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Zuni Bear Fetish
by LancerAdvanced
Digital Art / Vector / Animals©2009-2016 LancerAdvanced
In ancient times, while yet all beings belonged to one family, Póshaiank'ia, the father of our sacred bands, lived with his children in the City of the Mists, the middle place of the Medicine societies of the world.
In the center of the great sea of each of these regions stood a very ancient sacred place Téthläshinakwïn, a great mountain peak. In the North was the Mountain Yellow, in the West the Mountain Blue, in the South the Mountain Red, in the East the Mountain White, above the Mountain All-color, and below the Mountain Black.
Then Póshaiank'ia said to the Bear, "Black Bear, thou art stout of heart and strong of will. Therefore make I thee the guardian and master of the West, for thy coat is of the color of the land of night," that thou guard from that quarter the coming of evil upon my children of men, that thou receive in that quarter their messages to me, that thou become the father in the West of the sacred medicine orders all, that thou become a Maker of the Paths of men's lives."
Frank Hamilton Cushing "Zuni Fetishes"