Hopi Creation Myth By: Maria Valbona, Hailey Millar, Sam Markuse, and Jackie Brady

The Hopi Creation Myth: All men came from a hole in the earth, outside the hole a mockingbird gave each person a race and a language. The hopi along with other tribes worked together to make the sun and moon and put them in the sky. The light and warmth made life easier.

The tribes broke apart and moved eastward. When night fell the tribes settled wherever they were. The white people came from the same hole and since they were impatient they got to the east first.

Analysis: People coming from the hole depicts the belief that people came from some kind of void. Mockingbird at the entrance of the hole shows their deep connection to animals "Chiefs of all races and tribes got together" The Hopi included white people in this. Hopi did not have a kind view of white people although they believed they were "cut from the same cloth"

Quotations: "Their women rubbed flakes of their skin from their bodies and molded them into horses." "And so it went for all who came from the hole, including the White People" "They decided to go eastward to where the sun rises and that whoever go there first was to cause a shower of stars to fall from the sky, and then everyone would see this and stop where they were."

Art and Music connection White women "molded" the horses in the myth.

Discussion Question Why are white people in a Hopi CREATION myth if they had not yet traveled to the new world when the Hopi people came to be? What is your interpretation of what the Hopi's were trying to express when they said "Their women rubbed flakes of their skin from their bodies and molded them into horses?"