Kokopelli’s got a weird place in American culture. Pretty much unique among pre-Colombian divinities, the mainstream makes a point of keeping his name and symbolism alive… as kind of a lazy, vague symbol of “The Desert Southwest”.

Like, if you rule out bare crosses and only count crucifixes with the actual body of Christ, I might have seen more public depictions of Kokopelli than any other god in America, and I could not tell you a single Kokopelli story.

What’s Kokopelli known for? Well, I’ve got a vague sense he’s a trickster, and I guess he plays the flute. “Oh, like the flutist tricksters Pan or the Pied Piper?” Fuuuuuuck if I know, dude.