Sacred Katsina
by Jenny Revitz Soper
Title
Sacred Katsina
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
Medium
Photograph - Digital Enhancements
Description
Pueblo of Isleta is an unincorporated community Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established around the 14th century. Its people are federally recognized as a Native American tribe. It is located in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 13 miles south of Albuquerque. In addition to a cattle ranch, Pueblo of Isleta owns and operates the Isleta Resort Casino, the Eagle Golf Course and the Isleta Lakes Recreational Complex.
This statue, on the grounds of the Isleta Casino in Albuquerque, represents a sacred katsina. Katsinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. A katsina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon or a concept. The local pantheon of katsinas varies in each pueblo community; there may be katsinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects and many other concepts. Katsinas are understood as having humanlike relationships; they may have uncles, sisters and grandmothers, and may marry and have children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility or protection, for example.
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October 22nd, 2017
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