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Diné Bahaneʼ
( nv, "Story of the People"), the Navajo creation myth, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo as a part of the Navajo religious beliefs. It centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo, and forms the basis of the traditional Navajo way of life and ceremony. The basic outline of begins with the creation of the (Holy Wind) as the mists of lights which arose through the darkness to animate and bring purpose to the four (Holy People) in the different three lower worlds. This event happened before the Earth and the physical aspect of humans had come into existence, but the spiritual aspect of humans had. The Holy People then began journeying through the different worlds, learning important lessons in each one before moving on to the next. The fourth and final world is the world in which the Navajo live in now. The First or Dark World, , was small and centered on an island floating in the middle of four seas. The inhabitants of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navajo People
The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners region and covers more than 27,325 square miles (70,000 square km) of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The Navajo Reservation is slightly larger than the state of West Virginia. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region, and most Navajos also speak English. The states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263) and New Mexico (108,306). More than three-fourths of the enrolled Navajo population resides in these two states. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coyote
The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia. The coyote is larger and more predatory and was once referred to as the American jackal by a behavioral ecologist. Other historical names for the species include the prairie wolf and the brush wolf. The coyote is listed as Least Concern, least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans. It is enlarging its range by moving into urban areas in the eastern U.S. and Canada. The coyote was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013. The coyote has 19 recognized sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tó Bájísh Chíní
Tó is a Portuguese nickname. People with this nickname include the following: * Tó (Mozambican footballer) (born 1980), Mozambican footballer * Tó Barbosa, nickname for António João Ferradeira Santos (born 1992), Portuguese footballer * Tó Cruz (born António José Ramos da Cruz, 1967), Portuguese singer * Tó Ferreira, nickname for José António Alves Ferreira (born 1971), Portuguese footballer * Zé Tó, nickname for José Ántónio Ramos Ribeiro (born 1977), Portuguese footballer See also * To (other) * Tó Neinilii, rain god of the Navajo * To (surname), Chinese/Japanese surname * Tô, Vietnamese surname *Tod (given name) *Toi (name) *Tom (given name) *Ton (given name) *Tor (given name) Tor (Þor) is a Nordic masculine given name derived from the name of the Norse god Thor. It may refer to * Tor Ahlsand (born 1931), Norwegian Olympic rower * Tor Albert Ersdal (born 1972), Norwegian Olympic rower * Tor Arneberg (1928–2015), Norweg ... * Toy (given name) * Ty ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Grandmother
Spider Grandmother ( Hopi ''Kokyangwuti'', Navajo ''Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá'') is an important figure in the mythology, oral traditions and folklore of many Native American cultures, especially in the Southwestern United States. Southwest Hopi Mythology In Hopi mythology, "Spider Grandmother" ( Hopi ''Kokyangwuti'')Spider Woman Stories, published by The University of Arizona Press, 1979. also called "Gogyeng Sowuhti" among many other names can take the shape of an old, or timeless woman or the shape of a common spider in many Hopi stories. When she is in her spider shape, she lives underground in a hole that is like a Kiva. When she is called upon, she will help people in many ways, such as giving advice or providing medicinal cures. "Spider Grandmother" is seen as a leader, a wise individual who represents good things. Creation Stories = First Tale = This story begins with Tawa (the sun god) and Spider Woman (Spider Grandmother) who is identified with the Earth Goddess. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Figure
A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as a string game, or as part of a story involving various figures made in sequence (string story). String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. A popular string game is cat's cradle, but many string figures are known in many places under different names, and string figures are well distributed throughout the world.Elffers, Joost and Schuyt, Michael (1978/1979). ''Cat's Cradles and Other String Figures'', p.197. . History According to Camilla Gryski, a Canadian librarian and author of numerous string figure books, "We don't know when people first started playing with string, or which primitive people invented this ancient art. We d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandpainting Of Dine'tah
Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting. Drypainting is practised by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan and Buddhist monks, as well as Indigenous Australians, and also by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days. History Native American sandpainting In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo nown as the Diné, the Medicine Man (or ''Hatałii'') paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nádleehi
