Mana Kachina
Mana Kachina
Kokopelli, a Pied Hunchback
Kokopelli is a fertility deity who is worshiped by many tribes of Native Americans in the Southwest. And like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. It is also considered a trickster god, traveling trader, insect, musician, magician, warrior and hunting.
Kokopelli likeness varies almost as much as its legends. It is usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player often with a huge phallus and antenna like protrusions on his head. The earliest known images of him appear on Hohokam pottery dated to sometime between 750 AD and 850 AD
According to the myth Hopi, Kokopelli carries unborn children in the back and distributes them to women. Often part in rituals relating to marriage, and Kokopelli himself is sometimes depicted with a consort, a woman called Kokopelli-mana by the Hohokam and Hopi. At San Ildefonso, a village of Pueblo, Kokopelli is believed to be a wandering minstrel with a sack of songs on his back, trading songs old for new. An agreement with the Navajo legend, Kokopelli is a god of harvest and plenty. It is believed that the bag was filled with clouds or rainbow seeds.
Kokopelli may have originally been a representation of ancient Aztec traders, known as pochtecas, who traveled to the southwest of northern Mesoamerica. These traders brought their products in bags slung across their backs and this bag may have evolved in the family of Kokopelli's hump. These traders also used to advertise their flutes are so friendly as they approached a settlement. This origin is still in doubt, however, from the earliest known images of Kokopelli was important prior to the trade Anasazi of the Aztecs by several hundred years.
Another theory is that Kokopelli is actually an anthropomorphic insect. Many of the earliest depictions of Kokopelli make it very insect-like in appearance. The name "Kokopelli" may be a combination of "Koko", another Hopi and Zuni deity, and "Pelli" Hopi and Zuni word for the desert robber fly, an insect with a prominent proboscis and a rounded back, which is also known for its zealous sexual proclivities. A more recent etymology is that Kokopelli literally means "hump Kachina. Because the Hopi were the tribe from which the Spanish explorers learned the god, his name is most commonly used.
A similar humpbacked figure is found in the artifacts of the culture of southeastern Mississippi U.S.. About Ship from 1200 to 1400 AD, water were prepared in the form of a crippled woman. These forms may represent a cultural heroine or founding ancestor, and may also reflect concepts related to the life giving blessings of water and fertility.
Kokopelli is one of the most recognizable images today. Their images are can be found in anything, like shirts, caps, key chains and much more. A bicycle trail between Grand Junction, Colorado and Moab, Utah, is now known as the Kokopelli Trail.
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