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mythology Archive
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Aboriginal Dreamtime: The Rainbow Serpent
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe Aboriginal Australian Rainbow Serpent meanders snake-like like a river across the landscape, sunlight reflecting the spectrum of colours. He inhabits permanent waterholes and controls precious oils and waters. -
Soyal Ceremony: Hopi Kachinas Dance at Winter Solstice
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsThe Soyal Ceremony begins on the shortest day of the year, and symbolizes the second phase of Creation at the Dawn of Life. Its prayers and rituals implement a plan of life for the coming year, ceremonially turning back the sun toward its summer path. -
Tonantzin Transforms into Our Lady of Guadalupe
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThe future St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin explained to the Bishop of Mexico City how the Virgin appeared to requested a temple be built at Tepeyac in her honor. -
Mexico’s Huichol People: Sustaining the Worlds of Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí
Posted on November 5, 2011 | No CommentsA documentary in two parts about an independent school Tatuutsí Maxakwaxí of the Wixáritari, in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. The school focuses on preservation of their ancient culture and providing life tools for the young, enabling their participation in the official educational system of Mexico. -
Drums and Dance of Día de los Muertos
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsIn pre-Hispanic Nahua culture (Aztec and the many other peoples of Central Mexico), life was seen as a dream, and only in dying could a human truly awaken. Death would set free the soul. -
David Swallow Jr: People Connected Through Spirit and Sacred Places
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsDavid Swallow speaks of a new era, learning from the prophecies of Crazy Horse. After a large flash lights the sky, charcoal and ashes fallen to cover the earth, new grass will grow and the waters clear, and God's children will play together. Follow the spiritual leaders into the sacred places for guidance, to experience a land without modern-day illusion. In the spirit world we are all connected, the fire that generates life without end. -
Inuit People: Melting Ice, Shifting Stars, North not North
Posted on September 24, 2011 | No CommentsInuit communities, elders and hunters, speak regarding social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic and their conception of poles shifting, winds different, stars unrecognized. A Labrador Inuit Aurora Borealis myth illuminates their traditional connection with the stars. -
Bear Dancing into Autumn: Hunting the Big Dipper
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsAutumn approaching, four brothers had the same dream for four nights. They saw a vision of themselves tracking and killing the monster bear. Believing the dream to hold the truth, the brothers followed it into the sky. -
Warao of Guyana: The Origin of the Stars
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe hunter climbed a tree to watch the large woman, a supernatural being, reach time and again into the creek and pulling out two fish, one she would eat, the other thrown into her basket. -
Hopi Legend Part 3: Wildfire of Purification and Old Spider Woman
Posted on June 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsMytho-Historical Prophecy: Facing certain destruction by a massive wildfire raging down from the high peaks, the Oraibi village leader consults Old Spider Woman on overcoming the state of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, that had befallen the land. -
Hopi Legend: Koyaanisqatsi and World Destruction
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Hopi curse of Koyaanisqatsi marks the total disintegration of the life of harmony and balance. The subject of a 1982 tone poem of modern day environmental devastation by Godfrey Reggio, also shown in the mythological destruction of the ancient Hopi city of Pivanhonkyapi. -
Chumash Legend: Hole in the Blanket
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 1 CommentThe world covered in a blanket of darkness, the rock, plant, and animal people found through cooperation and council to give thanks for the goodness of Mother Earth and Grandfather Sun, and let the light shine down.
