The Rain Bird in
Native American legend was a bird who brought rain. The Rain Bird was known by coastal Native Americans as the bringer of life. The reason behind it was that Rain, or the bringer of life, brought life to the coastal Natives by watering their plants, thus giving food and water to the animals they hunted; it controls everything from the sky and is father of the sky children. The Rain Bird is one of the most common designs on
Pueblo pottery
Pueblo pottery are ceramic objects made by the indigenous Pueblo people and their antecedents, the Ancestral Puebloans and Mogollon cultures in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
For centuries, pottery has been central to pueb ...
made by, for example, the
Hopi and
Zuni.
Other uses
The name was
appropriated by the
Rain Bird Corporation to name their irrigation sprinkler.
See also
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Lightning bird
The lightning bird or impundulu or thekwane (or izulu, inyoni yezulu) is a creature in the folklore of the Zulu tribe.
The impundulu (which translates as "lightning bird") takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a person, which is ...
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List of legendary birds
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References
Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America
Legendary birds
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