koyaanisqatsi
Hopi
Noun
koyaanisqatsi
- corrupted, morally decayed lifestyle (of a community)
Further reading
- A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985), page 30: "koyaanis- corrupted (re social life of a group); koyaanisqatsi corrupted life (re group)"
- Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma, Lorena Lomatuway'ma, Hopi Tales of Destruction (→ISBN, 2002), page 36 (uses this to describe the state of a village where inhabitants became obsessed with games and sex and kwangwa'ewqatsi, "life of pleasure", and neglected their duties; contrast suyanisqatsi, "life of harmony and balance")
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983 motion picture)