In
Zuñi mythology
Zuni religion is the oral history, cosmology, and religion of the Zuni people. The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in New Mexico. Their religion is integrated into their daily lives and respects ancestors, nature, and animals. , the Aihayuta are a 2nd pair of
twin
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-brother
hero
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es who complement the 1st set of twin-brother heroes, the
Ahayuta.
In literature
* "Parsons uses ''Aihayuta'' to refer to the second pair of Twins who were generated at ''
Hanlhibinkya'' while the people were searching for the
Center Place."
* "Bunzel (1932 : 597) states that the second pair ... were generated by a
waterfall
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of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
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at ''Hanlhibinkya''."
* "D. Tedlock (1972 : 225–69) gives the names ''Uyuyuwi'' and ''Ma’asewi'' to the pair of Twins who were created while the people were searching for the Center Place".
[M. Jane Young : "Morning Star, Evening Star : Zuni Traditional Stories", p. 94, n. 3. In Ray A. Williamson & Claire R. Farrer : ''Earth & Sky : Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore''. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1992. pp. 75–100 ]
Notes
References
* Bunzel, Ruth L. : "Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism". ''Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, for the years 1929–1930''. pp. 467–1086. Washington (DC), 1932.
* Parsons, Elsie C. : "The Origin Myth of the Zuñi". ''Journal of American Folklore'' 36 (1923) : 135–62.
* Tedlock, Dennis : ''Finding the Center : Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians''. NY : Dial Press, 1972.
Zuni mythology
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