Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Saturday, March 05, 2005
The Hummingbird Part 3
Hopi Legend: In a time of famine, a young girl and boy were left alone while their parents searched for food. The boy made a toy hummingbird, the girl threw it into the air, and it came to life. Each day the hummingbird provided for the children by bringing them an ear of corn. Soon the hummingbird flew to the center of the earth where it pleaded with the god of fertility to restore the land. The rains came and green plants grew and then the children’s parents returned.
Friday, March 04, 2005
The Hummingbird Part 2
Hopi and Zuni Legends: Hummingbirds intervened on behalf of humans, convincing the gods to bring rain. Because of this people from those tribes paint hummingbirds on their water jars.
Pima Legend: A hummingbird acted like Noah’s dove in the Bible story of The Flood, by bringing back a flower as proof the great flood was subsiding.
Pima Legend: A hummingbird acted like Noah’s dove in the Bible story of The Flood, by bringing back a flower as proof the great flood was subsiding.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
The Hummingbird Part 1
Only in the Western Hemisphere do hummingbirds exist.
Mayan Legend has it the hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise trying to court a beautiful woman who is the moon. Mojave Legend tells of a primordial time when people lived in an underground world (similar to Plato's Analogy of the Cave). They sent a hummingbird up to look for light. Following a twisted path, the hummingbird found an upper world of light and introduced the people to a whole new world.
Navajo Legend: A hummingbird was sent up to see what lay above the blue sky. It turns out to be absolutely nothing.
Cherokee Legend: A medicine man turned himself into a hummingbird to retrieve lost plants of medicinal value.
Mayan Legend has it the hummingbird is actually the sun in disguise trying to court a beautiful woman who is the moon. Mojave Legend tells of a primordial time when people lived in an underground world (similar to Plato's Analogy of the Cave). They sent a hummingbird up to look for light. Following a twisted path, the hummingbird found an upper world of light and introduced the people to a whole new world.
Navajo Legend: A hummingbird was sent up to see what lay above the blue sky. It turns out to be absolutely nothing.
Cherokee Legend: A medicine man turned himself into a hummingbird to retrieve lost plants of medicinal value.
Sample excerpt from Mustang Fever
“Ghost Clouds and Wild Mustangs.” Stephen B. Gladish.
Synopsis of sample fiction chapter, “Ghost Clouds and Wild Mustangs,”
written during Air Force underground nuclear testing duty in Nevada in 1962.
It is a stand alone story, but excerpted from the book, Mustang Fever: Saving Wild Mustangs on the Nevada Test Site.
Synopsis of sample fiction chapter, “Ghost Clouds and Wild Mustangs,”
written during Air Force underground nuclear testing duty in Nevada in 1962.
It is a stand alone story, but excerpted from the book, Mustang Fever: Saving Wild Mustangs on the Nevada Test Site.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Totem Animals
Do you have a totem animal?
An animal or bird may mysteriously come into your life and consciousness. The image of that totem animal becomes associated with your sense of who you are and from whom your values may have come. Totem animals with powerful influences include the wolf, the eagle, the raven, the bear, the coyote, the jaguar, and the hummingbird.
An animal or bird may mysteriously come into your life and consciousness. The image of that totem animal becomes associated with your sense of who you are and from whom your values may have come. Totem animals with powerful influences include the wolf, the eagle, the raven, the bear, the coyote, the jaguar, and the hummingbird.
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