Hopi mythology
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The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditi
Hopi water jar with image of a Kachina, 1890
Tawa, the sun spirit and creator in Hopi mythology.
An Ancestral Puebloan petroglyph in Mesa Verde National Park. The boxy spiral shape near the center of the photo likely represents the "sipapu", the place where the Ancestral Puebloans emerged from the earth in their creation story.
Drawings of kachina dolls from an 1894 anthropology book.
Kokopelli
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Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player, who is venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopel
Kokopelli and Kokopelli Mana as depicted by the Hopi
Kokopelli petroglyph located on land near Embudo, New Mexico
Kokopelli pictograph "Cañon Pintado", ca. 850–1100 AD, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Petroglyph of Kokopelli in the "Rio Grande Style" of the ancestral Pueblo culture after the year 1300; taken at Mortendad Cave near Los Alamos, NM