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This religious explanation is supported by modern Pueblo beliefs about a North Road leading to their place of origin and along which the spirits of the dead travel.

According to modern pueblo people, this road represents the connection to the shipapu, the place of emergence of the ancestors or a dimensional doorway.

During their journey from the shipapu to the world of the living, the spirits stop along the road and eat the food left for them by the living.