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Originally posted by Oneshot1
Thanks for the insight DaddyBare... The problem with the native American stories is they are all verbal and must be taken with a grain of salt,
Originally posted by DaddyBare
In both mine and another post here we point out the "The Blue Star Dancer" part of Hopi legend. To be sure when that phrase was written it was as crystal clear to them as if I said "Computer hacker" to you...would your grand father know the meaning of computer hacker? your great grand father? Our combined frame of reference gives hacker meaning...this meaning problem works both ways that's why we use petroglyphs as memory joggers...
me for that phrase to have any meaning too???
DB, can you please spell for us in your Native language the original name of the Blue Star Dancer as spoken in your native tongue?
A petroglyph perhaps?
Originally posted by Oneshot1
I am Native American. I have sat at elders feet and listened to the stories. The "stories" of this type are fakes and frauds, told by people who have an agenda, to get paid and look "good".
Originally posted by Oneshot1
DaddyBare, I'm not speaking on the traditional stories which use facts and some made up "facts" to make the point of the story. I'm questioning the motives of the folk's who make these "stories" up and call them "old". I have heard of the Geronimo skull also, is it true??? No idea, but if it is I'm sure that someone over the years would have caused a stink over it and caused bad press and return of said bones/relics.
Originally posted by DaddyBare the ones I grew up hearing, there are seven chosen tribes and they guard seven gates if you will. the gates lead to the underworld . not hell but the route from the old world and maybe a route to the next...if that story were to come to pass all I can say is I hope I'm long dead. I'm too old now to fight what are said to be terrible creatures then settle on a new world with nothing but what's on our backs.
Originally posted by DaddyBare
...see when the Spanish first met the Mayans they brought whit them their priest's. the first thing they did was try to convert the natives...they held a sword over their heads and asked do you believe in our god? if you said yes they let you go in no? off came your head...so Mayans, the survivors anyway quickly converted and the church went about burning all the texts, all but three...What little we do know about them comes from those three texts and its not much...