of the entire Zuni population (Benedict, 72). The Zuni war, hunting, and clowning societies are grouped with the medicine societies. The war cult, like all parts of the Zuni council, is made up of men. They are responsible for protecting the people and act as a policing force in the village. The hunter and clowning cults have obvious differences but they too are grouped in with the medicine society (Benedict, 106).Religion is typical of most of the southwestern tribes. Basic beliefs are in animism, Force, Life, and Form. As every living thing they observe, every animal, has form, and acts or functions accordingly to its form; animals with feathers fly, creatures with fins swim. Form is at the highest in regards to adorning clothing, pots, shields, and ornaments. All Force is necessarily derived from life since the Zuni see force as motion. Winds that arise from the four cardinal directions they believe are caused unseen, but living entities breathing. Conversely, this breath is what they believe is life. Occurrences is nature are anthropormorphosized by association with animals. Serpents are considered beings that are closer to the sky gods because of their zigzagging movement resembles that of lightening. Man is closer in kin with the serpent than with the gods. Thus, observing common similarities all throughout nature, the Zuni strictly believe that man is related to all living things.SimilaritiesThough these two cultures are both geographically and historically differing, they do have a few similarities, or correlation’s between their cultures. The Hutterites are an agricultural society, and the Zuni maintained a horticultural lifestyle; at least until they were forced into sheep herding by the United States government. However, I will focus upon their similarities before this tragic cultural genocide.Both of these cultures have historically as well as contemporarily held a stoical view to their surroundings, holdin...
