Yanáuluha

Role: great Sun-priest · First appears: Section 17 · The Generation of the Seed of Seeds, or the Origin of Corn · Part 2

In Section 8, Yanáuluha brought up water, seeds, growing things and things containing powers of doing from the under-world water of the inner ocean. In Section 9, he struck a staff to reveal four eggs, seeds of moving beings, and sent the macaws from them to the far southward summer-land. He became speaker to the Sun-father, keeper and dispenser of precious things and commandments, and the Earliest Priest of the Sun; he and his sisters became the seed of the priests of the Midmost clan-line, and he and his seed established the priests-keepers of things.

In Section 10, water seed-substance from Yanáuluha descended to the Toad and other water people, while he gave corn-grain seed-substance to the All-seed-people, especially the First-growing-grass and Tobacco people. In Section 17, Yápotuluha, of the clans of Water, is named as his foster-child.

Relationship record

Life events

• Yanáuluha brought up water, seeds, growing things, and things containing the powers of doing.(Section 8 · The Origin of Priests and of Knowledge · 📍 under-world water of the inner ocean)
  • “Yanáuluha, who brought up from the under-world water of the inner ocean, and seeds of life-production and growing things; in gourds he brought these up, and also things containing the ‘of-doing-powers.’”
• Yanáuluha struck the staff and revealed four eggs, the seeds of moving beings.(Section 9 · The Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and Summer)
  • “Then he balanced it in his hand and struck with it a hard place and blew upon it. Amid the plumes appeared four round things, seeds of moving beings, mere eggs were they, two blue like the sky or turkis; two dun-red like the flesh of the Earth-mother.”
• Yanáuluha sent the macaws to the far southward summer-land.(Section 9 · The Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and Summer)
  • “And the other eggs held by those who had waited and by their father Yanáuluha, became gorgeous macaws and were wafted by him with a toss of his wand to the far southward summer-land.”
• Yanáuluha became a speaker to the Sun-father and keeper and dispenser of precious things and commandments.(Section 9 · The Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and Summer)
  • “Hence, Yanáuluha their father, being wise, saw readily the light and ways of the Sun-father, and being made partaker of his breath, thus became among men as the Sun-father is among the little moons of the sky; and speaker to and of the Sun-father himself, keeper and dispenser of precious things and commandments, Pékwi Shíwani Éhkona (and Earliest Priest of the Sun).”
• Yanáuluha and his sisters became the seed of the priests of the Midmost clan-line.(Section 9 · The Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and Summer)
  • “He and his sisters became also the seed of all priests who pertain to the Midmost clan-line of the priest-fathers of the people themselves ‘masters of the house of houses.’”
• Yanáuluha and his seed established the priests-keepers of things.(Section 9 · The Origin of the Raven and the Macaw, Totems of Winter and Summer)
  • “By him also, and his seed, were established and made good the priests-keepers of things.”
• Yanáuluha's water seed-substance descended to the Toad and other water people.(Section 10 · The Origin and Naming of Totem-Clans and Creature Kinds, and the Division and Naming of Spaces and Things)
  • “So, to the Toad and other water people, descended to them from Yanáuluha the k‘yáetone, or the contained seed-substance of water”
• Yanáuluha gave the contained seed-substance of corn grains to the All-seed-people, especially the First-growing-grass and Tobacco people.(Section 10 · The Origin and Naming of Totem-Clans and Creature Kinds, and the Division and Naming of Spaces and Things)
  • “and to the Átâa-kwe, or All-seed-people, especially to the First-growing-grass people and the Tobacco people, was given of him also, the chúetone, or the contained seed-substance of corn grains.”

Section 17 · The Generation of the Seed of Seeds, or the Origin of Corn · Part 2

• foster-child: Yápotuluha “Yápotuluha, of the clans of Water, foster child of the great Sun-priest Yanáuluha, and named of him.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths. Made with Rho MD.