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Hunchbacked Rain Priest, Hunting Magician, and Don Juan of the Old Southwest

Klaus F. Wellmann, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(10):1678-1682.

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The hot and arid southwestern portion of the United States harbors an imposing array of prehistoric Indian rock paintings and carvings some of which date back thousands of years.² The intentional or incidental confrontation with these charming witnesses of bygone cultures evokes one of the most delightful experiences for anyone who travels through this region with a receptive mind.

Perhaps the most intriguing of all the petroglyphs and pictographs of the Southwest is a distinguished little anthropomorphic figure known among a small circle of cognoscenti under the euphonious name of "Kokopelli" (a word said to stem from the Zuñi and Hopi dialects³; other spellings include Kokopeli, Kokopele, Kokopölö and Kokopeltiyo). Kokopelli (Fig 1 through 5) appears on countless rocks^4-7 (Fig 1 and 3), in rock shelters,⁸ ceremonial caves³ (Fig 4) and kivas, and on the walls of some Pueblo ruins and can be found in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Isaac Albert Research Institute of the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.

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