Editing Hopi mythology (section)

== In popular culture ==
The 1982 [[art film]]/[[avant-garde]] [[opera]] ''[[Koyaanisqatsi]]'' references both the [[Hopi language|Hopi]] term ''Ko.yan.nis.qatsi'' ("life out of balance"), and three Hopi prophecies{{dubious|date=April 2020}} —i.e. warnings or [[eschatology]].
* "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
* "Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
* "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

[[David Lanz]] and [[Paul Speer]]'s 1987 [[New-age music|new-age]] album ''Desert Vision'' has a track named "Tawtoma."

The novel by [[Tony Hillerman]], ''[[The Dark Wind]]'', first published in 1982, discusses Hopi mythology throughout the story, as key characters are Hopi men, and events of the story occur near important shrines or during an important ceremony. The fictional Navajo sergeant Jim Chee works with fictional Hopi Albert "Cowboy" Dashee, who is a deputy for Coconino County, Arizona, and speaks Hopi and English, translating for Chee on occasion, as well as explaining shrines and ceremonies to him.

In the 2001 novel ''[[American Gods]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]], Mr. Ibis (an incarnation of the [[Ancient Egyptian deities|ancient Egyptian god]] [[Thoth]]) discusses the reluctance of scientists to accept evidence of [[pre-Columbian]] visitors to the Americas, and refers to the ''sipapu'' story as historical fact: "Heaven knows what'll happen if they ever actually find the Hopi emergence tunnels. That'll shake a few things up, you just wait."

In the Jordan Peele film ''[[Us (2019 film)|Us]]'', Addy as a little girl in 1986 walks up to and into the Shaman's Vision Quest attraction, the entrance of which is topped by a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] man with a [[headdress]] on and his right hand pointing at potential questers. Underneath him, just above the entrance, light bulbs form the words "FIND YOURSELF" and an arrow slowly flashing on and off. Although difficult to hear, [[closed captioning]] makes clear that a recorded narration on the speaker system for the attraction is recounting aspects of the Hopi creation story:

:These, the earth and water, he divided into places from which life could spring. The mountains and the valleys and the waters were all where they belonged. Then Sotuknang went to Taiowa and said, "I want you to see what I have done. And I have done well." And Taiowa looked and said, "It is very good. But you are not done with it. Now you must create life of all kinds and set it in motion according to my plan." [A fake owl, hooting, pops out of a fake tree, so a few words are obscured.] ... and went into space and gathered substance to create his helper, the Spider Woman. "Look all about you, Spider Woman," said Sotuknang. "Here now is endless space, but in the world, there is no joyful movement. The world ..." [Then the electricity goes out.]

Decades later, when the adult Addy, with her husband and children, return to the same boardwalk where Shaman's Vision Quest was, it is now called Merlin's Forest.