Hopi Earrings

Posted in: Design by weddingcometrue | March 6th 2010 | no comments

Hopi earrings, a sacral meaning to a restless world - Hopi population in one of the oldest and still surviving native American. Hopi is an short form of naming  the Hopituh Shi-nu-mu,  meaning "The Peaceful People", once ruling North American`s territory, now restricted to a 1.8 million acre reservation.

Hopi have kept their original sacral understanding of the world, which you will observe crafted in their jewelry. Hopi worship the image of Mother, women in their society are strongly respected as reproducing the first Goddess` powers, more exactly giving birth to children.

Then, they take in account for agricultural use and daily blessing the lunar calendar. Hopi population is anti-war axed, characteristic  which almost produced their extinction, because in missionary times of Catholicism they refused to even protect themselves. Hopi respect every thing and every creature in the nature, the most pregnant characteristic of their culture and behavior, which you will also discover in their jewelry.

Hopi jewelry isn`t that much promoted, even if it`s mostly silver made and as a consequence, very cheap. One reason is that of population size, Hopi aren`t that numerous like Arabs, which have invaded jewelry market with their precious gemstones chandelier earrings.

Anything, you are decided to have one Hopi pair of earrings for a special night or if you want to offer it as a gift, you have plenty sacral and symbolic models to choose from. Any Hopi earring will make you different, special, as descending from a lost world, so the effect of freshening up your look is guaranteed.

You can buy Hopi Waves earrings (about 28$), which in fact have the aspect of some sort of stoned waves than the common waves you know, the same characteristic applies to all Hopi earrings: they look like a strange similitude with what we generally perceive. At the same accessible price of 28$, you can buy Hopi Rain earrings, Hopi Friend earrings- which represent two equal half-moon as in common twins representations, the conclusion is simply to drag: for Hopi friendship becomes a brotherhood.

If you are passionate by mythology, you can have a gorgeous Kokopelli pair of earrings (about 50$), Kokopelli being the goddess of fertility and prosperity and which has as main symbol the corn stalk, meaning an year of good crops (one silver Hopi corn stalk pair of earrings will cost you just 50$). Every Hopi jewels has a story or a myth embodied on it, even if for us they look quite common.

For example, if you offer somebody a Hopi turtle pair of earrings (about 50$), you wish her a long and peaceful life, knowing that turtles have a few predators and they reach remarkable ages, if you offer Hopi bear paw earrings, means that you wish that person to have strength to go on and fight. There are many stories like these about Hopi earrings, which you will discover all by yourself.