Word origins

• HopiA member of a particular tribe of North American natives.
• pahoA sacred prayer stick in the Hopi religion.
• kivaA ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.
• kachinaA vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).
• ShalakoA Zuni ceremony, performed at the winter solstice.
• HakomiA form of body-centred somatic psychotherapy developed in the 1970s.
• HotevillaA Hopi village in Arizona, United States.
• HanoA Hopi-Tewa village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
• MoenkopiA census-designated place and Hopi community located in Coconino County, Arizona.
• BacaviA village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
• ChakpahuA village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
• HisatsinomThe ancestors of the Hopi people.
• KókyangwútiThe helper of Sótuknang and the creator of living beings.
• MàasawThe Hopi god of fire and death and the guardian spirit of the present Fourth World.
• MarawThe name of a Hopi women's society.
• MoquiHopi
• OraibiA Hopi village in Arizona, United States.
• PalatkwapiThe mythical place of origin of the Palatkwapi clans.
• pikiA paper-thin, dry, rolled bread made by the Hopi with nixtamalized blue corn meal.
• powaqaSynonym of two-heart (sorcerer).
• ShipauloviA village in Second Mesa, Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
• ShongopoviA village and census-designated place in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.
• SípàapuniA geological formation of the Little Colorado River Gorge, Arizona, United States, from where the Hopi people emerged into the Fourth World.
• SótuknangThe nephew of Taiowa and the creator of the nine universal kingdoms.
• Spider WomanSynonym of Kókyangwúti.
• TaiowaThe primordial Hopi god.
• Tewa VillageSynonym of Hano (village in Arizona)
• TokpelaThe primeval world of the Hopi cosmogony.
• TuuwanasaviThe geographical center of Earth.
• TúwaquachiThe present world.
• two-heartsorcerer, witch
• WùutaqaSynonym of Màasaw.
• WuwuchimA Hopi society
• YàyniwpuA geological formation near the Valley of Mexico, Mexico, from where some Hopi clans emerged into the Fourth World.