Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Hopi mythology


Related Topics

  
  Hopi mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hopi are a tribe of Native Americans located in the southwestern United States.
The Hopi also describe that a great spiritual Teacher, known as the 'Elder Brother' or 'True White Brother', is coming from the east (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).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hopi_mythology   (424 words)

  
 Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μυθος mythos, a story or legend, and λογος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity.
In modern usage, mythology is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mythology   (2663 words)

  
 Hopi - Crystalinks
Evidence suggest that the Hopi consist of the descendants of various groups that entered the country from the north, the east, and the south, and that a series of movements covered a period of probably three centuries, and perhaps considerably longer.
From various quarters, the Hopi have brought with them in their migration from other regions or have borrowed from other pueblo a mass of religious practices, and the result is a complex presenting many anomalies and obscurities.
The Hopi villages were established on their present almost inaccessible sites for purposes of defense; and with the same object in view the builders formerly never left a door in the outer walls of the first story, access to the rooms invariably being through hatchways in the roof.
www.crystalinks.com /hopi.html   (2602 words)

  
 Hopi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hopi are a Native American nation who primarily live on the 1.5 million acre (6,000 km²) Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.
Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its view of morality and ethics.
The Hopi have been affected by missionary work by several religions and also by consumerism and alcoholism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hopi   (349 words)

  
 Hopi Myths
Therefore it is only the Hopi that still have this world rotating properly, and it is the Hopi who must be purified if this world is to be saved.
Two tablets were kept by the Hopis themselves passed down from generation to generation and used to renew Holy vows of spiritual commitments to the people and the creator at special times of the year.
Hopi spiritual leaders of Hotevilla Arizona hosted The Hindu delegation led by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami in a special prayer meeting at the corn fields at Chief Dan Evehema's corn fields.
www.crystalinks.com /hopimyths.html   (1924 words)

  
 Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For the 1942 book Mythology, see the article on its author, Edith Hamilton.'' ---- Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system.
Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths" and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many Other ways.
mythology.iqnaut.net   (1060 words)

  
 Don't Worry, Be Hopi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The intermingling of Hopi mythology and understanding of the prophesies is a complex set of details.
Hopi culture and spirituality as a whole is multifaceted and there are even variations from clan to clan.
The Hopi elders are to be commended for not allowing this all important universal plan of world maintenance to fall into obscurity.
home.comcast.net /~larzofthenorth/hopi.html   (1206 words)

  
 CHAPTER XII. THE HOPI (OR MOQUI) (Continued).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The governing body of the Hopi is a council of hereditary clan elders and chiefs of religious fraternities.
The Hopi are skilled in weaving, dyeing and embroidering blankets, belts, and kilts.
The dark blue blanket of the Hopi women is an important article of commerce among the Pueblos, and their embroidered ceremonial blankets, sashes, and kilts made of cotton, have a ready sale among neighboring tribes.
southwest.library.arizona.edu /hav7/body.1_div.12.html   (2004 words)

  
 Hopi Country
The Hopi Tribal Council serves mainly as a liaison between villages and agencies of the federal and state governments.
Hopi leaders agreed, on the condition that the Tewa act as guardians of the access path to the mesa.
Not to be outdone by Navajo neighbors, the restaurant serves a Hopi taco (with beef) and a Hopi tostada (vegetarian).
www.arizonahandbook.com /hopi.htm   (3328 words)

  
 Facts about mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A mythology is a relatively cohesive set of myths: stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system.
Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
Some critics believe that the fact that the core characters and stories of modern story cycles are not in the public domain prevents the modern story cycles from sharing several essential aspects of mythologies.
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/mythology.html   (833 words)

  
 [No title]
Mythology, in the sense in which we have used the term, is the carrier and preserver of the most immaterial part of tribal culture." [Footnote 17: Wissler, Clark, Op.
The Hopi, like many primitive people, believe that when a bird sings he is weaving a magic spell, and so they have songs for special magic too; some for grinding, for weaving, for planting, others for hunting, and still others for war; all definitely to gain the favor of the gods in these particular occupations.
The belief of the present-day Hopi that the dead return through the sipapu to the underworld is based firmly upon an extension of this myth, as told to Voth,[22] for it furnishes a clear account of how the Hopi first became aware of this immortality.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/5/8/8/15888/15888.txt   (20483 words)

