Note 37 — THE RUIN, SIKYATKI

In modern Hopi symbolism the sun is a disk with representations of eagle feathers around the periphery and radial lines at each quadrant, symbolic of the sun’s rays. In disks worn on the back where real feathers are used the radial lines, or the sun’s rays, are represented by horsehair stained red. In ceremonials the Sky god is personated by a bird whose figure occurs on Sikyatki pottery.