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The Inuit made over a hundred ‘string games’ before
European contact which included star ‘maps’ depicting such
constellation as Orion and the Pleiades.
Other North American tribes, Ojibwa, Micmac, Cherokee,
Lakota, Navajo, Pawnee and Zuni ‘weaved’ this tradition
into their ‘string art’ and into their ‘star stories’.
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Inuit
Micmac(Mi’kmaq)
Ojibwa
Cherokee
Lakota
PawneeNavajo
Zuni
Maya
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This petroglyph was carved in Kejimkujik, Nova Scotia on
Mi’kmaq ancestral land. It depicts the story of ‘Mi’kmaq
Women who married Star Husbands’.
The story tells of two sisters who pointed out stars theywished to marry. To their surprise they woke up the nextmorning with new husbands and found themselves in theworld ‘above the sky’. Their husbands eventually returnedthem when they became upset, but gave them strictinstructions on ‘how to live’ in their world.
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Pleiades
Orion
Sirius
Gemini ?
MI’KMAQ Bedford Barrens Petroglyphs
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PLEIADES
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Pawnee ‘star cult’ creation story with a higher power and duality
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Pleiades
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Navajo symbol of the ‘Mask of the Black God.’
The 7 ‘white dots’ represent the Pleiades star cluster (Dilyehe), their most sacred constellation. It is depicted on the ‘left cheek’ of the Black God (night sky) ; and it is to the Navajo the microcosmic symbol of the ‘orderly’ universe ; as well as a seasonal indicator and time keeper.
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picture by:
GARY DAVIDwww.theorionzone.com
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Drawing by: John Major Jenkins www. Alignment2012.com
The Maya civilization reached it’s apex around 300 – 900 AD
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Bronze “Sky Disc” fromGermany dated 1600 BC
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Cave painting discovered in Spain dated c. 14,000 BC
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