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单词 sipapu
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Sipapun.

/ˈsiːpapuː/
Forms: Also Shipap(u.
Etymology: < Hopi sípâ·pɨ.
In the beliefs of Pueblo Indians, an opening in the earth, variously located by different tribes, through which their mythical ancestors emerged into the present world; a symbolic representation of this opening, as a hole in the floor of a kiva.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > a spiritual body > place for emergence into present world
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1891 A. F. Bandelier in Jrnl. Amer. Ethnol. & Archaeol. (1892) 3 111 Cibobe is the same as Shipapu, the lagune where the deceased go to rest.
1896 J. W. Fewkes in 16th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1894–5 (1897) 279 The Snake chief at Cipaulovi has no tiponi, and consequently no altar. The only objects at the end of the altar..was a row of twenty snake whips leaning against the ledge of the rear wall, behind the sipapû.
1931 R. Benedict Tales Cochiti Indians (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 98) 3 When the people who came up out of Shipap found these people who had been saved they called them Tsauwan yahana.
1939 E. C. Parsons Pueblo Indian Relig. I. iii. 216 On the road to the sipapu in the west, the place of emergence where the Hopi dead return..an actual spot in the wall of the Grand Canyon.., the breath body is met by..an Agave spirit sentinel.
1955 J. B. Priestley & J. Hawkes Journey down Rainbow vii. 115 Although the Sun Father was worshipped as the great cosmic power, Pueblo religion was mainly directed downwards towards the realm of the Earth Mother, the realm that was reached by way of the Sipapu, the home of the spirits whence the newborn came and the dead returned.
1977 M. Jenkinson Land of Clear Light i. 69 Man came up through the opening, the Sipapu, and flourished upon the surface of the earth... The image of the Sipapu has been likened by non-Indians to the birth process.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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