Image Result for. Horse Mythology: Types of Mythical Horses. Maat. The earliest surviving records indicating Maat is the norm for nature and society, in this world and the next, were recorded during the Old Kingdom, the earliest substantial surviving examples being found in the Pyramid Texts of Unas (ca. 2375 BCE and 2345 BCE).[2] Later, as a goddess in other traditions of the Egyptian pantheon, where most goddesses were paired with a male aspect, her masculine counterpart was Thoth and their attributes are the same. After the rise of Ra they were depicted together in the Solar Barque. After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary role in Egyptian mythology dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld, Duat.[3] Her feather was the measure that determined whether the souls (considered to reside in the heart) of the departed would reach the paradise of afterlife successfully.
Maat as a principle[edit] Winged Maat Maat and the law[edit] Maat wearing feather of truth See also[edit] Pandoras box. Skin-walker. In some Native American legends, a skin-walker is a person with the supernatural ability to turn into any animal he or she desires. To be able to transform, legend sometimes requires that the skin-walker wears a pelt of the animal, though this is not always considered necessary. Similar lore can be found in cultures throughout the world and is often referred to as shapeshifting by anthropologists. [ edit ] Possibly the best documented skinwalker beliefs are those relating to the Navajo yee naaldlooshii (literally "with it, he goes on all fours" in the Navajo language ).
A yee naaldlooshii is one of several varieties of Navajo witch (specifically an ’ánt’įįhnii or practitioner of the Witchery Way, as opposed to a user of curse-objects ( ’adagąsh ) or a practitioner of Frenzy Way ( ’azhįtee )). The ’ánt’įįhnii are human beings who have gained supernatural power by breaking a cultural taboo . Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the face of a person. Witch (Navajo) There are a number of traditions and beliefs in Navajo culture relating to practices which are referred to as " witchcraft " in English. In the Navajo language , they are each referred to distinctly, and are regarded as separate, albeit related, phenomena.
The practices lumped together in the category 'witchcraft' are very similar, at least in their externals, to the rituals practiced on the 'good side' of Navajo tradition, the ceremonials or 'sings'. The difference, however, is that while the good sings are to heal or bring luck, the bad ones are intended to hurt and curse. Similarly, all kinds of witches are associated with transgression of taboos and societal standards, especially those relating to family and the dead. [ edit ] Types of Witches [ edit ] Witchery Way: ’áńt’įįzhį This is the most common type of witchcraft, centering around the Witchery or Corpse-poison Way— ’áńt’įįzhį . ’Ánt’įįhnii usually learn their art from a parent or grandparent, but sometimes from a spouse.
. [ edit ] What is the meaning of the ghost bead necklace created by the Navajos? A study of Navajo symbolism. Full text of "A study of Navajo symbolism" Google Image Result for. Google Image Result for.
Navajo map of the cosmos. Art: Information on Navajo Culture. The Navajo live in the Four Corners area of the American southwest. This is the junction of northeast Arizona, southeast Utah, northwest New Mexico, and southwest Colorado. (There is a marker at the point where one can stand and simultaneously be in four different states.) Marker at Four Corners (circa 1908)Facing Northwest from New Mexico According to Navajo legend, their land is enclosed by four sacred mountains and two sacred rivers. The four sacred mountains are: North -- Mt. The two sacred rivers bound the region at the north and south: North -- San Juan River (along southern Utah border). The existence of the Navajo as a people cannot be dated with any accuracy prior to A.D. 1500. The Athapaskans settled among ancestors of the Pueblo Peoples, commonly known as Anasazi, and had a relationship with them that was, until intervention by the United States, predatory, aggressive, and typically brutal.
General Stephen Watts Kearney Scorched earth policy authorized "Long Walk" to Fort Sumner. Cosmology. You may have seen it written that the architectural design of temples in general is intended to represent a scale model of the cosmos (universe or created world), and that a temple is a conceptual (symbolic) micro-cosmos where the floor of the temple represents the earth, and the cover embodies the sky etc. Or that every aspect of Solomon's Temple was made to represent some aspect of heaven or earth. Cicero refers to the earth's place in the universe as "that sphere in the middle of the temple" (illum globum, quem in hoc templo medium). John Mitchell suggests that the temple is not so much a model of the cosmos itself (meaning the real world) as it is a model of the national cosmology.
(cosmology =df. a conception of the cosmos). Above we see a representation of the Hindu cosmolgy where elephants on the back of a turtle support the world mountain surrounded by a cobra. There have been religious notions relating temples to the Creation for ever. Wat Arun - The Temple of Dawn Page 4a. Google Image Result for. Navajo Cosmology and World View.
The Navajo origin myth recounts their emergence from a series of underworlds onto the Earth Surface. Using a medicine bundle brought from the underworlds, in an all-night ceremony at the place of emergence, First Man, First Woman, and other Holy People set in place the "inner forms" of natural phenomena (earth, sky, the sacred mountains, plants, and animals), creating the present world. It was into this world that Changing Woman was born. She was impregnated by the sun and gave birth to twin sons, who killed various monsters that had been endangering the Holy People. Using the medicine bundle First Man had given her, Changing Woman created maize. The Navajo creation myth indicates that there is no dichotomy between the natural and supernatural in Navajo religion. Wind is a unitary phenomenon that is the source of all life, movement, and behavior.
Thus both natural phenomena and humans have inner forms or "in-lying ones" animated by wind. Navajo Sandpaintings: Mark Bahti, Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe: 9781933855288: Amazon.com. THE BIG MYTH.