A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the
spiritual world of the Navajo.
- Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of
harmony and balance in the world.
- Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for
generations.
- Includes meditations following each story or poem.
Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of
dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine
(literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation
myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is
created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea
that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author
Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations
that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of
life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the
Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live,
and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by
stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage,
homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow
each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony
and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important
point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand
at the moment.
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