Meaning Of The Word Kachina

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kachina in American English
a beneficent spirit, either a minor deity or the spirit of an ancestor
noun: any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Native American Hopi people and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers

kachina in British English
noun: any of the supernatural beings believed by the Hopi people to be the ancestors of living humans

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