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Nitin Nair, hosting Mythlok, presents the Hopi figure Saquasohuh as a spirit who comes as a blue star and marks a new world. Drawing on Frank Waters, he calls that star the ninth sign of a day of purification. A dancer removes a mask to begin the cleansing, and that mask is set apart from Tawa by eagle feathers. Taiowa, in the sketch he gives, makes nine universes. Early worlds fall because people grow wicked, and faithful Hopi are spared. The rituals are said to end when a dancer unmasks, together with the fourth world. After the star, a true white brother searches for Hopi who still keep the old teachings. If they cannot be found, the earth is destroyed. If that way is carried outward, a fresh start follows. Nair then gives the skeptical side. Jason Colavito found no blue star in Waters’s Book of the Hopi and calls the nine signs a late invention, traced to pastor David Young and the 1987 Harmonic Convergence. Nair says the episode is setting out the versions, not picking a winner.
Key points
- Saquasohuh is presented as a blue star spirit who signals a new world and a day of purification.
- A dancer removing a mask is the sign Waters tied to the end of Hopi ritual and of the fourth world.
- After that star, a true white brother searches for people still keeping the old teachings.
- If the search fails the earth is said to be destroyed, and if the way is shared a new beginning follows.
- Jason Colavito is cited as denying that the blue star is in Waters’s book and calling it a late invention.
- Nair closes on the kachina’s unmasking as the form in which that rescue story is still danced.
Short quotes
a blue star to signify the beginning of the new world
Nitin Nair, Hopi blue star kachina
He presents that star as the mark that a new world is starting. Watch at 1:16
he believes that it was a late 20th century invention
Nitin Nair, Hopi blue star kachina
A critic he cites treats the blue star as a twentieth century addition. Watch at 3:31
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