''Nádleehi'' is a social and, at times, ceremonial role in Diné (Navajo) culture – an "effeminate male" or "male-bodied person with a feminine nature". However, the ''nádleehi'' gender role is also fluid and cannot be simply described in terms of rigid gender binaries. Some Diné people recognize four general places on the gender spectrum: feminine woman, masculine woman, feminine man, and masculine man. ''Nádleehí'' may express their gender differently from day to day, or during different periods over their lifetimes, fulfilling roles in community and ceremony traditionally held by either women or men. At times, some may hold positions that can only be held by people who are near the middle of the gender spectrum. Contemporary ''nádleehí'' may or may not participate in the modern, pan-Indian two-spirit or LGBT communities. Notable people who were recognized by their communities as ''nádleehí'' are traditional weaver and ceremonial singer Hosteen Klah (1867–1937) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black God (Navajo Mythology)
{{short description, God in Navajo mythology According to one version of the Navajo creation story, Black God is first encountered by First Man and First Woman on the Yellow (third) world."Navajo Creation Story." Navajo Legends. Web. . Black God is, first and foremost, a fire god. He is the inventor of the fire drill and was the first being to discover the means by which to generate fire.Washington, Matthews. The Night Chant, A Navaho Ceremony. New York: American Musiem, 1902. Print. He is also attributed to the practice of witchcraft.Levy, Jerrold. In the Beginning: The Navajo Genesis. U of California, 1998. 79-93. Print. Black God is not portrayed in the admirable, heroic fashion of other Navajo Gods. Instead, he is imagined as old, slow and apparently helpless. Other times he is imagined as a “a moody, humorless trickster” who “passes himself off as poor so that people will be generous to him.” Appearance Black God has a crescent moon on his forehead, a fullmoon for a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesperus Mountain (Colorado)
Hesperus Mountain ( Navajo: ) is the highest summit of the La Plata Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent thirteener is located in San Juan National Forest, northeast by east ( bearing 59°) of the Town of Mancos in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The summit of Hesperus Mountain is the highest point in Montezuma County. Mountain Though not of particularly high elevation for the region, Hesperus Mountain is visually quite prominent, as it is near the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains and rises over above the area. Hesperus is notable as the Navajo People's Sacred Mountain of the North, ', which marks the northern boundary of the Dinetah, their traditional homeland. It is associated with the color black, and is said to be impregnated with jet. When First Man created the mountain as a replica of mountains in the Fourth World, he fastened it to the ground with a rainbow and covered it in darkness.Robert S. McPherson, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Peaks
The San Francisco Peaks (Navajo: , es, Sierra de San Francisco, Hopi: ''Nuva'tukya'ovi'', Western Apache: ''Dził Tso'', Keres: ''Tsii Bina'', Southern Paiute: ''Nuvaxatuh'', Havasupai-Hualapai: ''Hvehasahpatch''/''Huassapatch''/''Wik'hanbaja'', Yavapai: ''Wi:mun Kwa'', Zuni: ''Sunha K'hbchu Yalanne'', Mojave: '' 'Amat 'Iikwe Nyava'') are a volcanic mountain range in the San Francisco volcanic field in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff and a remnant of the former San Francisco Mountain. The highest summit in the range, Humphreys Peak, is the highest point in the state of Arizona at in elevation. The San Francisco Peaks are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano. An aquifer within the caldera supplies much of Flagstaff's water while the mountain itself is in the Coconino National Forest, a popular recreation site. The Arizona Snowbowl ski area is on the western slopes of Humphreys Peak, and has been the subject of major controversy involving several tribes and envi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Taylor (New Mexico)
Mount Taylor ( nv, Tsoodził) is a dormant stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants. It is the high point of the San Mateo Mountains and the highest point in the Cibola National Forest. It was renamed in 1849 for then-president Zachary Taylor. Previously, it was called ''Cebolleta'' (tender onion) by the Spaniards; the name persists as one name for the northern portion of the San Mateo Mountains, a large mesa. The Navajo, for whom the mountain is sacred, still call it Turquoise Mountain (''Tsoodził''). Mount Taylor is largely forested with some meadows, rising above the desert below. The mountain is heavily eroded to the east. Its slopes were an important source of lumber for neighboring pueblos. Mount Taylor volcanic field Mount Taylor volcano is a prominent volcano that is part of a larger volcanic field that trends to the northeast. The Mount Taylor volcanic field includes Mesa Chivato to the northeast and Grants Ridge to the southwest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
