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Secret Teachings of All Ages
American Indian Symbolism (9)
The Navahos first emerged about 3,000 years ago at a point now called La Platte Mountain in Colorado. The four mountains sacred to the Navahos are La Platte Mountain, Mount Taylor, Navaho Mountain, and San Francisco Mountain. While these three nations were under the earth four mountain ranges were below with them. The eastern mountains were white, the southern blue, the western yellow, and the northern black. The rise and fall of these mountains caused the alternation of day and night. When the white mountains rose it was day under the earth; when the yellow ones rose, twilight; the black mountains brought night, and the blue, dawn. Seven major deities were recognized by the Navahos, but Hasteen Klah was unable to say whether the Indians related these deities to the planets. Bakochiddy, one of these seven major gods, was white in color with light reddish hair and gray eyes. His father was the sun ray and his mother the daylight. He ascended to heaven and in some respects his life parallels that of Christ. To avenge the kidnapping of his child, Kahothsode, a fish god, caused a great flood to arise. To escape destruction, the Zunis, Hopis, and Navahos ascended to the surface of the earth.
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Part III, Chapter 9 (6)
Here, too, began their song, which they call camucú; they sang it, but only the pain in their hearts and their innermost selves they expressed in thei...
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Part III, Chapter 6 (2)
They took turns at watching the Great Star called Icoquih, which rises first before the sun, when the sun rises, the brilliant Icoquih, which was...
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Part III, Chapter 9 (5)
Immediately afterward Tohil, Avilix, and Hacavitz were turned to stone, together with the deified beings the puma, the jaguar, the snake, the cantil,...
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Part III, Chapter 8 (8)
First there were Tohil, Avilix, and Hacavitz. Great was their glory, their strength, and their power over the gods of all the tribes. Many were their...
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Part III, Chapter 9 (3)
The Priests and the sacrificers were kneeling; great was the joy of the priests and sacrificers and of the people of Tamub and Ilocab and the people...
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Part IV, Chapter 4 (6)
In this way were all of the tribes destroyed by our first mothers and fathers; and this happened there on the mountain Hacavitz, as it is now called....
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Part I, Chapter 1 (3)
Then while they meditated, it became clear to them that when dawn would break, man must appear. Then they planned the creation, and the growth of the...
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Part III, Chapter 8 (9)
With respect to them [the gods]. They felt no anxiety in their hearts for the gods whom they had received, and had carried on their backs when they ca...
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Part III, Chapter 9 (9)
The speech of the god was also changed when they were given their god there, in Tulán, near the stone; their speech was changed when they came from...
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Part II, Chapter 14 (8)
Then they rose up in the midst of the light, and instantly they were lifted into the sky. One was given the sun, the other, the moon. Then the arch...
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Part I, Chapter 9 (2)
We are poor and we have nothing, young man. We only walk over the large and small mountains, young man, and we have just seen a large mountain, over t...
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Part III, Chapter 9 (1)
Here, then, is the dawn, and the coming of the sun, the moon, and the stars. Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam were very happy when...
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Part I, Chapter 1 (2)
There was only immobility and silence in the darkness, in the night. Only the creator, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water...
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Part III, Chapter 10 (1)
Their hearts mourned for Tohil, Avilix, and Hacavitz, whom they had placed among the air-plants and the moss. We shall tell now how they made the sacr...
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Part IV, Chapter 2 (2)
Already, many were the men who had been carried off, but the tribes did not notice it until later. "Could it be Tohil. and Avilix who have been here...
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Part III, Chapter 1 (6)
The animals showed them the road. And then grinding the yellow corn and the white corn, Xmucané made nine drinks, and from this food came the...
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Part I, Chapter 4 (1)
IT WAS CLOUDY AND TWILIGHT THEN ON the face of the earth. There was no sun yet. Nevertheless, there was a being called Vucub-Caquix, who was very...
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Part I, Chapter 5 (2)
Therefore, we shall try to shoot him with our blowgun when he is eating. We shall shoot him and make him sicken, and then that will be the end of his ...
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Part III, Chapter 5 (6)
Then a man came before Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam and [this man], who was a messenger of Xibalba, spoke thus: "This is, in...
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Part III, Chapter 3 (6)
Look at us, hear us! Do not leave us, do not forsake us, oh, God, who art in heaven and on earth, Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth! Give us our descend...
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