First World

first-world problems

(informal) Wealthy, developed nations, contrasted with the Third World.


paho

(religion) A sacred prayer stick in the Hopi religion.


piki

A paper-thin, dry, rolled bread made by the Hopi with nixtamalized blue corn meal.


Hopisinom

The first element is Hopi (“Hopi”), the second is sinom (“people”); the first element is related to e.g. hopi'iw-ta (“behaving”), hence "people who behave, who live in the correct way".


kachina

A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.


kachina

Alternative spelling of katchina (“kachina”) (spirit being)


Fourth World

After First World, Second World, and Third World.

“Three of the deadliest structural collapses in the last 10 years occurred in one county. That’s not even including the other structural failures that were not deadly. One county, dude. This is a third-world government and a fourth-world infrastructure, at the risk of insulting the fourth world.”

2022 February 3, Joel Stein, “How Miami became the most important city in America”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2022-02-16:

How did it become what we might as well call a fourth world country that happens to possess intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear payloads?

2024 October 23, Nicholas Eberstadt, “Who’s Afraid of Korean Reunification?”, in Milken Institute Review:

(informal, derogatory, attributive) A notional standard of living or level of development lower than that in the stereotyped Third World.


hopi

fr-adj

hopi (feminine hopie, masculine plural hopis, feminine plural hopies)

hopie (feminine)
hopis (masculine plural)
hopies (feminine plural)

Holonym: pueblo


Dookʼoʼoosłííd

It means “its summit never melts”: doo (“not”) akʼi (“on top”) ʼa- (3rd-person indefinite subject pronoun) + yi- (transitional aspect denoting change in form) + -ł- (transitive classifier) + -lííd (verb stem meaning to melt off)

San Francisco Peaks
San Francisco Peaks#English

San Francisco Peaks (a mountain range in Coconino County, Arizona, United States).


katchina

Borrowed from English kachina, itself from Hopi.


sipapu

A small hole or indentation in the floor of a kiva, symbolizing the portal through which the ancient ancestors emerged into the world.


Shalako

A Zuni ceremony, performed at the winter solstice.


Shalako

Borrowed from Hopi Saʼlako, from Zuni [Term?].


Oraibi

Holonym: Hotevilla-Bacavi

A Hopi village in Arizona, United States.


Maraw

Borrowed from Hopi Maraw (“member of the Maraw society”), from maraw (“a kind of insect”).


Komantsi

A type of Hopi dancer who impersonates a Comanche.


Taiowa

Borrowed from English Taiowa, itself from Hopi.


Tokpela

Borrowed from English Tokpela, itself from Hopi.


Sótuknang

(Hopi religion) Nephew of Taiowa and creator of the nine universal kingdoms.


Kókyangwúti

(Hopi religion) Helper of Sótuknang and creator of living beings.


pics San Francisco

les pics San Francisco (canonical masculine plural)

The San Francisco Peaks (a mountain range in Coconino County, Arizona, United States).


San Francisco Peaks

A mountain range in Coconino County, Arizona, United States.


Sotuknang

(Hopi religion) Alternative spelling of Sótuknang


Sotuknang

Borrowed from English Sotuknang, itself from Hopi.


Wuwuchim

French: Wuwuchim


Wuwuchim

Borrowed from English Wuwuchim, itself from Hopi.


Soyal

A Hopi ceremony celebrating the return of the kachinas from the San Francisco Peaks at the winter solstice.


Soyal

Borrowed from English Soyal, itself from Hopi.


Powamu

Borrowed from English Powamu, itself from Hopi.


Niman Katchina

Borrowed from English Niman Kachina, itself from Hopi.


Maasa'u

Borrowed from English, itself from Hopi.


Kokyangwuti

Borrowed from English Kókyangwúti, itself from Hopi Kookyangwuuti.


Mère Araignée

(Hopi religion) Synonym of Kokyangwuti (“Spider Woman”)


Quatrième Univers

le Quatrième Univers (canonical masculine)


Tuwaquachi

Borrowed from English Túwaquachi, itself from Hopi.


Cinquième Univers

le Cinquième Univers (canonical masculine)


Cinquième Monde

le Cinquième Monde (canonical masculine)

(Navajo religion) Fifth World (the present world)


Màasaw

The Hopi god of fire and death and the guardian spirit of the present Fourth World.


Hopi Reservation

Holonyms: Arizona, Navajo Nation

Meronyms: Awatovi, Kykotsmovi Village, Moenkopi, First Mesa, Second Mesa, Third Mesa

A Native American reservation in Arizona, United States.


Masau'u

(Hopi religion) Alternative spelling of Màasaw


Sikyátki

Holonym: First Mesa

An ancient village in Arizona, United States


Niman Kachina

A Hopi ceremony celebrating the departing of the kachinas for the San Francisco Peaks at the summer solstice.


