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Kokopelli is a fertility deity who is worshiped by many indigenous 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 merchant, insect, musician, magician warrior and hunting.
similarity Kokopelli varies almost as much as its legends. It usually appears as a humpbacked flute player often with a huge phallus and outgoing, like antennae on his head. The first images of it are identified in Hohokam pottery dated to sometime between 750 AD and 850 AD
According to Hopi legend, Kokopelli carries unborn children back and distributes them to women. It frequently takes 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 thought to be a wandering minstrel with a bag of songs in his back which markets the old songs with new ones. An agreement with the Navajo legend, Kokopelli is a god of harvest and abundance. It is believed that the bag was full of rainbow clouds or seeds.
Kokopelli may have been originally a representation of ancient Aztec traders, known as pochtecas, who traveled to the southwest of Northern Mesoamerica. These traders brought their products in bags hung sack on their backs and this may have evolved into Kokopelli's familiar hump. These traders also used their flutes are announced at the most affordable who came to an agreement. This origin is still in doubt, however, from the earliest known images of Kokopelli was important prior to the Aztec-Anasazi trade for several hundred years.
Another theory is that Kokopelli actually an anthropomorphic insect. Many of the earliest depictions of Kokopelli do very similar insects, apparently. 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. An etymology recent is that Kokopelli means literally "kachina hump". Because the Hopi were the tribe from which the Spanish explorers first learned of God, his name is the most commonly used.
A similar humpbacked figure is found in the artifacts of the culture of the U.S. southeast Mississippi. From about 1200 to 1400 AD, water vessels were crafted in the shape 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. Your images can be found in anything such as shirts, caps, key chains and much more. A bicycle trail between Grand Junction, Colorado and Moab, Utah, is now known as Kokopelli Road.
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