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The Navajos belief is that their Creator placed them on the land between the following 4 mountains representing the 4 cardinal directions:
Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini' - Dawn or White Shell Mountain)
Sacred Mountain of the East
near Alamosa in San Luis Valley, Colorado
Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil - Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain)
Sacred Mountain of the South
north of Laguna, New Mexico
San Francisco Peaks (Doko'oosliid - Abalone Shell Mountain)
Sacred Mountain of the West
near Flagstaff, Arizona
Mount Hesperus Dibé Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) - Obsidian Mountain
Sacred Mountain of the North
La Plata Mountains, Colorado
The following inner mountains within the borders formed by the 4 sacred mountains are also held as sacred because of their importance in Navajo mythology:
Huerfano Mesa
Dzil Na'oodilii - Holy People (Navajo Deities) Encircling Mountain
Sacred Mountain of the Center
60 miles southeast of Bloomfield, New Mexico. This is where Changing Woman received her puberty, gave birth to her warrior twins, and lived in the first hogan. It is considered to be the "lungs" of Navajo country.
Governador Knob (Ch'oolii)
Sacred Mountain East of Center
in Old Navajoland (Dinetah), near and southeast of the Navajo Dam. This is where Changing Woman was found. It is considered to be the "heart" of Navajo country.
Navajo Mountain
Naatsis'áán - Head of the Earth
southeast Utah
These mountains represent the major parts of the traditional Navajo religious beliefs, helping them to live in harmony with both nature and their Creator.
In the Blessingway, we can see numerous references to such sacred places that are still identifiable today: Blanca Peak, Now Gobernador Knob, gazing upon one another, appear.
Now Gobernador Knob, Blanca peak, regularly speaking to one another by means of rock
crystal rainbow, appear,
Long life appears, happiness appears, that one appears holaghi.
Mount Taylor, now Yucca Mountain, gazing upon one another, appear.
Now Yucca Mountain, Mount Taylor, regularly speaking to one another by means of rock
crystal rainbow, appear,
Long life appears, happiness appears, that one appears holaghi.
San Francisco Peak, Huerfano Mountain, gazing upon one another, appear.
Now Huerfano Mountain, now San Francisco Peak, regularly speaking to one another by
means of rock crystal rainbow, appear,
Long life appears, happiness appears, that one appears holaghi.
Below are the 4 directional sacred mountains and the 3 inner sacred mountains.
Mount Blanca, near the town of Alamosa, in southern Colorado. This is known to the Navajo as the Sacred Mountain of the East.
Mount Blanca, the tallest mountain in the Sangre de Cristos, in San Luis Valley, in southern Colorado, rises 14,317 feet at the center of a towering trio.
Mount Taylor, New Mexico. This is known to the Navajo as the Sacred Mountain of the South.
San Francisco Peak, Arizona. This is known to the Navajo as the Sacred Mountain of the West.
Another picture of San Francisco Peak.
Mount Hesperus, La Plata Mountains, Colorado. This is known to the Navajo as the Sacred Mountain of the North.
Dzil Ná'oodilii (Holy People (Navajo Deities) Encircling Mountain), in northwest New Mexico is about 50 miles west of Gobernador Knob. This is the location where Navajo mythology says that the first hogan was built, where the 2nd ceremony was performed on earth after Changing Woman had her first and second menstral periods of flow, where the hogan was consecrated with the Leaders' House Songs (12 of them with the help of Coyote), and where her warrior twins would leave to kill (cleanse the earth of) the Monsters. Dzil Ná'oodilii is located in a very sparsely populated and isolated location about 60 miles from the nearest towns of Bloomfield to the west and Cuba to the east. It also lies about 60 miles north of Chaco Canyon National Park and about 60 miles south-east of Mesa Verde National Park. This mesa is considered to be the lungs of Navajo country, and its shape is identified with the perpendicular sides and round roof of the 6 or 8 sided hogan. Dzil Ná'oodilii is also the location where mom Lillie Todychini, and her son, Harrison Lapahie Jr. were born.
After Changing Woman's initiation to womanhood was complete, the form of the Navajo girls' ceremony was established at Dzil Ná'oodilii for all time. Traditional Navajo families hold this same ceremonial celebration for a girl's 1st and 2nd menses today. The usual practice is to consecrate the hogan with the Leaders' hogan songs for the 1st, and Talking God's hogan songs for the 2nd. There is a story that Coyote, who had attended the puberty ceremony uninvited, objected to Talking God's plan to sing only 4 house songs. Coyote said, "Now there on the east side Talking God had set 12 white tail-feathers in a row, at the south side he set 12 turquoise tail-feathers, at the west side he had set 12 abalone shell tail-feather figures, at the north side he had set 12 jet tail-feathers figures in a row." Coyote pointed out that the inner forms of the 4 sacred mountains of the 4 cardinal directions also had the same number of tail feathers and said that these powerful deities already knew that there should likewise be 12 songs. So it was decided that there should be 12 songs in Talking God's set of house songs. Dzil Ná'oodilii is shown dark above because of the many clouds above it at the time the photograph was taken. The photo was taken about 20 miles from Dzil Ná'oodilii.
"Dzil Ná'oodilii" is also referred to as "El Huerfano" (Spanish) or Huerfano Mountain (English). On documents that as
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What follows is both a compendium of my observations, and a do-it-your-self field guide for those who wish discover the true extent of the American covert underground infrastructure.
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5.
The Indians' Lost Book of God
They [the American Indians] have two flat sticks about one foot long, tied together, on which are several characters, which they say, the Great Father gave to their prophet, and mean as much as a large book.
—W. W. Phelps,1 an early Mormon apologist
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The "Center of the World" historic site/monument honors the location of the Cherokee Indian assembly ground. It was there that the Cherokees met to hold their tribal council. The area was inhabited by Native Americans until a treaty with the Cherokee Indians was signed.
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The Hopi Indians and their ancient shamans say "signs" willThe Hopi Indians and their ancient shamans say "signs" will
foretell the time when the fifth world, a new age, will
begin. Many believe we now stand on the threshold of
changing events which will bring about the end of one world
period and the beginning of another. Ancient prophecies
state that when stone tablets are returned to the center of
the world the new age will begin. There are varied
interpretations in many different cultures regarding what
"the center of the world" means and where it is.
Northeast Georgia was an assembly ground for the great
Cherokee Indian Nation before the white man's greed for gold
brought about the Trail of Tears. Cherokee Indian trails
radiated in all directions from what is now Elberton,
Georgia, and the Cherokee Indians held their Councils, their
dances and their worship services of the Great Spirit there.
They called the area Al-yeh-li-A-lo-Hee, the Center of the
World.