the agave
the shield beaver, at dawn
Squash blossoms in hair, white kilts, sash
leggings with shells, corn dance
Ruff of feathers, fir, spruce 'rounds neck
eagle, motion of birds
VII.Talangma, Niman, Home Going Ceremony
The bullroarer, the gourd grasps rain
Aholi befriends all
The home-going of the gods
the father, Etoto
The Hemis yield to skies
the eagles must fly home
The blue spruce twigs/holy priests come
the dreams of summer mist
VII. Tala'paamuya, Snake Dance and Flute Ceremony
The snakes in shades, the rain makers
the watchers of springs
The snakes, powerful
The footracers/the rattlesnakes
serpent priests fond of snake shrines
The footracers/the coiled snakes
serpent priests find home-shrines
