He would stop at every village and teach people how to plant corn. His shadow against the desert looked like a deformity. ![]() It has been suggested that the Kokopelli figure may have recalled a revered agent who introduced corn to the Southwest, carrying the grain in a backpack, heralding his presence with his flute:Ī man traveled through this country with a bag of corn seed over one shoulder. ![]() He was “portrayed as a priest, an embodiment of the contact point between the spiritual and material worlds,” Stephen W. The instrument became the signature of Kokopellithe ancient and fabled flutist whose likeness appears (sometimes with an apparent humped back, sometimes with a normal back) on stone and ceramic surfaces and in murals across the Southwest. ![]() For centuries and perhaps millennia, the flute, with its hauntingly wistful melodies, has laid at the core of the folklore, romance, rituals, artisanship and musical expression of Native Americans of the desert Southwest.
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