sky people
Mythical aerial beings
Sky people is a phrase used in various indigenous cosmologies and creation stories for beings or ancestors who dwell in or descend from the heavens.
In contemporary usage, it often appears in science fiction and fantasy contexts for extraterrestrial or aerial beings: The sky people came down from their floating mountains.
The term can also refer dismissively to outsiders arriving by aircraft into remote areas.
- aliensBeings from other worlds
- ancient astronautsPrehistoric alien intervention theory
- AvatarDeity in earthly form
- PandoraMythological first woman
- celestialOf the sky above
higher beings · beings · gods · heavens · spirit world · angels · extraterrestrial · flying saucers · visitors · otherworldly · flying · descend · spacecraft · close encounters · mythology · ancestors · spirits · clouds
- American folklorePaul Bunyan, tall tales, folk heroes, John Henry, folk narratives
- Ancient Aliensancient astronauts, extraterrestrial contact, alien gods, alien artifacts
- Native Folklorecreation myth, creation story, thunderbird, windigo, spirit animal
- Indigenous SpiritualityGhost Dance, spirit animals, ancestor spirits, vision quest, ancestral spirits
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- space inhabitantsaliens, astronauts, cosmonauts, Martians, station crew
sky peopleground dwellers
Animals living on soil
earthbound · cave dwellers · land dwellers · terrestrials · groundlings
sky peopleNa'vi
Fictional blue-skinned species
indigenous people · the people · earthborn · locals · naturals
sky, people, skies, skyward, skyline, skylight, skyscraper, person, persons