Kokopelli



So I was asked the other day why I got a Kokopelli tattooed on my leg. I have had the tattoo for a while, some 12 years or something like that. It was always my understanding that Kokopelli was the God of fertility, love and merriment. When there was infighting and dissent amongst tribesment. When families were arguing, and lovers were quarelling. When the crops werent growing, and things just didnt seem to be going all that well in general for a tribe, they would gather around and pray to Kokopelli. In my mind they would build a large fire, and surround it together, fighting and disagreements aside, and come together to pray to the God of love, harmony, merriment, and fertility. As they prayed they would hear him from the distance. Kokopelli would come playing his music through his flute, and dance amongst their crops, and play the music to their fields. He would make his way to the camp fire, and he would dance around it, all the while playing his music. Through his music, he would create an atmosphere of love, and hope, and bring the people back together again. Arguments would be resolved, dissent disolved. Problems would be squashed, and lovers would fall back in love, and together, everyone would dance to the music. The music would bring them together, and through it, life was good again. Couples would make their way back to their tents for the night, and make love and babies, and new couples would get together, and dance the night away. They all would wake up in the morning to glorious new crops, and a rediscovered love for themselves, one another, and the world they live in. That is why I got him tattooed on me. I believe that music brings us together. It breaks down walls, and helps us to forget, and believe, and embrace life, and love, and one another. When you have that type of day, when the music really hits home, and helps you to push on, or open up, or gets you up and dancing, you know what I am talking about.
I looked it up online, and below is a more literal description of what Kokopelli is.

Kokopelli is considered a symbol of fertility who brought well-being to the people, assuring success in hunting, planting and growing crops, and human conception. His "hump" was often considered a bag of gifts, a sack carrying the seeds of plants and flowers he would scatter every spring. Warming the earth by playing his flute and singing songs, Kokopelli would melt the winter snow and create rain, ensuring a good harvest. Kokopelli often displayed a long phallus, symbolizing the fertile seeds of human reproduction.

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