Tawa

Hopi · deity · cosmogonic · deity

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

Relations

companion: Sotuknang

Sources

Voth, The Traditions of the Hopi (1905)
Waters, Book of the Hopi (1963)

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