On a Saturday, I went for a
walk in Joshua Tree National Park with two friends. I moved near
the park from Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place many regard as a
destination. My destination had been to return to this area to be
closer to the boulders. In 1982 I had various enchanting
experiences which left me hungry for more. My friends knew a
location of Mayan glyphs and where they held initiations. “What kind
of initiations?” I asked. ” Well, we guided them to this place where
we burned incense and sat in meditation.”
We stepped through twisted
trees along a dry gulch, around embankments, and up onto a low-level
granite shelf. "Go ahead," they coaxed me. I was staring at a
boulder shaped like a helmet with a space for a turtle’s head to
stick out. You had to get down on your knees to enter through it.
Sure enough, once inside the boulder, there was an ochre-painted sun
above us and red ochre lines with circular ball shapes underscoring
groupings, counting days perhaps, and what resembled a glyph for
corn or water. It definitely was Mayan.
We went in search of
another petroglyph, a woman wearing a skirt. The portal we walked
through was a grouping of three flat vertically-rising granite
boulders. There were animal tracks on the sand. I called my friends
for a look when suddenly we were face to face with a big horned
sheep. Just as startled as it was, we stood frozen in awe. It
moved out of range and we followed while my friends pointed to the
woman glyph with a stick like figure next to it on bended knee. The
red ochre woman was at the bottom of the boulder, giving wonder to
how much of the granite surrounding us had eroded.
My friends continued a
stare-down at the ram that was posed for a perfect photo shot. Then
it continued on losing us in the wake of a magical enchantment. An
encounter with a child of nature feels like an alien encounter of a
third kind.
“What do you suppose this
means?” my friends asked.
“New beginnings,” I said.
For an awareness of a great
calm while the war continues is being felt. We read the markings on
the stone, a counting calendar, a possible harvest or a water mark
in what is now a desert, a woman honored and the four legged
guardian of time was indeed a timeless message.
I talk with my grandmothers
whose voices astound me with unfathomable heights. What is the
feminine wave? It is an energy current, a frequency independent of
outcome, a positive feeling but not from a consequence of
achievement or material gain. This positive feeling arises from
nature. This positive feeling exists because all of creation is
giving birth to it continually. Mother Nature is unconditional,
just like the positive feeling is unconditional. There is no
required state or condition other than surrender to her in order to
experience the feminine wave. The big horn sheep with spiraling
horns is a sure-footed reminder that the feminine wave is a
spiraling current and teaches us to let go of mental control and
emotions that want to dominate. Welcome the current which pushes
the fight for control and get out of the way of yourself and embrace
the opportunity to become awash in bliss.
~Carol Petersen, Rainbow
Medicine Blanket, © all rights reserved 6/2007
Manataka Native Slang
Dictionary
Apple -- Red on the
outside, white on the inside
Apruhan or Indian Devil -- Person who uses bad thoughts or magic
Big Warrior -- Someone
who takes his or her role as a warrior too seriously
Blood Aimster -- Member
of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
Brah -- Brother
Chebon -- Man. Usage: "Whassup
chebon?"
Chief -- Someone who
thinks he's chief but isn't. Used sarcastically
Chooch -- Immature male
who is acting stupid
Coconut -- Brown on the
outside, white on the inside
Commod -- An
abbreviation of "commodity"
Commodity cheese --
Government surplus food given to Indians
Cosin -- Related but
more distant than a cousin
Coyote -- Trickster
figure, an anti-hero
Cuz -- Familiar form of
Cousin
Dine -- Original Name of
the Navajo
Dream --Vision, often a
prophecy or communiqué to be deciphered
Elder - Title of respect
not merely of age, must be earned
Eskimo -- Inappropriate
name for Innuit, Innupiat and Yupik people
FBI -- Full-blooded
Indian
Forty-Nine (49) -- An
informal social celebration at an Indian gathering such as a powwow
Forty-Nine'in (49in') --
Partying at a 49
Frog Skins -- Money
Fry Bread Girl -- Indian
female who eats too much
Going Custer -- Similar
to "going postal"
Hola --Hello in the
Lakota language
Huprok -- Local Indian
of mixed inter-tribal blood
Imareala -- A BIA
card-carrying Native who brags about having a card and is rude to those
who don't
Indian Law 101 -- Indian
law in reality. Comes up in the context of a non-Indian lawyer who is
competent but has never been exposed to Indian weirdness and starts
prattling about the Constitution where it doesn't apply. Usage: "He was
talking about Marbury v. Madison, so I had to give him Indian Law 101."
Indian Taco -One
plate-meal made from commodity foods severed on fried dough
Indian Time -- Whenever,
signifying a disregard for Anglo-style punctuality
Lakota, Dakota, Nakota -
Original names of groups lumped together as the Sioux
Moccasin Telegraph --
Informal talk or gossip
NDN, ndn -- Indian, used
mostly among young and on the Internet
NGE -- Non-Government Enrolled. An Indian not officially a
member of a federally-recognized tribe
OSI -- Out of State
Indian (relocated from another area)
Pinafich (Karuk word) Coyote
-- Trickster figure, an anti-hero
Plastic --Fake, as in "a
fake medicine man/woman." Usage: "Don't waste your money on that
plastic shaman."
Powwow -- Big event, a
social gathering inter-tribal in nature
Red Nigger -- Someone
who's too Indian to suit a non-Indian. Usage: "When a blue-eyed Oglala
went into a bar with his brown eyed cousins, the bartender said, 'You
can stay but your red niggers have to go outside.'"
Regalia -- Part of dance
items including necklaces, dresses, beadwork, bustles etc
Rez -- Reservation
Rez Boots -- Moccasins
Rez Dog -- Indian who
hangs around the reservation
Rez Rocket --
Reservation car, usually in need of repairs
Rezzed out -- Done in
true Indian style. i.e.: "His NDN car is really rezzed out"
River Mail -- Similar to
the "moccasin telegraph", also a round about way to deliver things by
passing it around to friends and relatives heading "home"
Shaman -- Misnomer,
Indian peoples did not have Shamans
Shinob, Naabe -- An
Anishinaabe Indian
Skin-Indian -- Used
mostly among young
Slippery Eel -- Unsigned
gossip letter usually slamming politicians
Snag -- A partner for a
date or a one-night stand
Snaggin' -- Searching
for a snag
Stay Red -- "keep it
real," be true to your Indian self
Suits -- Government
agents or representatives
Tonto -- Sidekick,
lackey, Indian Uncle Tom
Treaty talk -- White
man's lies
Twink, Twinki, Twinkie
-- Non-Indian who believes in New Age mysticism
Urban -- Indian person
in a city, separated from their tribe, usually resulting from federal
relocation policies
U.S. History --
The story of the genocidal move west
Wannabe -- Non-Indian
who wants to be an Indian
Got anymore Indian slang words?
If so, send 'em our way. Thanks.
GRANDMOTHER'S SPEAK
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Magdala Rameriz
Maya Priestess |
Beautiful Sisters and Brothers
All Over the
World:
The
prophesy of the condor and the eagle shows the way of the next step of
evolution, the time where the two powerful energies becomes one.
The
female-male union of polarities, the south and north, mind and heart, must
learn how to walk together and create a path for the true human being come
back to life, to awake into a new reality within the self.
Many
ceremonies have been made to give birth to this encounter, Does human being
is evolve enough to embrace this forces within the self? As an awaken human
she-he has work from the inside to the outside and the outside to the inside
to uncover the true vibration within.
There
is a terrible fear sweeping across America. Since 9/11 the American people have
had to face their own vulnerability.
The
Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as
threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government
on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world's
most recognizable animals out of existence.
