For the Navajo (as with many tribes), the
storytellers used legends to pass important
cultural infomation from one generation to the
next. As this legend is told, "Spider Woman"
was a mythological woman who lived atop
Spider Rock. There she created beautifully
intricate weavigs. One day a very curious little
girl climbed Spider Rock. She wished to learn
how the Spider Woman crafted such wonderful
creations. Astonished at the young girl's
courage, the Spider Woman revealed her
creative secrets; whereupon the little Navajo
descended from the rock and taught her
people how to duplicate the magnificent
weavings of the Spider Woman.
Mark Silversmith
There was a time when every gazing hill
Was holy with the wonder that it saw,
And every valley was a place of awe,
And what the grass knew never could be told.
NAVAJO PRAYER
This Hogan will be a blessed Hogan.
It will become a Hogan of Dawn,
Dawn Boy will live in beauty in it,
It will be a Hogan of white corn,
It will be a Hogan of soft goods,
It will be a Hogan of crystal water,
It will be a Hogan dusted with pollen.
It will be a Hogan of long - life happyness,
It will be a Hogan of beauty above it,
It will be a Hogan of beauty all arround it.
From Hogan Blessing Cermony
Objects needed for blessing hogan
East wall - good piece of turquoise, imbedded
Door Lentel - Herbs & minerals from each of. the four sacred mts.
A Navajo Singers Chant from the
NIGHTWAY CEREMONY
A curing ceremony
With your moccasins of dark cloud,
Come to us.
With your leggings of dark cloud,
Come to us.
With your shirt of dark cloud,
Come to us.
With your head-dress of dark cloud,
Come to us.
With your mind enveloped in dark cloud,
Come to us
With the dark thunder above you,
Come to us soaring.
With the shaped cloud at your feet,
Come to us soaring.
With the far darkness made of the
dark cloud over your head,
Come to us soaring.
Among the Lands of Dawning, he stirs
The pollen of Dawning,he stirs, he stirs
Now in old age wandering, he stirs, he stirs
Now on the traik of beauty, he stirs, he stirs
Talking God, he stirs, he stirs
HUNTING
The sky it talks about it
The Talking God one he tells about it
The darkness to be one knows about it
The Talking God is with me
With the Talking God I kill the male game.
SAFETY
Everywhere I go myself (put pollen on chest)
May I have luck
Everywhere my close relations go
May they have their good luck.
In the house made of dawn
In the house made of evening twilight
In the house made of dark cloud
Happily may he walk
In beauty may he walk
With beauty all arround him he walks
With beauty it is finished
With beauty it is finished.
HUNTING
In shoes of dark flint I track the Ute warrior
In armor of flint I slay the Ute enemy
With Big Snake Man I go, tracking the warrior
I usually slay the Ute man and slay the Ute woman
Tracking Bear I go, taking Ute scalps.
This page was last updated on: November 10, 2008
I've been arround since hell was frosty an' jackrabbits
still wore horns..
Ihambleiciyapi (vision quest)
NIGHTWAY CHANT
The world before me is restored in beauty
The world behind me is restored in beauty
The world below me is restored in beauty
The world above me is restored in beauty
All things arround me are restored in beauty.
My voice is restored in beauty
It is finished in beauty It is finished in beauty
It is finished in beauty
It is finished in beauty.
CONSCIOUSNESS
I do not see a delagation
For the four-footed
I see no seat for the eagles
We forget and we consider
Ourselves superior
But we are after all
A mere part of Creation
And we stand somewhere between
The mountain and the ant.
Somewhere and only there
As part and parcel
Of the Creation.
Chief Oren Lyons
before the UN
Geneva Switzerland
1977
Ali's (BIDEEZHI Navajo for Little Sister) Visit from Holland - Pow Wow 10/05.
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