Masauwu
Hopi · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Hopi god of death, fire, and the earth; keeper of the underworld and aboriginal owner of the present world who greeted the people on emergence.
Domains
- death underworld
- earth
- fire
Powers
- Keep and bestow fire upon the people
- Receive the dead and rule the underworld
- Hold the earth as its caretaker and proprietor
Epithets
- Maasaw The earth-god and keeper of fire and death; caretaker and guardian of the present Fourth WorldH. R. Voth, The Traditions of the Hopi (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Voth, The Traditions of the Hopi (1905) (primary); Waters, Book of the Hopi (1963) (primary)