A common misunderstanding about the popular figure Kokopelli. Navajo Historian Wally Brown, teaches about who Kokopelli was. Hint... not the "god of fertility" as some say. Enjoy.
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I am not Navajo or Dine, but I love listening to the gentle teachings and stories. Such a beautiful people with humble spirits. Every human would benefit from listening to and living by these teachings.
I used to live near the Navajo Indian Reservation. I loved watching their Pow Wow's. And teaching their children. They are a beautiful people - inside and out.
I listen to this wise elder and soak up his words like a sponge. He is a great teacher and I cherish his words and his culture. Future children will be listening to his words far after he has left this world and moved to the next.
damn man im having fun learning about gods and legends, but I'm so disappointed that a lot of native American legends are hard to find online. Alot of the time at most I can find is a name, but everything else is empty. Thank you for telling kokopellis story
The Kokopelli being is a common being in our area of the Four Corners, but he and his story have been acculturated by non-Indigenous people and therefore has become 'comical.' The old stories such as you share are so vital and worthy of discussion. We as modern Dine' don't know alot of such narrative, and so I am glad you are telling us, setting us straight. I am also part Hopi.
I see all around the internet saying he’s a fertility god, or a trickster god, or even symbols for music… I’m glad to know what he really is and that that pipe isn’t musical, but its a smoke pipe. Super cool
Thanks Wally. My neighbor today gave my some rock art with Kokopelli on it. It actually looks like four hunched over people playing flutes. He used to live in Arizona and it was carved by a one armed women using a sand blaster. Reddish sedimentary rock. I live in Minnesota and appreciate you spending your time to teach. Now I know the story. I'm a gardener and study all the medicine that grows around me. It's amazing one you open your eyes and learn. There is a lot here.
I have been told that Kokopelli was actually a depiction of the Poxteca, who were the Merchant class of the Mexica empire down south. They had extensive trade routes all across North and South "America" and they brought many exotic seeds and animals to trade. They would announce their arrival by playing the flute as they approached. This all seems to fit with what you said too. 👍thanks for the story
I am absolutely absorbed with mr. Wally Browns lessons and teachings from the people. I have learned so much and am attempting to apply this history and wisdom into my life. I feel a void in my self is being filled and it is the time for these things. I thank you with all that I am from my heart. You couldn't understand how much you have blessed me. DAVID HATFIELD
Thank you for explaining dear Elder. 💚💛 Ahehee. 😘 Going by different drawings and illustrations I saw of kokopelli with different stories, I used to think "kokopelli" was an Indigenous Man with a headdress on, or an African Man with dreadlocks who was a traveler and a botanist/ gardener. These are the stories I read about kokopelli - that kokopelli was a god of either good or mischief, and that he came from another land or country. People have the story really mixed up and changed a lot. I also thought that kokopelli was perhaps a person who traveled and lived in different places. I enjoy your knowledge! Please tell more! 💚
Is Kokopelli not playing a flute? I am Sak and Fox, but am also a guitarist. I love the dance and musical part of what I have heard. Is the flute actually a pipe? Also, can you spell the Dine word in English?
This was very inspiring and informational , i appreciate you sharing our history and storys.I like to think of the prospect of colonizing the moon or mars as a feat similar to Kokopelli. i appreciate your content, keep up the good work.
Were trapped by our feeling that animales and bugs feel and that mercilessness is opposite from the natures of our cell cores. So stigma takes us under a "sick" and "mad" umbrella. So, we dont find our best productos at the local stores at a cost we have onhand. And we dont and wont buy one of each thing sent.
I just got this Native American necklace with him depicted on it my wife gave me all kinds of slack about Him being a Fatility God It's nice to hear someone talk about it that has true knowledge on the subject. Thank you
ive definitely lived as an indegenous person in my past lives - also i dont understand of this, but this resonates with me as ancient knowledge i USED to have
i made sure my nephew had a clean diaper, food in his belly. water in his legs. didn’t make him brush his teeth tho.. baby teeth! they’ll fall out anyway
Kokopelli is the name of the figure. Natives hav the same story but different names. Navajos hav a story abt the humpback. Different scenario and story.
Mmm not gonna lie, Alot of what he's saying is sounding Hopi. The Petroglyphs he's referring to are Hopi/Anasazi. But he's tieing Dine into it. Im half Dine & Hopi. But kokopilli is a symbol of the Southwest Native Americans.
The Hopi have Kachinas for depicting their spiritual aspects and philosophies on life... That being said, why do they have a Kachina representing the Dine version of The Talking God? Does this mean the Hopi put the Dine in a higher cosmos like that? Just wondering. Thnx
Actually, I was thinking something very similar. What other "tribes" recognize Kokopelli and what do they have to say about who or what Kokopelli is (or was)?
In the global narrative of humankind there is many parallels that exist, one being the great flood. The kokopelli being is also very similar to the one called Pan in the old ancient Anglo Saxon tradition.
Thanks for that perspective. I'm neither but lived in the four corners for a good period of time and I was always drawn to the old pueblos. I think these teachings are valuable, but somewhat dogmatic, his perspective is Dine, but that's only one version of the greater truth. I've always understood kokopelli to be a pueblo symbol, and never knew it to be Dine so I was surprised at this talk. I once heard a Ute guide speak of kokopelli as a symbol of a merchant's guild.
I just listened to a native couple talk of kokopeli of being a fallen angel and he was ruthless in taking the native children and had fallen to the south west (Arizona) and sadly Arizona is huge hotspot for child trafficking.
Although little mentioned in today's churches, Jesus is called the Dancer, or Lord of the Dance (see Irish hymn by that name) -- and tradition teaches that the One who walked as Jesus is also the earth Creator and part of the Father. I believe we share truth. And Jesus, when parting from his followers after his resurrection, said I must go now because I have other sheep to care for. As for the Seeds .. scientists have found sacred words encoded in DNA.
Kokopeli brought wonderful things to the Dine after the Great Flood ruined the land and almost wiped out The People. This followed the Younger-Dryas events 12,800 years ago. He came from the South.
What becomes evident are the dark forces that plot against God's creation in another form. God once was man and learned to love life putting aside hate. But the bad wolves always cause division as we have today. The force is a purpose the force is a reason to find harmony during our second journey back to dine and eternal life. Respect all things give honor to the creator which has power to free you from evil wolves and bring you back to him fully cured of evil thoughts in order to enter the third world dimension or place of abiding with the holy ones.
THIS MORNING AS I WAS DRIVING TO WORK I SAW A #KOKOPELLI FORMED IN THE CLOUDS HOW I WISH I TOOK A PICTURE OF IT BUT I WAS DRIVING . I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT MY #CREATOR IS TRYING TO TELL ME OR SHOW ME BUT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL 😍🌵🪶
