Everywhere were unfinished creatures, crawling like reptiles one over another in filth and black darkness, crowding thickly together and treading each other, one spitting on another or doing other indecency, insomuch that loud became their murmurings... Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States - Page 357by William Henry Holmes - 1896 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
| Franz Boas - Art - 1927 - 446 pages
...womb of sooty depth or of growth-germination, because it was the place of first formation and dark as a chimney at night time, foul too, as the internals...on another or doing other indecency, insomuch that loud became their murmurings and lamentations, until many among them sought to escape, growing wiser... | |
| Hamilton A. Tyler - Social Science - 1964 - 340 pages
...lowermost womb or cave-world, which was Anosin tehuli (the womb of sooty depth or of growth generation, because it was the place of first formation and black...treading each other, one spitting on another or doing some other indecency."41 In Hopi accounts of the emergence the emphasis is not so much on physical... | |
| Jerrold E. Levy - History - 2023 - 284 pages
...form in the lower worlds. The Zunis describe how life in the "lowermost womb or cave world" became overfilled with being. "Everywhere were unfinished...treading each other, one spitting on another or doing some other indecency" ( Cushing 1896, 381 i. The motivation for leaving one world :or another may be... | |
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