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The Alósaka cult of the Hopi Indians

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An ethnographic study documents a Hopi cult centered on horned wooden figures called Alósaka, describing their discovery, form, and the priesthood (Aaltû or Horn-men) that personates them. Field observations and legends are used to detail ritual dress and the symbolic horns, the role of Alósaka as escorts who mark and guard trails with meal, and their parts in Flute, New-fire, and Winter Solstice ceremonies. The account traces southern-clan contributions to certain rites, examines linked shrines and effigies such as Talatumsi and Tuwapontumsi, and interprets germinative, ancestor-veneration, and animal-associated symbolism in the cult.

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Title: The Alósaka cult of the Hopi Indians

Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes

Release date: March 22, 2023 [eBook #70346]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899

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THE ALÓSAKA CULT OF THE HOPI
INDIANS

By
J. WALTER FEWKES
(From the American Anthropologist (N. S.), Vol. 1, July, 1899)

NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
1899