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Topic: Kokopelli


In the News (Sun 19 May 13)

  
  The Kokopelli Zone
Kokopelli is distinguished by his dancing pose, a hunchback and flute.
Found painted and carved on rock walls and boulders throughout this region, Kokopelli is one of the most intriguing and widespread images to have survived from ancient Anasazi Indian mythology, and is a prominent figure in Hopi and Zuni legends.
Kokopelli is considered a symbol of fertility who brought well-being to the people, assuring success in hunting, planting and growing crops, and human conception.
www.jowsey.com /kokopelli/kokopelli.html   (243 words)

  
  Kokopelli
Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked[?] flute player (often with a huge phallus and antenna-like protrusions on his head), who is worshipped by many Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States.
The name "Kokopelli" may be a combination of "Koko", another Hopi and Zuni deity, and "pelli", the Hopi and Zuni word for the desert robber fly[?], an insect with a prominent proboscis[?] and a rounded back, which is also noted for its zealous sexual proclivities.
Kokopelli is one of the most easily recognized figures found in the petroglyphs[?] and pictographs of the Southwest.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ko/Kokopelli.html   (634 words)

  
 Kokopelli Kave
Kokopelli is the name from the ancient American Indian God of Abundance who is said to have roamed the hills of the southwest.
Kokopelli called out for everyone to gather up their clay pots so that the moisture could be collected for future use.
Kokopelli spoke to them of a time before the Creation when each person was a spark of Fire from Great Mystery's Eternal Flame and had fallen to Earth to seed the Mother with fertile thoughts, ideas, and actions.
kokopelli.melhaven.com /kokostory5.htm   (2047 words)

  
 Kokopelli Clocks
The Kokopelli Image is ideal for use with a clock because of the symbolism of time and the movement of time.
The elegantly simple Kokopelli desk or wall clock is a functional unit, which is about 4 X 4 inches square.
The Kokopelli desk or wall clock (woodburned image) is a functional unit, which is about 5X7 inches square.
kokopelli.southwestwoodcrafts.com /clocks.htm   (178 words)

  
 Kokopelli - Crystalinks
Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and antenna-like protrusions on his head), who is worshipped by many Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States.
Kokopelli also presides over the reproduction of game animals, and for this reason, he is often depicted with animal companions such as rams and deer.
Kokopelli bears a passing resemblance to Bradshaw Paintings of North-West Australia (examples), which could be mere coincidence or sign of a common origin; some have suggested that ancient astronaut theories in the model of Erich von Däniken have attributed both to a common celestial source.
www.crystalinks.com /kokopelli.html   (682 words)

  
 Kokopelli
Kokopelli, the hump-back flute player, is a symbol seen all over the southwest.
In Zuni culture, Kokopelli is known to be an important rain priest who brings in the rain.
In the Winnebago version of Kokopelli, he has a penis which he could detach and send down the river to "have his way" with the young maidens bathing in the stream.
www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/k/kokopelli.html   (161 words)

  
 Kokopelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by many Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States.
Kokopelli has been worshipped since at least the time of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.
Kokopelli and Company is a comic strip drawn by Larry Gonick, appearing monthly in the children's magazine Muse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kokopelli   (965 words)

  
 Kokopelli Books: The Mystical Anasazi Character
Fertility symbol, rain priest, roving minstrel and trader, hunting magician, and trickster, Kokopelli was painted and carved on rock walls and boulders from the time of the Anasazi (the Ancient Ones) to the 1700s.
Today, Kokopelli is still portrayed by Pueblo Indians in ceremonies, dances, songs, and stories; and he is also becoming popular in the art and literature on non-Indians.
Malotki believes that there is a connection between Kokopelli and two of the Hopi gods and uses Hopi text and folktales to share with the reader the many stories surrounding Kokopelli and to reveal what he sees.
www.cultureplanet.com /kokobook.htm   (990 words)

  
 Humpbacked Flute Player DesertUSA
Kokopelli may have been as important to the Southwestern Indians as Abraham is to Jews or Paul, to Christians.
Ubiquitous as the figure is, the origins of Kokopelli as a deity and the evolution of his role in Southwestern Indian life are difficult if not impossible to reconstruct.
Elegant Kokopelli images painted on ceramics ten centuries ago by the Hohokam, a southern Arizona Pueblo culture, have become the prototype for modern portrayals.
www.desertusa.com /mag00/apr/stories/trail_kok.html   (1564 words)

