ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pueblo Bonito, Bodhisattva, Cardinal Direction
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The sun wants to tell everyone about the medicine great gambler used to get up to the sky so he comes up with a plan. Starts talking about the sun"s half mortal son who is a great runner and lives at the foot of mt. Taylor with his mother, around 12 years old at time, they move to pueblo bonito and the mother starts leaving offerings of turqouise in a special place. The woman goes to other places and finds places for sacred offerings there does a lot of walking around and while this happens the boy becomes a young man. They go to shiprock, keep moving because people keep finding out he"s the son of the. Transform him into a maiden except the feet. All four of the holy beings there including sun and white bead woman and man of the. Mountain start to fight over the youth and who will dress him, chant.
