Hopi mythology The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is ...

, Ahöl Mana is a Kachina Mana, a maiden spirit, also called a

kachina A kachina (; also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: ''katsina'' , plural ''katsinim'' ) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples, Native American cultures located in the south-western part of the United States. In th ...

. She is represented as a standard Kachin Mana; it is because she arrives with

Ahöla Ahöla, also known as Ahul, is a spirit being, a kachina, embodied by a man, in Hopi religion. Ahöla is one of the important chief katsinam for First and Second Mesas because he opens the mid-winter Powamu ceremony, sometimes called the bean p ...

that she is called Ahöl Mana. During the Powamu ceremony, she goes with Ahöla as he visits various kivas and ceremonial houses. On these visits Ahöl Mana carries a tray with various kinds of seeds.

Sources

* "Kachinas : A Hopi Artist's Documentary." Barton Wright. Seventh Edition. Northland Publishing Company with the

Heard Museum The Heard Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art. It presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitio ...

. Flagstaff, AZ: 1974. Deities and spirits Hopi mythology {{NorthAm-myth-stub