Preferred Citation: Bahr, Donald, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden. The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5z09p0dh/


 

B

Baboquivari Mountain, 149 , 228 , 313 n8

Baby tears, as cause of flood, 67

Bad dreams, driving away of, 244 c

Badger, stealing cactus seeds by, 107

Ball courts and games, 10 , 298 n5, 307 n7

Basket making, dream sign about, 82

Battles.

See also War

with Apaches, 11 , 170 –171, 276 –277

in Gila and Salt River valleys, 203

at "great-houses," 6 –7

Bead making, 82

Beans, Siuuhu's creation of, 84

Bear, man with the power of, 50

Beater Wind, 171 –175. See also Bitter Wind

Bierhorst, John, 17 , 294 –295n12, 296 n18

Big Mountain, 263 –264

Birth. See Parenthood, versus creation


334

Bitter Man, 33 –35, 37 –38, 41 , 297 n3. See also Siwañ

"Bitter Man, The" (Governor of Uturituc), 33 –36

"Bitter Man, The" (Manje's Guides), 37 –38

Bitter pumpkin, 94

Bitter Wind, 136 , 154 , 156 , 315 nn10, 11

Biveschool (bird), 103 , 104

Black Beetle, 60 –61

Black-eyed peas, creation of, 85

"Black house," 303 n9

Black Sinew Chief, 41 , 204 , 205 , 320 n12

attack on, 258 –259

conquest of, 235 –262

magic line drawn by, 261

"Black Sinew Chief, His Basket, and Kokoñip" (Thin Leather/Russell), 258 –260

Black Water, 31

Blood debt, 298 –299n6

Bluebird, 117

powers of, 103 –104

Bluebird man, 251 –252

Bluebird medicine man, 243

Blue Light, 117

Boiling ground, land of, 272 –273

Book of Mormon, 19 –22, 295 –296nn14, 15, 16

Bostwick, Todd, 292 n6

"Boy Gambler, the Man-Eagle, and the Origin of White Culture," 157 –169

Broomweed, 164 n

Brown Buzzard, 172 –173, 232 . See also Buzzard

Brown Mountain, 190

Brumble, H. David, 291 n1

Burial, origin of, 94

Bushes, creation of, 54 , 303 n5

Butterfly, 119

Buzzard

authority of, 52 c

capture of, 41 –42, 205 , 224 –227, 232 –233, 318 n2

creation of, 51 –52

Earth Doctor's hopes for, 55 , 302 n3

examination of Giant Cactus by, 107

home of, 192 , 204 –205, 318 n2

killing of Siuuhu by, 184 –186, 192 –195

loss of power of, 227

punishment of, 225 –226, 232

pursuit of, 222 –223

as sun god, 41 –42, 302 n3, 315 nn14, 15

wicked scheme of, 226 –227

Buzzard moiety, 310 n3, 320 n13

By-av-chu-luv (bird), 113 –114 song of, 118


 

Preferred Citation: Bahr, Donald, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden. The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5z09p0dh/