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Rh This goddess is well known to the Pueblos along the Upper Rio Grande, who ascribe to her the same attributes as do the Navajoes and Apaches, but persist in speaking of her as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Soledad—a distortion of title which gives ground to the inference that the Spanish missionaries eased the labours of conversion by quietly adopting this goddess into their calendar of saints.

The diffusion of the worship of the earth-mother among the native tribes was more extended than is commonly supposed. Attention may be called to the remark of Tecumseh, in his conference with the American general, Harrison: "The earth is my mother, and upon her bosom will I repose."

The prayer to Guzanutli has been given at length supra on p. 428.

There is another goddess, almost equally powerful among the Apaches, of whom an account was given by an old man, Eshké-endesti (the Brave Man who hid away), a member of the Kiyajanni or Alkali clan. The name is