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...RELIGION section assumes a threefold responsibility. The first is to follow the broad currents of religious thought, spot and report the important trends and ground swells in contemporary Protestantism, Catholocism and Judaism, review significant books and articles. There are also stories on the nonBiblical religions, from the Zuñi Indians of New Mexico (TIME, Jan. 11) to the great religions of the East. The second aim of the section is to present the personalities of religion on the basis that the news cannot be understood without knowing the people who make it. This includes both the leading figures...
Through the hour-and-a-half performance, the Zuñi emissaries did not miss a sound or a gesture. When it was over they sat down to powwow with Buck Burshears and the Koshare leaders. "This is too real, too true," they said. "What you do is not imitation. These are living gods, and we must take the Shalakos and the Mudheads to the home of the Masked Gods where they belong...
...Masks, and Leo Quetawke, Head Councilman in charge of Law and Order. They were dressed in windbreakers and dark trousers and their seamed, impassive faces were shaded by the black ten-gallon hats that the Indians of the southwest love to wear. At the railroad station they met another Zuñi and brought him along. He was Enos Coonsis, a 19-year-old soldier in the field artillery at nearby Camp Carson. Like most .Zuñis, Enos had gone to church while he was at school, but like most Zuñis he had little understanding of Christianity...
...Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos had their turn...
...week's end, seven Koshares departed for the Zuñi pueblo to return the Zuñi gods and to receive a welcome such as no white men have received before into the religious inner circle of the Zuñi tribes. The Zuñis have promised them several new chants and dances to replace the Mudheads and the Shalakos, which they will never dance again. Said Buck Burshears last week: "The whole thing has turned out wonderfully well...