ABSTRACT
Pueblo myths and stories, specifically, give a clear description of the nature of the cosmos as well as the structuring of the house, kiva, and community forms. The myths demonstrate how structure at the physical level is integral with structure at the metaphysical level. The metaphysical assumptions underlying the Pueblo myths, stories, songs, and prayers define a cosmos that can be described as a contained spherical unit. The sun, in a Hopi myth, descends and emerges into the west and east houses where two women live. The kiva is also the replication of the emergence place. It is the circular and subterranean cave from which issue the sustaining forces of life. Thus, the Pueblo myths, stories, songs, and prayers describe a world in which a house or structure is not an object-or a machine to live in-but is part of a cosmological world view that recognizes multiplicity, simultaneity, inclusiveness, and interconnectedness.
