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According to the Pueblo Indians the spirits of the dead return to this world as kachinas, where they take on cloud form -- become "cloud people" -- and bring the life-giving rains. These rain deities stand at the center of Pueblo religious experience. Without their intervention the crops will not grow, the cisterns will not be filled, the rivers will not flow, the people will not survive.<p>In Kachinas in the Pueblo World, fourteen scholars examine the role of kachinas in the cultures of the Rio
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- Author
- Polly Schaafsma
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press; Brand: University of Utah Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780874806670
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Religion, Art, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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