While all the prey gods of the hunt are supposed to have functions
differing both from those of the six regions and those of the Priesthood
of the Bow, spoken of further on, they are yet referred, like those of
the first class, to special divisions of the world. In explanation of
this, however, quite another myth is given. This myth, like the first,
is derived from the epic before referred to, and occurs in the latter
third of the long recital, where it pictures the tribes of the Zunis,
under the guidance of the Two Children, and the Ka[']-ka at
Ko-thlu-el-lon-ne, now a marsh-bordered lagune situated on the eastern
shore of the Colorado Chiquito, about fifteen miles north and west from
the pueblo of San Juan, Arizona, and nearly opposite the mouth of the
Rio Concho. This lagune is probably formed in the basin or crater of
some extinct geyser or volcanic spring, as the two high and wonderfully
similar mountains on either side are identical in formation with those
in which occur the cave-craters farther south on the same river. It has,
however, been largely filled in by the _debris_ brought down by the Zuni
River, which here joins the Colorado Chiquito. Ko-thlu-el-lon signifies
the "standing place (city) of the Ka[']-ka" (from _Ka_=a contraction of
Ka[']-ka, the sacred dance, and _thlu-el-lon_=standing place).