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Subject : Hopi Proverb:
Date/Time : 8/9/2012 9:24:22 AM
The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
Subject : Hopi Birds Story
Date/Time : 8/9/2012 9:24:02 AM
Why Birds Live in Our Hopi Villages.
The Hano people lived on a high, flat mesa at the top of the cliff. Birds flew over to the Hano village looking for anything they could find to eat in the trash and ashes. They would search for food and then fly back to a hill north of the village where they lived.
One day the bird chief went to the village chief to talk about food.
The two chiefs smoked together the way chiefs do.
"Look," the bird chief said, "we have to come all the way over here to find food. It's a long way to come."
The Hano chief told the bird chief, "Go back and tell the birds they are welcome to come and live right here with us. There is food enough for the birds and the Hanos both."
That is why you see so many birds in our villages today. They live so close they understand our language.
Subject : Arapaho Proverb
Date/Time : 8/8/2012 7:49:32 AM
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Subject : The Arapaho story of Creation
Date/Time : 8/8/2012 7:49:01 AM
There was a deluge, nothing but water. A man was walking around on the water for four day and four nights, carrying a Flat Pipe. He wondered what he could do to protect it. For a total of six days he walked around with the Pipe, weeping and fasting.
On the morning of the seventh day, he decided that there needed to be earth for the Pipe to rest on. So he called to the four directions (northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest) for people to come and help find land. Then he called forth seven cottonwood trees (though there was still no dry land), and then called forth creatures of the air and of the sea.
He asked if anyone knew where land was. The Turtle said that it was at the bottom of the ocean. So the Man asked the animals if they could dive down and find it. A series of creatures dives for the land. First: The Grebe; Second: two waterfowls; Third: three waterfowls, including the Kingfisher; Fourth: Otter, Beaver, Packed Bird (coot), and Garter snake; Fifth: black snake, two kinds of ducks, goose, and crane; Sixth: all the creatures dive. But each time, they fail.
Then, the seventh dive is made by Turtle in the company of the Man. Before the Man dives, he ritually moves the Flat Pipe four times, then touches it to his body a fifth time. It turns into a Red-headed Duck and it accompanies him on the dive along with the Turtle. Both the Duck and the Turtle succeed in bringing up a sod of earth for the Man (Arapaho).
The Man then dried the earth, then cast it in four directions (southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast) and created the Earth.
Subject : A Cow Creek Legend
Date/Time : 8/7/2012 9:26:06 AM
The Mountain with A Hole in the Top - http://www.cowcreek.com/index.p hp/the-mountain-with-a-hole-on- top
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