Note 662 — Chapter VI · LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK
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The Zuñi priests preserve a ceremonial diagram of the seven “Ancient Spaces,” or primeval cosmogonic areas, representing north, east, south, west, the zenith, the nadir, and the middle. The observer is always supposed to stand in the central space. For illustrations of the seven-cult among the American Indians see J. W. Powell, in F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales, New York, 1901, pp. xii sq.; S. Hagar, “Cherokee Star-lore,” in Boas Anniversary Volume, New York, 1906, p. 361; J. O. Dorsey, in Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 397 (Osage, Kansa, Omaha, Dakota, and Ponka tribes); Jean L’Heureux, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1886, xv, 303 (Blackfoot); D. G. Brinton, The Lenâpé and their Legends, Philadelphia, 1885, pp. 139 sq.