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There is a bumper sticker that reads: If you can read this, you are too close. This book could come with a similar label that informs that if you are alive in the early 21st century and can read this, you are very fortunate. Because of the fidelity with which information has been transmitted through ancient story tellers, through the work of Frank Hamilton Cushing, and through the willingness of this publisher (Kessinger) to reprint old books like this one, you are able to "hear" the voices of ancient peoples.

A couple nice compliments to this book are The Zuni Enigma by Nancy Yaw Davis, and the Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters.

Then....if you are up for more:

Before Columbus by Cyrus H. Gordon

Cataclysm! by Allen and Delair (Builds a Gestault...)

Cosmic Winter and Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier (A foundation of hard science.)

Rain of Iron and Ice by John S. Lewis (More foundation.)

Geological Society of America Special Publication 356, also titled Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions (Details of the K/T extinction event plus a very significant introductory chapter by Ulrich Kohler.)

Exodus to Arthur by Mike Baillie (At last! A firm chronological framework for ancient disasters. Hurray!)

Ragnarok and Atlantis by Ignatius Donnelly (Sorry to risk scorn for mentioning the "A" word, but, it is (these are) a terrific book(s).)

Path of the Pole by Charles Hapgood (There is a relationship between layer of tektites in deep sea sediment cores and magnetic reversals. Could giant impacts induce sudden glaciations?)

Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes by Firestone, West and Warwick-Smith (K/T times and dead dinos are too remote to matter to most people. But our Clovis brothers got wacked along with a lot of Pleistocene mega-fauna and this begins to get very personal...)

There are enough fertile unions of thought among the aforementioned books that reading them all could instill in you the desire to see NASA's budget increased to about 1% of the US Federal Budget... permanently.

OK. So what the heck has all this blather to do with Zuni Creation mythology? See page 157 of Cataclysm!