Just who or what is a Kokopelli you might ask? The image of Kokopelli dates back over 3000 years, where illustrations of the hunchbacked flute player were found carved into the walls of caves throughout the Southwestern United States. These primitive art forms are called petroglyphs.
Kokopelli is recognized by many different tribes and his legend varies greatly throughout them. Many know him as a god of fertility, who would come into the villages playing his flute, causing everyone to sing and dance all through the night, then by morning all of the young maidens would be with child. This earned Kokopelli the nickname “Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers”
Others saw him as a traveler who would roam from village to village with a sack full of songs and stories that he would collect and trade wherever he went.
One of our favorite Kokopelli legends is that he is the bringer of spring. His sweet flute music would warm the Earth and melt away all of the snow. Many tribes believed that the large sack on Kokopelli’s back contained the seeds of every plant in the world, which he would sew at the end of the long winter season.
No matter what the belief, Kokopelli was always welcomed as a symbol of fertility, prosperity, luck and joy.
Kokopelli
Just who or what is a Kokopelli you might ask? The image of Kokopelli
dates back over 3000 years, where illustrations of the hunchbacked flute player were found carved into the walls of caves throughout the Southwestern United States. These primitive art forms are called petroglyphs.
Kokopelli is recognized by many different tribes and his legend varies greatly throughout them. Many know him as a god of fertility, who would come into the villages playing his flute, causing everyone to sing and dance all through the night, then by morning all of the young maidens would be with child. This earned Kokopelli the nickname “Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers”
Others saw him as a traveler who would roam from village to village with a sack full of songs and stories that he would collect and trade wherever he went.
One of our favorite Kokopelli legends is that he is the bringer of spring. His sweet flute music would warm the Earth and melt away all of the snow. Many tribes believed that the large sack on Kokopelli’s back contained the seeds of every plant in the world, which he would sew at the end of the long winter season.
No matter what the belief, Kokopelli was always welcomed as a symbol of fertility, prosperity, luck and joy.