Mother Earth Father Sky Navajo
Mother earth father sky.
Mother earth father sky navajo. Between father sky and mother earth native american music duration. Navajo language curriculum designer and harold carey jr. Even though she takes us daily we will become part of her again. Harrison begay navajo boy sand painting silk screen matted 10 x 8 35 00.
In this large detailed navajo weaving of father sky and mother earth the usual rainbow guardian is replaced by a black ribbon border. Who is the god of the navajo. 0 940666 05 7 29 95 cloth the rainbow raised up with me. Earth my mother we are made from her.
The field is white with most of the field covered up by the large figures of father sky and mother earth. Taylor to the south san francisco peak to the west and mt hesperus to the north near durango colorado thus creating navajoland. Above father sky and mother earth are protected by two guardians a yei and a bat. They were taught to live in harmony with mother earth father sky and the many other elements such as man animals plants and insects.
The earth is our mother. Many navajo ceremonies prayers and songs are based on maintaining balance and harmony between father sky and mother earth. Vintage father sky mother earth navajo yei sand painting r begay native american. Page 175 she describes the intricate careful detailed process involved in making a sandpainting.
George blueeyes a navajo elder wrote a poem that expresses the navajo reverence for the earth and sky with great lyricism and dignity. We say nahasdzaan shima. For we are her. To the navajo father sky and mother earth who represent male and female equally provide all that is needed to live and prosper on earth.
Mother earth father sky. Mother earth father sky pueblo and navajo indians of the southwest by marcia keegan 97 color photographs 112 pages 10 1 2 x 12 1 2 isbn. 2019 fair event links. Who is the god of the navajo.
A navajo historian and photojournalist from malad city idaho. Blanca to the east mt. Eastern navajo fair july 24 28 southwest fair rodeo august 2 4. Through the middle of broad fields.
The holy people put four sacred mountains in four different directions mt. The author concentrated on the mother earth father sky sandpainting because it is the most familiar to outsiders and presents the most detailed depiction of the navajo heavens of sandpaintings in use today.