The Story of Juan Cruz (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Story of Juan Cruz Montezuma was born in Pecos pueblo. He rode southward on the back of an eagle, followed by the people. Wherever he alighted for the night, a pueblo was built. At the last stop, the eagle alighted on a cactus bush and was devoured by a snake. On this spot the City of Mexico was built. In these pueblos or villages, for many centuries, something like six thousand Indians have lived. They are a happy, trustful, poetic, religious people, full of human sympathy, full of mysticism. They wove cotton cloth before America was discovered. They built Christian churches of their own before the Mayflower arrived. They constructed mills and ground their corn. Their houses are now and always have been equal or superior in cleanliness, in their substantial character, to those of their American or Mexican neighbors. These villagers, with their herds and fields, lived in communion with spiritual things. In the Moon of the Shearing, they harvested their wool. In the Planting Time of the Corn, the seeds were covered, with ceremony and prayer. The Reader of the Stars of Puye interpreted the Heavens. When the Sun went on the South Trail, the priest of the Winter Clan got out his ceremonial bowl and repaired to the Kiva, there to commune with the Ruler of Magic. They wooed the Maid of the Corn Silk Hair. They lived, married, and gave in marriage until there approached the Shadows at the End of the Trail, always with faith in the Great Mystery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.