  
 Kokopelli
The Hopi say that Kokopelli is the antidote for Panayoikyase (an Ancient Being, or Power, which is full of destruction of the earth, of the people).
Kokopelli calls forth the energy necessary to defeat Panayoikyase with the magic of his flute, awakening that power within people’s hearts.
This aspect of Kokopelli lets us know without doubt that he is a fertility symbol as well as a celebration of the erotic part of our human nature.
www.shamanicvisions.com /music-folder/kokopelli.html   (594 words)

  
 Kokopelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kokopelli is a popular southwestern motif is available in any of our southwest pottery pieces.
Whatever your decorating needs, whether adding kokopelli southwest decorations or serviceable kokopelli lamps, all of our pottery may be ordered with the kokopelli.
The Kokopelli lamp shown is one of our lamp styles.
www.flatearthpottery.com /kokopelli.html   (236 words)

  
 Kokopelli The Legend
The feathers in Kokopelli's headdress were bright red Macaw feathers, which gave the illusion of his being bathed in the Eternal Flame of passion and creativity.
Kokopelli called out for everyone to gather up their clay pots so that the moisture could be collected for future use.
Kokopelli spoke to them of a time before the Creation when each person was a spark of Fire from Great Mystery's Eternal Flame and had fallen to Earth to seed the Mother with fertile thoughts, ideas, and actions.
www.totalaccess.net /~kokopele/legend.html   (818 words)

  
 Kokopelli Golf Club | What's New   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Marion, IL – Kokopelli, the mythical Hopi symbol of fertility, replenishment, music, dance, and mischief, is usually depicted playing a flute, and his distinctive silhouette is omnipresent in the Southwest.
The 176 acres on which Kokopelli is built was an old coal strip mine, making for an interesting mix of more open, linksy holes with several running alongside and down into the last remaining water-filled mine pit.
Just remember, though, that Kokopelli is not only a whimsical character known for his charitable deeds, he's also a mythical trickster.
www.kokopelligolf.com /news_trickster.html   (1391 words)

  
 Kokopelli Legends & Lore
Kokopelli, distinguished by his hunch-back, dancing pose, and flute, is the only anthropomorphic petroglyph to have a name, an identity, and an established gender.
Kokopelli¹s image varies as much as the legends about him, but he is generally depicted as a hunch-back flute player in a dancing pose with a festive crest on his head, and sometimes exhibiting male genitalia of exaggerated size.
The Winnebago believed Kokopelli was capable of detaching his penis (ouch) and sending it down the river to "have his way" with the innocent young maidens who were bathing in the stream.
www.indigenouspeople.net /kokopelli.htm   (1540 words)

  
 Who was Kokopelli?
Kokopelli embodies the true American Southwest, and dates back over 3,000 years ago, when the first petroglyphs were carved.
Kokopelli’s flute is said to be heard in the spring’s breeze, while bringing warmth.
Whatever the true meaning of Kokopelli is, he has been a source of music making and dancing, and spreading joy to those around him.
www.kokopelli.com /whowaskok.html   (257 words)

  
 Kokopelli
Soon, the melodic notes of a flute can be distinguished and the villagers cease finishing their tasks and hurry to greet the visitor who is blessing them with music and the ushering in of Spring.
From assisting travelers in their migrations to better hunting areas, to protecting and supplying the season's seeds and then bringing the rain to ensure a bountiful harvest, this sojourning being has been a hero-of-all-trades (so to speak).
Kokopelli has taken the form of a rabbit, an insect, sheep, and also has been a figure with a bird head.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ethnic_crafts/114395   (586 words)

  
 Kokopelli southwestern decor
This fluteplayer possesses all of the characteristics assigned to the character known as Kokopelli: humpback (probably a trader's pack), playing a flute from the end, exhibiting a phallus and wearing head ornamentation.
Rock art images of Kokopelli are most often found in Anasazi Culture areas beginning around AD 500, rarely found in Fremont and Mogollon Culture areas, and not found in Hohokam areas; although flute player images are found occasionally on Hohokam pottery beginning around AD 750.
It is ironic that the bent-over, dancing, headdressed flute player that is most often depicted as Kokopelli is based on Hohokam design and not that of the Anasazi, the culture that depicted him in greatest abundance.
www.sandcarveddesigns.com /kokopelli.htm   (825 words)