  
 MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Winter 2003: The Grand Canyon Part II: Sacred Space   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lilith may have a ready cognate in the "Spider Woman" of Hopi mythology, as she is also believed to have had a role in the creation of mankind.
The Hopi still visit underground kivas and leave offerings for the spirits as part of their rituals, though it is unlikely that these kivas are connected to the kind of elaborate underground tunnel systems that many have speculated exist throughout the Southwest.
In connection with this story, it is notable that among the Hopi Indians the tradition is told that their ancestors once lived in an underworld in the Grand Canyon till dissension arose between the good and the bad, the people of one heart and the people of two hearts.
www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2003/Winter/GrandCanyon   (13740 words)

  
 Mythology's Mythinglinks: Indigenous Peoples of North America -- Pueblo & Athabaskan Peoples of the American ...
When she was writing in 1996-7, there was no official Hopi website on the Hopi's own position, so Giese simply reported on what she had found in support of the Hopi without claiming to represent what the Hopi themeselves might think or feel about her perspective.
The Hopi Foundation explains that "the force field of electricity emanating from the powerlines is considered to be disruptive to the atmosphere, ambiance, and balance of the plaza and ceremonial areas, at the same time blocking the aesthetics of the sky and the panoramic vistas of the mesas"...
Hopi culture is regarded as one of the best-preserved native American cultures in North America.
www.mythinglinks.org /ip~northamerica~SW.html   (4335 words)

  
 The Anthills of Orion: Ancient Star Beings of the Hopi
The Hopi term for Orion is Hotòmqam, which literally means either “to string up” (as beads on a string) or “trey.” This could refer to the three stars of Orion’s belt but also to the tripartite form of the ant: head, thorax, and abdomen.
It is a sacred place of pilgrimage for the Hopi, at the bottom of the Canyon of the Little Colorado above its junction with the Colorado River.
The Hopi word Toko’anu (similar to the mountain’s name) literally means flesh ant, the large dark red ant with a painful sting.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_orionzone_6.htm   (1592 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi, by Hattie Greene Lockett.
According to their traditions the various Hopi clans arrived in Hopiland at different times and from different directions, but they were all a kindred people having the same tongue and the same fundamental traditions.
The Hopi woman's life is a busy one, the never finished grinding of corn by the use of the primitive metate and mano taking much time, and the universal woman's task of bearing and rearing children and providing meals and home comforts accounting for most of her day.
The present-day Hopi, including the most intelligent and best educated of them, will tell you, that all their important dances and ceremonials follow faithfully the old traditions, and are still believed to be efficacious and necessary to the welfare of the people.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15888/15888-h/15888-h.htm   (16549 words)

  
 "the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Hopi-Haudenosaunee "Sharing Prophetic Traditions"
The Hopi produced a piece of paper with a drawing depicting five men holding hands and said these were the people they were looking for.
The Hopi version is proposing that civilizations are not permanent and that a primary reason for their decline is the tendency of people to prefer a material prosperity of the present over responsibility to "ecological imperatives" and the future.
The Hopi philosophy of history, as presented here, counters the Western notion that changes occur over time in desirable and therefore progressive ways, and urges that nature reacts in unpredictable ways and that humans have a moral obligation to pay attention.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /Articles2000/NAJ000202sharing.htm   (2416 words)

  
 Joseph_Campbell_Mythology_Group
Myths never arise in a vacuum; they are the connective tissue of the social body which enjoys synergistic relations with dreams (private myths) and rituals (the enactment of myth).
Mystical watercolor paintings & dreamlike fiction rooted in mythology, archetypes & the divine feminine.
Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Northern Arizona State University.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Sparta/9277   (569 words)

  
 List of deities
See also definitions of the words God, Goddess, mythology, religion, scripture.
Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in the same God, but Muslims, and to some degree Jews (see below), visualize God in strictly monotheistic terms, whereas most Christians believe that God exists as a Trinity.
Susa-No-Wo - god of storms and thunder, snakes and farming.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Deity.html   (687 words)

  
 A Message from India - Hopi Vedic Parallels
This "Open Door" of Hopi mythology is the same as the
Hopi believe that they came to earth from one of the
The names of the Hopi people and their way of life is in
www.iamamerica.com /Pages/News/message_from_india.html   (1369 words)

