The Hopi Peoples of Arizona have a very interesting culture and legends. The Hopi claim they came from beneath the Earth and were once hel[ed by Ant people that live beneath the Earth. The Hopi call these Ant people or some researchers think Anu maybe related to Sumerian sky deity Anu. Anu means Ant in Hopi. Naki means friends in Hopi. Annunaki means “Ant-friends” in the hopi language.
The Hopi’s emergence into the present 4th World. Spider Grandmother called Koyangwuti caused a hollow reed to grow up into the sky, it emerged in the 4th World at the sipapu/Grand Canyon. The people then climbed up the reed into this world.
Koyangwuti was known for crafting people out of clay. Tawa’s nephew Sotuknang and Tawa (a creator of the universe) helped her craft the humans.
Source & Reference:
- Susan E. James, Some aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult, Journal of the Southwest (2000)
- Harold Courlander. The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in their Legends and Traditions, 201 University of New Mexico Press, 1987
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