Talk:Sipapu

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[edit] Sipapu also appeared in the walls (?)

Both my wife and I recollect that during one of our tours (probably the (Mesa Verde Long House tour since this was ranger-guided) that someone said (or else we read: could have been the Mesa Verde Step House or the Aztec ruins or Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito) that sometimes the sipapu appeared in a wall rather than in the floor. Does anyone have a source for that? Meanwhile I'll hunt for a source . . . wvbaileyWvbailey 16:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not a fire pit?

If the fire was on the level of the main floor, it would be helpful to include some language to distinguish the sipapu from a fire pit. Ahazred8 21:48, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The fire pit would be a sizable depression in the floor, or perhaps in a raised area above the floor bounded by stones, or perhaps in a depression that also had side walls. But the sipapu was (usually) its own little hole (a few inches in diameter) in the floor and not apparently used for fire. Or a depression in a side-wall of a quasi-below-ground structure. That is my understanding of it. wvbaileyWvbailey 22:25, 15 September 2007 (UTC)