Universe: Zuni Indian

Universe: Zuni Indian

Published: February 14, 2008, 12:00 am
Updated: April 21, 2009, 10:50 pm
Lead Author: Sten Odenwald
Topics: Observational Cosmology Cosmology

Introduction

From the Zuni indians we hear of Awonawilona, the All-Containing, who is; self-conceived and by his own volition brings himself into being; a feat reminiscent of how the Egyptian god Ra-Khepera brought himself into existence by, essentially, uttering his own name.

Before the; beginning of the new-making there was nothing; else whatsoever throughout the great space of the ages save everywhere black; darkness in it and everywhere void desolation.

The world is a black, desolate, void which transforms into our physical world by Awonawilona's thinking about; the forms needed to populate it. The Uitoto indians of Columbia take this one step further by considering that all of the universe is but the on-gong dream of their chief god Naimuena.

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Zuni girl with jar. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Zuni girl with pottery jar on her head. Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer. c1903. (Source: WikiMedia Commons.)

Citation

Odenwald, Sten, Ph.D. (Contributing Author); Bernard Haisch (Topic Editor). 2009. "Universe: Zuni Indian." In: Encyclopedia of the Cosmos. Eds. Bernard Haisch and Joakim F. Lindblom (Redwood City, CA: Digital Universe Foundation). [First published February 14, 2008].
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