Green Voices

That our earth mother may wrap herself
in a fourfold robe of white meal;
That she may be covered with frost flowers;
That yonder on all the mossy mountains
The forests may huddle together with the cold;
That their arms may be broken by the snow,
In order that the land may be thus,
I have made my prayer sticks into living beings.
Zuņi Offering
, translated from the Zuņi by Ruth Bunzen
in Introduction to Zuņi Ceremonialism.
Bureau of American Ethnology, 47th Annual Report, 1929-1930.

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