  
 [No title]
Dorothy Eggan is best known for her pioneering anthropological work on the cross-cultural study of dreams and for her ethnography of the Hopi Indians of the American southwest.
Both he and Alice contributed substantially to Dorothy's understanding of Hopi lifeways, yet carefully avoided the role of "informant." Having been aware of the disapproval and social pressure brought to bear on some Hopi informants in other circumstances, Dorothy was careful to protect the anonymity and privacy of those who taught her about Hopi culture.
The paper given there, "Hopi Dreams in Cultural Perspective," would be her last major statement and the culmination of her mature thought.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /ead/rlg/deggan.xml   (2588 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Clowns of the Hopi: Tradition Keepers and Delight Makers: Books: Barton Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Their role, as "tradition keepers" is critical to the Hopi way of life.
Such insight is critical to one's understanding of the Hopi, their customs and their dances.
This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Hopi legend and history or for the collector of Hopi art.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873585720?v=glance   (712 words)

  
 Traditions of the Hopi: 1. Origin Myth
Her house was a kiva like the kivas of the Hopi of to-day.
Had these people not lived in that way, all the other Hopi would now live in peace, but others learned it from them, and that is the reason why there are so many contentions between the men and their wives.
3:1 Some Hopi say that these two people were the ancestors of what are now called the White Man, and the people say that they believe this language taught to these two people was the language of the present White Man.
www.sacred-texts.com /nam/hopi/toth/toth002.htm   (2113 words)

  
 LMCGuideMythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbols (Ref GR 35.J6 1961)
Mythology for Storytellers: Themes and Tales from Around the World (Ref BL 312.S54 2003)
Folklore and Mythology electronic texts - !http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html -(edited and/or translated by D. Ashliman of the Univ. of Pittsburgh) - one index lists tales by subject, title, author(s), and character names.
www.gc.maricopa.edu /lmc/LMCGuides/LMCGuideMythology.htm   (434 words)

  
 Indian Craft Shop - Kachinas
While kachinas play a role in many of the Pueblo societies, the Hopi are most noted and prolific today in kachina doll carving.
Each year in elaborate ceremonies, men of the Hopi villages dress and mask themselves for ritualized dances to represent and call on the different Kachinas.
Kachina dolls are carved from cottonwood root and have long been used to instruct Hopi children in the ways of the traditional religious cycles, and to help them learn to identify the hundreds of different beings.
www.indiancraftshop.com /kachinas.html   (252 words)

  
 Courlander (1982) Hopi voices: Recollections, traditions, and narratives of the Hopi Indians
Courlander (1982) Hopi voices: Recollections, traditions, and narratives of the Hopi Indians
Hopi voices: Recollections, traditions, and narratives of the Hopi Indians
To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=102211646&showStat=Ratings   (87 words)

  
 Hopi mythology books, find the lowest prices
You may browse this category by title or by publication date.
Hopi Voices : Recollections, Traditions, and Narratives of the Hopi Indians
The Kachina and the White Man : The Influences of White Culture on the Hopi Kachina Cult
www.allbookstores.com /Hopi_Mythology_st.html   (127 words)

  
 MYTHOLOGY
Greek Mythology Greek gods and an interpretation of what these myths meant.
Egyptian mythology From the Book of Gods, Godesses, Heroes and other Characters of Mythology.
The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".
www.greatdreams.com /myth.htm   (1682 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Guide to Hopi Katsina Carvings: Books: Rose Houk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Introduces the history of Hopi katsina carvings, an important part of Hopi culture.
These carvings are highly valued by collectors for their fine details and complex place in the Hopi worldview.
Fine, handmade Hopi and Zuni kachina dolls from the Sedonawolf Collection.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583690387?v=glance   (491 words)

  
 Record Display   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sustaining Hopi culture in the face of modernization.
A paper addressing the issue of maintaining Hopi culture as a strong, living tradition in a world of modernization.
Includes observations of the dilution of Hopi traditions and beliefs, and recommendations for strengthening the Hopi culture in youth.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~libei-p/scadb/recdisplay.cfm?control_num=12084   (65 words)

  
 Bookstore: Mythology: North American
Recollections, Traditions and Narratives of the Hopi Indians
The Influences of White Culture on the Hopi Kachina Cult ~
Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
www.witchs-brew.org /bookstore/northam.html   (746 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.