Dancing with Snakes: The Real Cause of Hopi's Snake Dance —— Part Two

The day before the last snake dance performance in the square, Orion and Sirius rose before sunrise. Two soldiers of the Snake Club circled around snakes and antelopes several times. Each of them had a bull growler (tovokìnpi) and a lightning frame, which respectively represented the lightning of monsoon storms, and lasted from July to August and early September.

These weather phenomena are also related to Hopi's knickknacks. Look at the first part, hopikax nas painted by local artists (1904).

There is a curved corner on the head of the heart of the god of the sky, and the surface and bottom of the corner are marked with rain clouds, which I can easily recognize.

He holds a stick stand symbolizing lightning in his left hand.

The picture frame has an eagle pattern at every angle, and the painter marked the pattern with black lines.

In his right hand, he holds a roaring letter or a bull roaring letter, a string, and lightning represents a red serrated belt.

Represents two striplines.

According to Dr. Bethe Hagens of Walden University, he studied the planetary grid system with William Becker: "... most bull whistle is related to Orion to some extent, which is located between Taurus (bull) and Sirius, and was widely called bull whistle in ancient times.

Mi Erzha, known as the Growler in kanis, announced the rise of Sirius in the East a few minutes later.

The bull growler looks like a flint knife that the Aztecs used to cut off their hearts.

The wooden lightning stand looks like a modern, hook-free, foldable hat stand, which was painted by local artist Huo Picaz Nas (1904).

Ciweike is wearing a red horsehair skirt and a Bandori skirt.

He roared with a whistle or bull in his right hand.

He has a fox skin tied around his neck.

From somewhere in the desert to the top of the platform, a competition was also held.

The winner gets a symbolic corn field water hyacinth.

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Burke was the assistant of General George Crook during the Battle of Apache, and learned the snake dance of Howie in August of 188 1.

He drew a parallel line on this track and took four Aztecs running on the top of Mexico 120 step pyramid.

The Aztecs claimed to have originated in the north.

Aren't their "shrines" or temples (that is, truncated pyramids) to commemorate the time when their ancestors lived on the cliffs on the stone steps? Three Hopi terraces, Guhopi village in volpi.

On the last day, the ceremony was held in the country square.

A small circular pavilion made of live cotton branches was erected to "round up" reptiles, of which about 100 were usually rattlesnakes.

This "shadow" is wrapped in buffalo hide or canvas and looks like a small leather. In front of the "shade", a board was placed on a shallow hole named "sépéapuni", which is a symbolic hole leading to the underground world.

This board is like a foot drum. Dancers imitate thunder and then step on it.

Different from the katsina dance held in the square in spring and early summer, this ceremony in late summer lacked colorful and varied masks.

The dancer's long hair is loose and there is a cluster of red feathers on her head.

The upper surface is painted charcoal black, the chin and neck are kaolin white, the chest, arms and calves are painted iron oxide red, and the turtle shell is tied to the back of the right knee against the calf.

A brown-red cotton skirt is painted with a black snake, and its outline is outlined with white lines, which meander horizontally.

The lower edge is sometimes decorated with small tin cones or antelope hooves.

There is a red belt hanging on the right hip, and a belt sewn with shells extends from the right shoulder to the left hip.

The dancers also wore shell necklaces, turquoise pendants and Navajo silver ornaments.

Dancers wearing buckskin soft shoes Hopi snake dance (1907) Wharton James.

(No copyright restrictions), antelope dancers don't take the initiative to participate in the snake dance itself, just observe, line up in the square, shake the rattle from the antelope scrotum, and shake the rattle from the turtle shell on the right calf.

They painted their forearms and calves gray-white, and white serrated lightning lines extended vertically from the chest to the arms and legs.

A line painted white also extends from the corners of the mouth to each ear, and the chin is painted black.

The day before, they danced with corn stalks and held beans and pumpkin vines in their mouths instead of snakes, thus emphasizing their agricultural role.

