Throughout Ceremony, Tayo continuously had flashbacks to when Uncle Josiah was alive. These flashbacks generally conveyed some type of story that taught Tayo a lesson. Josiah’s particular lesson that pertained to Tayo’s current situation with the cattle was that “beating the mare would not make the spotted cattle appear” (180). This lesson related to Tayo’s experiences with the war. For example, because of the war, Emo developed an extremely violent and hateful attitude toward the Japanese; however, in his case, hating the Japanese would not make the white men hate the Natives any less or vice versa. For Emo, the horse symbolized the Japanese, and what Emo was unconsciously searching for was peace with the white man. Hating the Japanese would