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Oba, Obniu, Opa (people), 40 , 41 , 81 , 299 n1, 305 n3

Ocean crossing, 319 n9

Ocean people, 269 –272

Ocotillo foundation house, 250 –251

Oil, creation by Earth Doctor, 80

Old creation, death of the people in, 75

Old Man mountains, 120

Old woman, as Siuuhu's purifier, 156

"Old Woman's Death" (Hendricks), 278 –280

Ollas, 177

"On Emergence from the Netherworld," 319 –320n11

"Ones-made-big," 204

Oral history, 2 –6

Oral tradition, temporal zones of, 3 , 5 , 291 n1, 292 n5

Oral Tradition as History (Vansina), 2

Oratory, or public speaking, 25 , 155 –156, 309 n1, 315 –316nn16, 17, 317 n5

Origin accounts, 3

Original sin, 180 , 316 –317n3

Origin myths, 35

"Origin of Cactus Wine," 125 –130

"Origin of Irrigation," 124 , 130 –132

"Origin of Irrigation," (Thin Leather), 133 –134

"Origin of the Purification Ceremony and the Strengthening of Medicine Men," 169 –171

Oriole, blue, 221

Owl

creation of, 223

frightening of Hohokam by, 240 c

stealing of nests by, 265

used by medicine men, 321 n20