Monsters

Monsters

I talked about hózhó in a previous post https://www.raypalmerphotography.com/portfolio/G0000MKPwo8mrDM8/I0000kNNAwjjrQmM, as a state of grace between each other, as well as the universe we know. Hózhó was disrupted in part of the Diné creation story. In abbreviated form, First Man and First Woman separated, the balance between the sexes was destroyed, and all that harmony (hózhó) of the Fourth World collapsed as they tried to regain apart what was meant to attain together. After four years, a great flood forced all of them out of the Fourth World to emerge into this, the Fifth World. But the women were pregnant from unnatural means during the great separation, and inhuman monsters began to be born. Ashamed of these malformed progeny, the People buried them and moved on exploring their new world. Together again, they rebuilt the four sacred mountain boundaries, and restored beauty and balance to the land. They became fruitful and multiplied over generations, but as time went on, the evil matured and began hunting them to death, until there were but 6 left, hiding in fear. One day, First Man found a baby girl, who they named Changing Woman. After four days she grew into womanhood, was impregnated by the Sun and Waterfall, and bore twins: Monster Slayer and Born For Water. The boys ran way from home to find who their father was, into the world of chaos and monsters. They took refuge with Spider Woman who taught them supernatural powers and revealed their father, the Sun. They went to the Sun’s house, were tested by their father, and proving themselves, got a bow of thunder with arrows of lightning, and went out to kill the monsters. At this great battleground, legend has it, a slayed monster was turned to stone and buried in the Earth, Merrick Butte the head and the Mittens its hands. On a windless morning, the Sun was coming to observe his sons’ work, as I waited in the World, content at that time on my own axis. I look at the scene,

Add to Lightbox Download

Filename: Monsters.jpg
Image Size: 2048x1374 / 2.1MB; Monument Valley Arizona AZ Mittens Merrick Butte desert scrub land hot arid sunrise monsters Monster Slayer Diné hóxhó balance
Contained in galleries: West

Monsters<br />
<br />
I talked about hózhó in a previous post https://www.raypalmerphotography.com/portfolio/G0000MKPwo8mrDM8/I0000kNNAwjjrQmM, as a state of grace between each other, as well as the universe we know. Hózhó was disrupted in part of the Diné creation story. In abbreviated form, First Man and First Woman separated, the balance between the sexes was destroyed, and all that harmony (hózhó) of the Fourth World collapsed as they tried to regain apart what was meant to attain together. After four years, a great flood forced all of them out of the Fourth World to emerge into this, the Fifth World. But the women were pregnant from unnatural means during the great separation, and inhuman monsters began to be born. Ashamed of these malformed progeny, the People buried them and moved on exploring their new world. Together again, they rebuilt the four sacred mountain boundaries, and restored beauty and balance to the land. They became fruitful and multiplied over generations, but as time went on, the evil matured and began hunting them to death, until there were but 6 left, hiding in fear. One day, First Man found a baby girl, who they named Changing Woman. After four days she grew into womanhood, was impregnated by the Sun and Waterfall, and bore twins: Monster Slayer and Born For Water. The boys ran way from home to find who their father was, into the world of chaos and monsters. They took refuge with Spider Woman who taught them supernatural powers and revealed their father, the Sun. They went to the Sun’s house, were tested by their father, and proving themselves, got a bow of thunder with arrows of lightning, and went out to kill the monsters. At this great battleground, legend has it, a slayed monster was turned to stone and buried in the Earth, Merrick Butte the head and the Mittens its hands. On a windless morning, the Sun was coming to observe his sons’ work, as I waited in the World, content at that time on my own axis. I look at the scene,