  
 Kokopelli Design, Commerical Interior Design Viriginia, Commericial Interior Design VA ,Commerical Interior Design ...
Kokopelli Design is an NCIDQ certified firm with twenty plus years of experience in the interior design field.
Kokopelli Design also provides consulting and technical support to architectural firms, facility managers and developers as requested.
Kokopelli Design strives to develop and maintain long term relationships with all of their clients, design vendors, contractors and professional peers.
www.kokopellidesign.ws /index.htm   (271 words)

  
 Kokopelli
Kokopelli is a prehistoric deity depicted hundreds of times in rock art, some of it over a thousand years old, located in numerous sites in southwestern United States deserts and mountains.
There is something appealing about Kokopelli which fascinates all kinds of people, even in our modern technological age.
Today, Kokopelli is one of the Hopi kachinas, and is in many traditional stories and songs of Native Americans of the desert southwest.
www.acaciart.com /stories/archive10.html   (376 words)

  
 The Legends of Kokopelli
Kokopelli, distinguished by his hunch-back, dancing pose, and flute, is the only anthropomorphic petroglyph to have a name, an identity, and an established gender.
It is thought that Kokopelli’s image was "cleaned up" over the years (his phallus depicted less often) due, in part, to the influence of Catholic priests who worked hard to Christianize the natives of the American Southwest.
Kokopelli is so irresistibly charismatic that he has been reinvented time and time again for thousands of years by storytellers, artists, and craftsmen.
www.drlamay.com /kokopelli.htm   (1221 words)

  
 Trickster - Kokopelli
It's felt that Kokopelli's image was "cleaned up" over the passing of years due mostly to the influence of the many Roman Catholic priests that invaded the American Southwest to Christianize the "heathen" natives.
Kokopelli's hump is said to be full of seeds.
These are the seeds that he scatters on his journeys, and symbolizes the semen of the male principle to be laid to rest in the earth.
www.thezodiac.com /koko.htm   (327 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Kokopelli: Music: Kosheen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kokopelli is a curious choice as the follow-up to Kosheen's debut album (Resist).
Kokopelli is an exploration and experimentation of new sounds and its rather short-sighted and wrong to somehow brand them as a specific 'genre'.
Their third album is due this year and it has been said that it will be a fusion between their dance music routes and their darker material seen on this album.
www.amazon.co.uk /Kokopelli-Kosheen/dp/B00009NJ71   (874 words)

  
 The Kokopelli Yacht Club
Oak Island is about one (1) square mile in area, with about 45 houses located on the east and south sides and a bird sanctuary (egrets, ibises, green herons, seagulls, great blue herons, arctic terns, ospreys, barn swallows, geese, swans, skimmer gulls, etc.) covering the remainder of the horse-shoe shaped island.
“Kokopelli”, distinguished by his hunch-back, dancing pose, and flute, was a playful, carefree fertility god, prankster, healer and story teller in native american lore who traveled the southwest and was said to be responsible for bringing the changing of winter to spring, assuring success in hunting and growing crops, and for human conception.
Guests of the Kokopelli Yacht Club arriving by car, must park in a parking lot just off the Ocean Parkway (about one mile west of Captree Park and about 15 miles East of Jones Beach State Park) where they will be met (by appointment only - 631-665-1867) and ferried to the island.
www.kokopelliyc.com /index.html   (353 words)

  
 Kokopelli Music - Lifetime Guaranteed Help For Your iPod!
If your Kokopelli battery or LCD screen ever wears out, anytime, for any reason, return it to us and we'll replace it for a nominal fee!
We can show you 200 reasons to trust Kokopelli Music.
Their service was unparalleled when it came to promptly answering my questions, quick international delivery, easy to follow replacement instructions, and a substantially cheaper price from what the competition was asking.
www.kokopellimusic.us   (2388 words)

  
 Kokopelli : Our History
ssociation Kokopelli was created in France in March 1999 by a group of people who have been involved since 1987 in the protection of biodiversity, medicinal plants and the production of organic seeds.
They created and ran from 1991 to 1998 the Botanical Garden of La Mhotte and Terre de Semences in Auvergne, France: hundreds of heirloom varieties were grown for seeds on a 30 acre-land with the help of 45 people going through a process of social rehabilitation.
ssociation Kokopelli is a non-profit organization based in France with small independent branches in Italy, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany and Brazil.
www.kokopelli-seed-foundation.com /history-kokopelli.html   (413 words)

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