Question

select the correct text in the passage. consider this sentence from the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday: which two of the highlighted phrases in the passage help the reader to understand the meaning of the word deicide? the word deity means \god.\ the suffix -cide comes from the latin -cida, which means \kill.\ the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday (excerpt) my grandmother had a reverence for the sun, a holy regard that now is all but gone out of mankind. there was a wariness in her, and an ancient awe. she was a christian in her later years, but she had come a long way about, and she never forgot her birthright. as a child she had been to the sun dances, she had taken part in those annual rites, and by them she had learned the restoration of her people in the presence of tai - me. she was about seven when the last kiowa sun dance was held in 1887 on the washita river above rainy mountain creek. the buffalo were gone. in order to consummate the ancient sacrifice - to impale the head of a buffalo bull upon the medicine tree - a delegation of old men journeyed into texas, there to beg and barter for an animal from the goodnight herd. she was ten when the kiowas came together for the last time as a living sun dance culture. they could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree. before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from fort sill under orders to disperse the tribe. forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground, the kiowas backed away forever from the medicine tree. that was july 20, 1890, at the great bend of the washita. my grandmother was there. without bitterness, and for as long as she lived, she bore a vision of deicide.

Explanation:

The word "deicide" is composed of "deity" (god) and the suffix "-cide" (kill). In the context of the passage, the Kiowa people's religious and cultural practices were disrupted and their connection to the sacred was "killed" in a sense. The phrases "forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith" and "having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground" imply the destruction or "killing" of their spiritual - related aspects, which help understand the meaning of "deicide".

Answer:

Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground