Polik-mana

File:Palhik mana (butterfly maiden) kachina, Arizona, Hopi people, Honolulu Museum of Art.JPG

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.{{cite book|last1=Loar|first1=Julie|title=Goddesses for Every Day: Exploring the Wisdom & Power of the Divine Feminine around the World|date=2010|publisher=New World Library|isbn=9781577319511|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OturV0aQa-IC&pg=PA65}} Hopi girls participating in the Butterfly Dance wear ornate headdresses called kopatsoki.{{cite web|title=Hopi Butterfly Dance|url=http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/circleofdance/hopi.html|website=National Museum of the American Indian}}

The Polik-mana Mons, a mountain on Venus, is named for the Butterfly Maiden.{{cite web|title=Polik-mana Mons|url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4780?__fsk=-2027526539|website=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature}}