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Iyatiku
Iyatiku AmericaThe corn goddess of the Keresan Puebloes. From shipap, her underground realm, mankind first emerged, from there infants today are born, and thither go the dead. The Cochiti Puebloes regard Masewi as the hero who led the ancestors of the tribe out of shipap.
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