Kachina is providing Internet access, disk space, a publicly accessible test system, as well as manpower on software packaging and testing to help the Debian Sparc effort. |
The kachina dancers are sacred and represent the rain gods. |
They will allow themselves to be seen by a community if its men properly perform a traditional ritual while wearing kachina masks and other regalia. |
The kachina religion was most active among the western Pueblos and was less important as one traveled east. |
A modern relic of early culture, the kachina doll of the Pueblo Indians, while essentially an instructive sacred object, is played with by children as a means to learn the myths of their culture. |
The workshop focuses on the Hopi kachina as a representation of the spirits in nature, especially as they relate to rainfall. |