Tawa
Hopi · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Hopi sun spirit and creator; in the Waters cosmogony he is Taiowa, first principle who creates Sotuknang as his nephew.
Domains
- sun
- creation
Powers
- Create the First World Tokpela from endless space
- Create the first creatures and life of the world
- Appoint Sotuknang to order the universes
Epithets
- Taawa The Sun Spirit and creator, who made the first beings and the worldsH. R. Voth, The Traditions of the Hopi (secondary)
Relations
- companion: SotuknangReciprocal of hopi_sotuknang.companion — First finite being, made by Taiowa and called his nephew; agent who lays out the nine universes and destroys the successive worlds.Frank Waters, Book of the Hopi (1963) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Voth, The Traditions of the Hopi (1905) (primary); Waters, Book of the Hopi (1963) (primary)