A participant in the antelope dance wears a headband made of poplar leaves on his head and holds a medicine bowl, Asperger's bacteria or a feather watering can in his hand. He used it to water the four world regions and himself.

The snake dancer Olabi 1898 near the foot drum in the front row, and the antelope dancer in the lower row, one with a Yang wreath, one with a medicine basin and one with a sprinkler. The background is Keesey. (Provided by the author) The snake dance team is divided into three parts: bearers, hugers and gatherers. Of course, the snake holder will control the snake, and the snake holder will follow closely.

The hugger's job is to constantly draw away the carrier snake with the eagle's feathers.

Once the carrier bypasses the square, the collector will pick up the snake.

After each aircraft carrier makes a circle, the diameter of the circle is about 20 feet (6.

09 meters) of corn flour is drawn into six rays, indicating four main directions plus zenith and lowest point.

Snakes are piled in the middle, and women pile corn flour on the woven patch.

These snakes were finally collected and taken to the four directions where they were found, with prayers for precipitation and agronomic rewards.

The snake dancers swallowed a mouthful of vomit at the end of the ceremony, making them vomit at the edge of the platform.

Then a grand banquet was held to celebrate the promising rain-making and harvest ceremony, dancers and "animal trainers", followed by "hugers", Oraibi, 1896.

The Snake Society thought these reptiles were relatives, but they were actually their brothers.

In the late19th century, ethnographer and archaeologist Jesse Walter Fox believed that the snake society (or fraternity) was related to the historical origin of the snake family.

These historical photos show the Hopi snake antelope ceremony held every August.

The Hopi legend tells the story of Tiyo, a cultural hero. He went to the Snake People Island in the Pacific Ocean in ancient times to hold a snake walking ceremony for his people, and the snake lady was the bride.

Therefore, the source of wisdom of Hopi snake is basically transoceanic. Above: left: the Hopi snake dancer (adobegallery) right: the Hopi male snake in the annual snake dance rain praying ceremony, 1946 (in public * * *), by Gary A.

David, the third mesa dialect of Hopi English Dictionary, edited by Kenh C.

Hill, Emory Seka Quatwa, Mary.

Blake and Eckhardt Malotki (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998), p. 650, p. 598, by Edward S.

Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge, editor, North American Indians: Hopi Books, vol. 12 (Norwood, Massachusetts: purington Press, 1922), p. 135, Malotki, Hopi Dictionary, op. cit. , page 654, page 645, Curtis and Hodge. Page 144- 145, Weston-Labare, They Will Pick up Snakes: Psychotherapy of Southern Snakes Cu lt (new york: Skoken Books, 1969, 1962), page 100. Parsons quoted Richard Maitland-Bradfield to explain Hopi culture (English Derby: Private Publishing, 1995), p. 323, ibid., pp. 287-288, Frank Watt Ayers and Oswald Frederick's White Bear, The Hopi Book (new york: Penguin Book,/kl

This "foreign language" is considered as Keresan language of Aa or Zia(Sia)pueblo.

Waters misspelled the western horizon instead of the eastern horizon, Malotki, Hopi Dictionary, O.C., p. 609.

Misha Titiev, Old Orebi: A Study of the Third Generation of Dihobbi Indians (Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1992, reprinted 1944), p. 15 1 page, Bert Hagen, ".

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The Snake Dance: A Narrative of the Journey from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Qi Mu Indian Village in Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984, 1884), p. 1 14.

In my previous book, I claimed that the primitive Aztecs were called Chichimecs ("dog people"). They first lived in the southwest of the United States, especially in the Chaco Valley, and later moved to the valley of Mexico, becoming one of the most powerful tribes. , page 142, page 504. Gary A. David, Orion Belt: An Ancient Star City in the Southwest of the United States (kempton, Illinois: Adventure Unlimited Press, 2006), pp. 15 1- 167, Jesse Walter Fix, Hopi Fix

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