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Skin-walker stories told among Navajo children may be complete life and death struggles that end in either skin-walker or Navajo killing the other, or partial encounter stories that end in a stalemate. [2] Encounter stories may be composed as Navajo victory stories, with the skin-walkers approaching a hogan and being scared away. [7] [8]
ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
Totem maker [ edit ] After graduating from the National Art School , Bass developed his philosophy of working as a sculptor as being the maker of totemic forms and emblems, that is, work expressing ideas of particular significance to communities or to society at large.
A carved representation of a tupilak, Greenland. A tupilaq (tupilak or ᑐᐱᓚᒃ in Inuktitut syllabics, plural tupilait [1]) [2] [3] is a monster or carving of a monster.. In Inuit religion, especially in Greenland, a tupilaq was an avenging monster fabricated by an angakkuq (a practitioner of witchcraft or shamanism) by using various objects such as animal parts (bone, skin, hair, sinew ...
Annotated image of Xipe Totec sculpture. In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (/ ˈ ʃ iː p ə ˈ t oʊ t ɛ k /; Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc [ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)]) or Xipetotec [3] ("Our Lord the Flayed One") [4] was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the seasons, [5] and the earth. [6]
Scientists found a multicolored animal with spiky skin perched on plants in Ecuador and discovered a new species, a study said. ... In the clear water of Totem Pole Cave (not pictured), “giant ...
A totem (from Ojibwe: ᑑᑌᒼ or ᑑᑌᒻ doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.
Katsina tihu (Kokopol), probably late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum Hopi katsina figures (Hopi language: tithu or katsintithu), also known as kachina dolls, are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act as ...