The beauty of the area is obvious when looking at these pictures, but, what led to the extreme degradation in your composition/editing skills between yesterday's "sacred 1" post and this post today (sacred 2)? There is hardly an image worth a damn in this post. I like the one where your flying down the dirt road at 50mph behind the woman's SUV, but the others are rubbish. The 7th image seems to include Blanca peak, the most sacred of the 4 sacred mountains to local native peoples.
AND Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happens, however, to every one who meditates upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man. And lo, there spurted into his face all at once a cry of pain, and two curses and twenty bad invectives, so that in his fright he raised his stick and also struck the trodden one. Immediately afterwards, however, he regained his composure, and his heart laughed at the folly he had just committed.
"Pardon me," said he to the trodden one, who had got up enraged, and had seated himself, "pardon me, and hear first of all a parable.
As a wanderer who dreams of remote things on a lonesome highway, runs unawares against a sleeping dog, a dog which lies in the sun...
So you keep messing up my comments, by adding additional images to old blog posts? Making me looks like a big dum dum.
Blanca Peak is known to the Navajo people as the Sacred Mountain of the East: Sisnaajiní (or Tsisnaasjiní), the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. The mountain is considered to be the eastern boundary of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. It is associated with the color white, and is said to be covered in daylight and dawn and fastened to the ground with lightning. It is gendered male.
Hesperus is notable as the Diné (Navajo) Peoples' Sacred Mountain of the North, Dibé Ntsaa or Dibentsaa, 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.
To the Navajo people, Mount Taylor is Tsoodził, the turquoise mountain, one of the four sacred mountains marking the cardinal directions and the boundaries of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. Mount Taylor marks the southern boundary, and is associated with the direction south and the color blue; it is gendered female. In Navajo mythology, First Man created the sacred mountains from soil from the Fourth World, together with sacred matter, as replicas of mountains from that world. He fastened Mount Taylor to the earth with a stone knife. The supernatural beings Black God, Turquoise Boy, and Turquoise Girl are said to reside on the mountain. Mount Taylor is also sacred to the Acoma, Laguna and Zuni people.
The San Francisco Peaks have had a considerable religious significance to thirteen local American Indian tribes (including the Havasupai, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni.) In particular, the peaks form the Navajo sacred mountain of the west, called the Dook'o'oosłííd in their language. The peaks are associated with the color yellow, and they are said to contain abalone inside, to be secured to the ground with a sunbeam, and to be covered with yellow clouds and evening twilight. They are gendered female.
Of these four peaks, I have climbed Taylor (Tsoodził) and San Francisco (Dook'o'oosłííd). They are both merely "strenuous walks" with very limited exposure. I have been researching Hesperus (Dibé Ntsaa or Dibentsaa) as my next in the series, and it involves some limited scrambling up rocky, exposed areas. Blanca is described as "enjoyable" but also "class 3" which I will need to research more to understand. I would feel more comfortable climbing this 4th and most epic sacred mountain with a Navajo guide or Himalayan Sherpa.
The beauty of the area is obvious when looking at these pictures, but, what led to the extreme degradation in your composition/editing skills between yesterday's "sacred 1" post and this post today (sacred 2)? There is hardly an image worth a damn in this post. I like the one where your flying down the dirt road at 50mph behind the woman's SUV, but the others are rubbish. The 7th image seems to include Blanca peak, the most sacred of the 4 sacred mountains to local native peoples.
ReplyDeleteAND Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happens, however, to every one who meditates upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man. And lo, there spurted into his face all at once a cry of pain, and two curses and twenty bad invectives, so that in his fright he raised his stick and also struck the trodden one. Immediately afterwards, however, he regained his composure, and his heart laughed at the folly he had just committed.
ReplyDelete"Pardon me," said he to the trodden one, who had got up enraged, and had seated himself, "pardon me, and hear first of all a parable.
As a wanderer who dreams of remote things on a lonesome highway, runs unawares against a sleeping dog, a dog which lies in the sun...
So you keep messing up my comments, by adding additional images to old blog posts? Making me looks like a big dum dum.
ReplyDeleteBlanca Peak is known to the Navajo people as the Sacred Mountain of the East: Sisnaajiní (or Tsisnaasjiní), the Dawn or White Shell Mountain. The mountain is considered to be the eastern boundary of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. It is associated with the color white, and is said to be covered in daylight and dawn and fastened to the ground with lightning. It is gendered male.
Hesperus is notable as the Diné (Navajo) Peoples' Sacred Mountain of the North, Dibé Ntsaa or Dibentsaa, 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.
ReplyDeleteTo the Navajo people, Mount Taylor is Tsoodził, the turquoise mountain, one of the four sacred mountains marking the cardinal directions and the boundaries of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. Mount Taylor marks the southern boundary, and is associated with the direction south and the color blue; it is gendered female. In Navajo mythology, First Man created the sacred mountains from soil from the Fourth World, together with sacred matter, as replicas of mountains from that world. He fastened Mount Taylor to the earth with a stone knife. The supernatural beings Black God, Turquoise Boy, and Turquoise Girl are said to reside on the mountain. Mount Taylor is also sacred to the Acoma, Laguna and Zuni people.
ReplyDeleteThe San Francisco Peaks have had a considerable religious significance to thirteen local American Indian tribes (including the Havasupai, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni.) In particular, the peaks form the Navajo sacred mountain of the west, called the Dook'o'oosłííd in their language. The peaks are associated with the color yellow, and they are said to contain abalone inside, to be secured to the ground with a sunbeam, and to be covered with yellow clouds and evening twilight. They are gendered female.
ReplyDeleteOf these four peaks, I have climbed Taylor (Tsoodził) and San Francisco (Dook'o'oosłííd). They are both merely "strenuous walks" with very limited exposure. I have been researching Hesperus (Dibé Ntsaa or Dibentsaa) as my next in the series, and it involves some limited scrambling up rocky, exposed areas. Blanca is described as "enjoyable" but also "class 3" which I will need to research more to understand. I would feel more comfortable climbing this 4th and most epic sacred mountain with a Navajo guide or Himalayan Sherpa.
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