Hopi mythology
The
Hopi are a tribe of
Native Americans located in the southwestern
United States.
Kokopelli is a god worshipped by many southwestern tribes. He is a humpbacked
flutist. Among the Hopi, he brought the fetuses to pregnant women, and took part in many rituals relating to marriage.
Muyingwa is the god of
germination.
Taiowa is the creator god. He made
Sotuknang, the first person and ordered him to make the universe. The first world was called
Tokpela and had land, water and air, as well as
Koyangwuti, who then created twins,
Poqanghoya and
Palongawhoya. They made rivers, oceans and mountains. Koyangwuti then made all organisms, but most of the men did not obey the gods, so Sotuknang killed them with a flood. Two more bad worlds were created and destroyed. The fourth world, the modern world, is
Tuwaqachi.
Tokpela was the endless, primordial space before creation.
Kachinas are masked dolls, symbolizing the spirits of deceased persons. Good people go west and become kachinas, but there is no absolute connection between the former soul and the kachina (i.e. each doll does not represent a particular deceased person). See
kachina for more information on the different kinds of kachinas.
The
Hopi also describe that a great spiritual Teacher, known as the 'Elder Brother' or 'True White Brother', is coming as the "Rising Sun" to reunite the world's two streams separated in a
far past (to rejoin the "stone tablets"). The Hopi have a complex and comprehensive view of the history and evolution of mankind, derived from oral tradition, and tend also to see history and evolution as cyclical (although this process is also conceived as a spiral process into higher stages of unfoldment). The
True White Brother is expected to come after the two great wars, in order to inaugurate the future age: the "Day of Purification". The symbology described to be related to this event is as following:
"this third event will depend upon the Red Symbol, which will take command, setting the four forces of nature (Meha) in motion for the benefit of the Sun."
[Dan Katchongva, Sun Clan (ca. 1865-1972), From the Beginning of Life to the Day of Purification] (cf.
Revelation 7:1)
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Age of Aquarius
