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The Ute mythology is the mythology of the Ute people, a tribe of Native Americans from the Western United States. Ute mythology is a body of stories and beliefs that ...
The name "Comanche" is from the Ute word for them, kɨmantsi, meaning enemy. [45] The Pawnee, Osage and Navajo also became enemies of the Plains Indians by about 1840. [46] Some Ute bands fought against the Spanish and Pueblos with the Jicarilla Apache and the Comanche. The Ute were sometimes friendly but sometimes hostile to the Navajo. [15]
The masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart Guabancex: The top Storm Goddess; the Lady of the Winds who also deals out earthquakes and other such disasters of nature. Juracán: The zemi or deity of chaos and disorder believed to control the weather, particularly hurricanes ...
Two Ute bands were absorbed into the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. The Pahvant band originally lived in the deserts near Sevier Lake, west of the Wasatch Mountains of western Utah. Many Pahvants were removed by the US government to the Uintah Reservation, but some joined the Kanosh, Koosharem, and other settlements in Utah.
The Tabeguache (Ute language: Tavi'wachi Núuchi, Taveewach, Taviwach, and Taviwac), [2] or “People of Sun Mountain,” was the largest of the ten nomadic bands of the Ute and part of the Northern Ute People. [3] They lived in river valleys of the Gunnison River and Uncompahgre River [4] between the Parianuche to the north and the Weeminuche ...
In Algonquian mythology, the thunderbird controls the upper world while the underworld is governed by the underwater panther or Great Horned Serpent. The thunderbird creates not just thunder (with its wing-flapping) but lightning bolts, which it casts at the underworld creatures.
The name of the language family reflects the common ancestry of the Ute language of Utah and the Nahuan languages (also known as Aztecan) of Mexico. The Uto-Aztecan language family is one of the largest linguistic families in the Americas in terms of number of speakers, number of languages, and geographic extension. [2]
Bear Dance is a Ute ceremonial dance that occurs in the spring. It is a ten-day event to strengthen social ties within the community, encourage courtship, and mark the end of puberty for girls. [ 1 ] The event includes dancing, feasting, games, horse racing, and gambling.