Hopi

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Kachina dolls, sketch from a 19th century anthropology book.

The Hopi are a Native American people who live in what is nowadays Arizona. For some reason, aspects of their mythology and culture have been hijacked by woo-pushers.

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[edit] Kachina

In Hopi mythology, Kachina are supernatural beings representing various natural forces and/or ancestral spirits. The term is also used for the traditional dolls and the ritual dancers depicting them. Advocates of the ancient astronauts theory hypothesis meme have tried to use them as supporting evidence for alien visitation in the past, citing the "Kachina-as-teachers" myths and drawing a parallel between the Kachina masks and astronauts' helmets.

[edit] Prophecies

Several "prophecies" (or variants of a single one) attributed to the Hopi have been used to support various apocalyptic claims, such as the 2012 apocalypse.

[edit] Language

In the 1950s, Benjamin Lee Whorf (the Whorf in the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis") claimed that the Hopi language lacked the concept of time (had “no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions that refer directly to what we call “time.”) He's wrong.[1]

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. http://www.native-languages.org/iaq7.htm
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