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Polik-mana or Butterfly Maiden is a kachina, or spirit being, in Hopi mythology. Every spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating the fields and flowers and bringing life-giving rain to the Arizona desert. She is represented by a woman dancer at the yearly Butterfly Dance, a traditional initiation rite for Hopi girls. The rite takes place in late summer, before the harvest, to give thanks to Polik-mana for her spring dance.[1] Hopi girls participating in the Butterfly Dance wear ornate headdresses called kopatsoki.[2]
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The Polik-mana Mons, a mountain on Venus, is named for the Butterfly Maiden.[3]
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