**Do not wait until you retire**
LOL Don’t think “retire” is ever going to be in my vocabulary! It’s amazing what “useless” pieces of info stick. I needed a character name for a cook in one of my novels. I typed Vesta and kept typing. A while later, I’m going whoa—what kind of name is Vesta? I googled it. Turns out Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth. Where did I pick that up, and what triggered the memory of it? LOLOLOL Had you asked me point blank what was the name of the Roman goddess of the hearth, I would have drawn a complete blank. Our subconscious is a miraculous thing!
I write—a lot. I have finished a novel in as little as 3 months—if that’s the only one I’m currently working on, which doesn’t happen very often! I write like I read—voraciously single minded.
How I envy you, but keep doing it, one of these days, you will make the right combination and be in print.
It is all the ‘floating facts’ that I have gathered, and don’t know that I know them, that I want downloaded on to the computer, I won’t see that day, but you will.
My friend Mary, would have loved the computer, at 85, she was sharper than I ever was.
Sometimes, I can almost hear her saying, “don’t quit yet, what is at that link?”
Back in the 1970’s, you could buy at the Yuma Goodwill, a big black garbage sack of “fabric scraps”, it was donated by people who had started a sewing project and never finished it, plus scraps and sometimes several yards of fabric, cost was $2.00.
We would buy a sack each month, when we went to town for shopping, then the next week, meet at her house and split it up, what fun it was.
In that week she got to open it and sort it into like piles of fabric, equal if possible.
When I got there, we would take turns choosing a pile.
One night Catherine Brimhall, Mary’s Mormon friend, stopped to bring her something, and we were in the middle of it.
That was my introduction to Catherine, she stayed so late, that Her husband called to see if she was ok....
3 generations of women, dreaming and planning over what was in the bag.
The next couple weeks went by and here is a call from Catherine, “I went to Yuma and bought a bag of scraps, can we meet at Mary’s place?”
Catherine was the school board member, during the cold war, who was talking to the Military man sent to advise them on what to expect, if San Diego was nuked.
So goes life.
[The Elder’s description of how the earth was formed, is interesting and not that far off, “balls piled up” is about what happens when a volcano is active....granny]
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/books/zunibreadstuff/zuni.html
Title: Zuñi Breadstuff
Author: Frank Hamilton Cushing
Publisher: New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
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[Illustration: An illustration of an ornate building entrance framed by American flags.]
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[Illustration: A photograph of a Pueblo community in Southwest America.]
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INDIAN NOTES
AND MONOGRAPHS
VOL. VIII
A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES
ZUÑI BREADSTUFF
[Illustration: An illustration of an official seal.]
> BY
FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING
NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
HEYE FOUNDATION
1920
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THIS series of INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS is devoted primarily to the publication of the results of studies by members of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and is uniform with HISPANIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, published by the Hispanic Society of America, with which organization this Museum is in cordial coöperation.
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ZUÑI BREADSTUFF
BY
FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING
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CONTENTS
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Forward............................................................................ 7
CHAPTER I. Creation, and the Origin of Corn........................................ 17
II. The Origin of the Dragonfly and of the Corn Priests, or Guardians of the Seed.. 55
III. Land Law and Labor............................................................ 125
IV. Corn-raising, or the “Decay of the Seed”....................................... 167
V. Corn-raising, or the Regeneration of the Seed................................... 193
VI. I’-no-te-kwe a-wen I’-tâ-we, or the “Food of the Ancients”............... 216
VII. Na’-na-kwe a-wen I’-tâ-we, or the “Food of the Grandfathers”............ 247
VIII. “The Young Men who were Fond of Parched Corn and Sweet Gruel, or the Four
Awkward Suitors”... 269
IX. Tâ-a I’-â-we, or the “Food of the Seed of Seeds.................... 289
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X. He’-we I’-tâ-we, or the Wafer Foods....................................... 317
XI. Khia’I’-tâ-we, or Wheat Food............................................. 344
XII. Hu’-mu-a K’ia-na-kwe, or the Crooner Bands.................................... 378
XIII. The Story of the Young Hunter................................................ 395
XIV. How He Learned to Hunt........................................................ 414
XV. How He was Divorced........................................................... 445
XVI. How He Twice Returned......................................................... 480
XVII. About Some Indian Meals...................................................... 516
XVIII. More Indian Meals........................................................... 556
XIX. Corn Dances and Festivals..................................................... 587
Notes.............................................................. 630
Index.............................................................. 643
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