Zuni Badger Fetish

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In ancient times, while yet all beings belonged to one family, Póshaiank'ia, the father of our sacred bands, lived with his children in the City of the Mists, the middle place of the Medicine societies of the world. In the center of the great sea of each of these regions stood a very ancient sacred place Téthläshinakwïn, a great mountain peak. In the North was the Mountain Yellow, in the West the Mountain Blue, in the South the Mountain Red, in the East the Mountain White, above the Mountain All-color, and below the Mountain Black. To the Badger , "Thou art stout of heart but not strong of will. Therefore make I thee the guardian and master of the South, for thy coat is ruddy and marked with black and white equally, the colors of the land of summer, which is red, and stands between the day and the night, and thy homes are on the sunny sides of the hills," that thou guard from that quarter the coming of evil upon my children of men, that thou receive in that quarter their messages to me, that thou become the father in the South of the sacred medicine orders all, that thou become a Maker of the Paths of men's lives." - Frank Hamilton Cushing "Zuni Fetishes"