When my wife talked me into first meeting Native American Medicine Men and women and I started meeting Tibetan Lamas and being initiated by them here in the U.S. around 1980 sometime during the next 3 years I learned that the Hopi word for "Sun" is the Tibetan word for "Moon" and the Hopi word for "moon" is the Tibetan word for "sun".
I asked at the time for a realistic explanation for this. One theory was that there is an East and a West Pole to earth and that the East Pole is in Tibet and the West Pole is in Hopi Land and that somehow some way there might have been some way there was a sort of interchange of people between the two poles. Also, if you look at traditional Hopi jewelry it is almost identical to Tibetan Jewelry which also has a lot of turquoise and Amber stones set or strung into it. Also, the general non-dualistic attitude among Native American Medicine men and women and Tibetan Lamas, monks and anis (pronounced Annie's which are Tibetan Nuns) both lend themselves to a lot of laughter and a sort of Zen view of the real world and all that is in it. It is sort of "It's a sorry saint that can't dance" or "If you can't laugh at yourself you'll never be enlightened".
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So, what is the Tibetan word for moon?
Sorry- I don't speak enough Tibetan and I don't speak enough Hopi to know. I guess you would have to find someone that speaks or writes Hopi and someone who speaks or writes Tibetan or someone who is fluent in both.
The true part is that the Tibetan word for moon is dawa, which sounds similar to the Hopi word for sun, taawa. However, there is no such similarity in reverse. The Tibetan word for "sun" is nyima, while the Hopi word for "moon" is muuyaw.
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