Lakon

Borrowed from English Lakon, itself from Hopi.


Fifth World

After the Fourth World.
The second sense was coined before 13 July 2002 by micropatriologist Cesidio Tallini.

The Aztec did not realize that all people are the Children of the Creator. They failed to conquer the Fifth World. Instead, Western man conquered the Aztec, and tried to destroy what he thought was Indian Religion.

1975, Tony Shearer, Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun: A Poetic Re-appraisal of the Sacred Calendar and the Prophecies of Ancient Mexico, Sun Publishing Company, page 107:

In the Aztec tradition, the Fifth World is the last one, and after a tremendous quake destroys it, the earth is not re-created. According to the Aztecs, human sacrifice is required to prolong the age of the Fifth World or the ritual letting of blood keeps the sun in motion—it is when the sun stops that the earth begins to quake and the apocalypse occurs.

2004, Lorena Laura Stookey, Thematic Guide to World Mythology, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 20:

A world in a number of American mythologies:

(Aztec mythology) Synonym of Fifth Sun (“The present and final world, which will not be recreated once the Earth is destroyed.”)


Black Mesa

Holonym: Navajo Nation

Meronyms: Big Mountain, Black Mesa Wash, First Mesa, Second Mesa, Third Mesa

An upland area in Apache County and Navajo County, Arizona, United States.


Qootsaptuvela

Holonym: First Mesa

An ancient village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States


Mawyavi

Moenavi (an unidentified Hopi settlement in Arizona, United States)


Kykotsmovi

Kykotsmovi Village
Kykotsmovi Village#English


Kiqötsmovi

census-designated place
census-designated place

Kykotsmovi Village (a census-designated place in Navajo County, Arizona, United States).


Nuvakwewtaqa

Chavez Pass (a mountain pass in Coconino County, Arizona, United States)

Chavez Pass Ruins
Chavez Pass Ruins#English

Chavez Pass Ruins (an ancient settlement in Coconino County, Arizona, United States)


Chavez Pass

A mountain pass in Coconino County, Arizona, United States

An ancient settlement in Coconino County, Arizona, United States


Bahanna

(Hopi culture) Synonym of white (“European American”)


Bahanna

(Hopi culture) Synonym of white (“European American”).


Grand-Mère Araignée

(Hopi religion) Synonym of Kokyangwuti (“Spider Grandmother”)


Quatrième Monde

le Quatrième Monde (canonical masculine)


Tavasuh

Borrowed from Hopi tusavuhta, from a term meaning "head pounders", referring to the historical practice of killing captured enemies by beating them with a club.

(ethnic slur, Hopi culture, derogatory) Synonym of Navajo.

Anasazi

considered insulting to Hopi people because it was using a Navajo-language name for their ancestors

Moqui

dead; insult against Hopi people as it resembles the word for


powaqa

(Hopi culture) Synonym of two-heart (sorcerer).


Chakpahu

Holonym: Antelope Mesa

A village in Navajo County, Arizona, United States


Akokavi

Holonym: Antelope Mesa


Tuuwanasavi

(Hopi religion) The geographical center of Earth.


Sípàapuni

Unadapted borrowing from Hopi Sípàapuni.

Little Colorado River Gorge
Little Colorado River Gorge#English

A geological formation of the Little Colorado River Gorge, Arizona, United States, from where the Hopi people emerged into the Fourth World.


Yàyniwpu

Valley of Mexico
Valley of Mexico#English

A geological formation near the Valley of Mexico, Mexico, from where some Hopi clans emerged into the Fourth World.


Yàyniwpu

Yàyniwpu (a geological formation near the Valley of Mexico, Mexico).


Hisatsinom

Unadapted borrowing from Hopi Hisatsinom. Literally Ancient People.

ubor

Meronyms: Motisinom, Palatkwapi clans


Motisinom

Holonym: Hisatsinom

Ancestors of the Hopi people who were indigenous to the Colorado Plateau.


Palatkwapi

Unadapted borrowing from Hopi Palatkwapi, from palat + kwap + pi. Translated as Red-walled city or Red Land of the South.

The mythical place of origin of the Palatkwapi clans.


Palatkwapi clans

Holonym: Hisatsinom

Ancestors of the Hopi people who migrated from Mesoamerica.


Hopitutskwa

Meronyms: Hotvela-Paaqavi, Wàlpi

Hopi Reservation
Hopi Reservation#English

The Hopi Reservation (a Native American reservation in Arizona, United States).


Awat'ovi

Holonyms: Antelope Mesa, Hopi Reservation

An ancient village in Arizona, United States


Kachina Woman

A rock formation and New Age site in Sedona, Arizona.