In the right hand he carries the whizzer or bull-roarer, a slat towhich a string is attached, with lightning represented bj a zigzagband in red. This framework has attached to each angle an eaglefeather, which the painter has indicated in black lines. In his left hand he carries the framework of sticks which symbolizesthe lightning. ( The Commons ) the Heart-of-the-sky god,who is readily i-ecognized by the single curved horn on the headand the rain-cloud symbols on the face and base of the horn. Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists (1904). These weather phenomena are also associated with the Hopi sky god Sótuknang. The day prior to the final Snake Dance performance in the plaza, before sunrise with Orion and Sirius rising, two warriors of the Snake society make several circuits around the Snake and Antelope kivas, each with a bull-roarer ( tovokìnpi) and a lightning-frame, which respectively represent the thunder and lightning of the monsoon storms that begin in July and continue into August and early September.
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