On pages 23-24, we find the following interesting story from Edgar L. Hewett‘s book “HANDBOOKS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY“: The Tewa “Tewa legendary tells us that the human race and the animals were born in the underworld. They climbed up a great Douglas “fir” tree and entered this world THROUGH a lake called Sip’ophe. When people die, their spirits go to Sip’ophe, “lake of the dead“, through which they pass into the underworld. There are many spirits in the waters […] Read More