Sipapu

A sipapu (a Hopi word) was a small hole or indentation in the floor of a kiva (pithouse).

The sipapu symbolizes the portal through which their ancient ancestors first emerged to enter the present world.

[1] Hopi mythology (and similar traditions in other Pueblo cultures such as the Zuni and Acoma) states that this is the hole from which the first peoples of this world entered.

The original sipapu is said in Hopi and some other Uto-Aztecan Puebloan mythology to be located in the Grand Canyon.

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The sipapu is the small round hole in the floor of the kiva . The large round hole is a fire pit. The air intake (square hole), the stones blocking air from the intake, the pit and the sipapu form a line: an intentional design. At Long House, Mesa Verde .