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Blue Hopi Corn Offering for a Good Harvest. 1 oz (28g). Considered a staple corn of the Hopi people, this corn can be eaten as a sweet corn when young, or allowed to dry it can be used to make flour. The Hopi people (meaning ‘the peaceful ones’) live on the arid mesas in NE Arizona on more than 2500 square miles of tribal lands. Twelve villages are located on, or at the foot of three finger-like extensions known as Black Mesa. You may wish to offer some Blue Corn when doing a ceremony just to show your appreciation of the Great Mystery, Mother Earth and Father Sun. We are provided for in many ways and we have so little to give back. It is said that laying down some corn, with intention in your heart, can connect you to something special, and the appreciation is forthcoming. In the Native American tradition cornmeal is the mother energy and tobacco the father energy.
The Hopi are a deeply spiritual people whose beliefs permeate their entire lives. A harmony with nature is at the center of these beliefs and is reflected in the symbols used in their dances, rituals, art, and jewelry. Water may be symbolized as turtles, frogs, clouds, lightning, rain and waves; fertility and abundance may appear as corn, bean sprouts, and other crops; the spiritual world as katsinas, stories of creation (birth from the earth and migration through the maze of life), prayer feathers or folk figures. “Corn is the Mother of the Hopi,” they say. Without corn there is no food. In this land of little rainfall and capricious weather, the Hopi feel a pressing need for supernatural assistance to ensure that corn will grow. Long ago, this need was formalized into what we know today as the Katsina and Social Dance ceremonies and rituals of the Hopi and other Pueblo people.
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