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Kokopelli

Myth

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Legend ?

Casanova of the Ancient Ones

Kokopelli -

The Hunchbacked Flute Player

 

Of the multitude of miscellaneous drawings,

paintings

and scratching on the rocks

and in the caves of

the pre-Columbian people of the

Southwest,

only one anthropomorphic subject

can claim both an

identity and a proper name.

 

Kokopelli's

frequent and widespread appearance on pottery and in pictography suggests that he was a well traveled universally recognized deity.

A personality, an individual,

the personification of a legend,

a beneficent god to some

and a confounded nuisance to others.

 

Kokopelli,

the famous hunchbacked flute player,

the Kilroy of the Hohokam, thousands of years old.

The reason Kokopelli has a name is fairly simple.

The Hopi people of Central Arizona, aptly called "archaeology on the hoof",
make a variety of kachina dolls to sell to tourists.

Among the dolls is one they call Kokopelli, and his "wife" is called
Kokopelli-mana.

Koko is hunchbacked and play a flute.

It is among the present-day

Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona that the bulk of the

Kokopelli legends were still current

until fairly recent times.

At San Ildefonso,

he was known as a wandering minstrel

with a sack of songs on his back.

In the
Aladdin tradition,

he traded new songs for old

and was greeted as a harbinger

of fertility and a god of the harvest.

The real origin of Kokopelli,

like other relics of the

arcane Indian world,

may be futile to seek in 20th century

Anglo-Saxon terms
and modes of thought.

In any case, the notion of a footloose

and hunchbacked flute player with

the gift of fertility and
harvest must have satisfied some deep yearning of the ancient people

or they would not have nurtured the

legend all the way
down to the present day.

Kokopelli's Identity

A very popular figure found at Petroglyph sites throughout the southwest.

His frequent and widespread appearance suggests
he was well traveled and universally recognized deity of considerable potency.

Kokopelli's likeness varies as much as the
legends about him,

but by and large he is hunchbacked and nearly always playing a flute.

The Kokopelli figure has been found
in ruins of pithouse people

dating as early as 200 A.D.

The name Kokopelli may derive from

Zuni and Hope names for a god
(Koko) and a desert "Robber fly "

they call pelli.

That predatory insect has a

hump on his back

and a prominent proboscis.

Rich Variety of Legends

Popular legends include:

Hohokam - Deity of Fertility

Hopi - Carries a sack of deerskin

to barter for brides or a

burden of babies which he leaves with the young women.

Played flute to announce arrival in village.

San Ildefonso - Wandering minstrel with a sack of songs on his back.

Zuni - Rain Priest able to make it rain at will.

Navajo - God of harvest and plenty.

Hump was believed to be made of clouds filled with seeds or rainbows.

This is one theory about Kokopelli.

 

 

This is information about Hopi Legend

 [From an article by

Richard W. Kimball,

Daily Courier Prescott]
 Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995

 An old American Indian rock carving near Mishongnovi, Arizona
accurately describes the existence of "flying saucers" and space travel,
according to a Hopi Indian leader.

In the summer of 1970,

the late Chief Dan Katchongva,

in the company of
his counselor

Ralph Tawangyawma and interpreter Caroline Tawangyawma,
went to the city of Prescott

to learn more about the rash of UFOs
recently seen in that area.

The residents of that central Arizona community said they saw hundreds
of flying saucers in the night sky

over the city for more than two weeks
prior to the Hopi leader's arrival.

Katchongva, who died in 1972,

said he believed the sightings were
intimately connected to

Hopi prophecy.

The traditional Hopi chieftain
had long been interested in

UFOs because he believed they were a part of Hopi religious beliefs.

 

UFO researcher and former Prescott resident Paul Solem said the
existence of the saucers justified

an old Hopi prophecy that a

"Day of Purification"

was soon to arrive.

It would be a day when all wicked
people and wrong-doers would be punished or destroyed.

Contact with
flying saucers would signal

the first step of an massive migration
northward by

Indians from Central

and South America, Solem said.

 

Chief Katchongva told reporters of the Prescott Evening Courier that the petroglyph on the Hopi Reservation shows a definite connection between
the Indians and visitors from space.
"We believe other planets are inhabited and that our prayers are heard there," he said. "The arrow on which the dome-shaped object rests, stands for travel through space," Katchongva said in explaining the rock
carving.

"The Hopi maiden on the dome-shape (drawing) represents purity. Those
Hopi who survive Purification Day

will travel to other planets.

We, the faithful Hopi,

have seen the ships

and know they are true," he said.

"We have watched nearly all of our brethren lose faith in the original
Hopi teachings

and go off on their own course.

Near Oraibi the Plan of
Life was clearly shown

and we know that those who have forsaken the
original teachings will pay

with their lives when the

True White Brother
comes," he went on.

According to Katchongva, the Hopi prophecies say the

Hopi people will be
divided three times.

The first division occurred

in 1906 when Chief You-kew-ma [Yukiuma] and
his followers were forced out of the ancient Indian town of

Oraibi to begin a

new community in Hotevilla,

he said.

"The second division took place in

1969 when Paul Solem came

and contacted the flying saucers

and they flew over

and whispered their message.

Shortly before Mr. Solem came,

Titus Quomayumtewa saw a flying
saucer and the Kachina that piloted it. "Paul Sewaemanewa saw the saucer
years before when he had made his prayer rites," Katchongva said.

"These two men are of the faithful. We know we are to be divided once
more and few will be left just

before our True White Brother

arrives with the matching pieces

of stone tablet.

Many Hopi men wear their bang
haircut that represents a window

from which they continue to look for
the True White Brother," he added.
[Editor's Note: When Dan Katchongva "died" his body was never found.

He
was last seen walking up into a small valley where a UFO had just been
seen.]

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