The Zuni People Emerge into Daylight
In Ruth Benedict's version of the Zuni emergence, people dwelt in total darkness deep in the fourth world. Awonawilona, the Sun, took pity on them. His two sons, the bow priests, located the opening to the fourth world in the southwest and led the people upward. They planted seeds that grew into pine, spruce, silver spruce, and aspen. Each tree became a prayer stick stretched to the next world. The people climbed through four worlds, each time finding themselves still incomplete. They had no mouths, anuses, or fingers; their hands and feet were webbed, and they had horns and tails. In the firs