Chokma is a Chickasaw word meaning 'good'. I am a student of the Buddhadharma living in a small community in middle Tennessee. The land we occupy was ceded by the Chickasaw tribe in 1816.

6th January 2010

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Through Sisnaajini in the east they ran a bolt of lightning to fasten it to the firmament. Then they decorated it with white shells. They decorated it with white lightning. They decorated it with white corn. They decorated it with the dark clouds that produce the harsh and sudden male rain.On the summit of Sisnaajini in the east they placed a bowl of shells. In that bowl they placed two eggs belonging to Hasbidi the Gray Dove’, for they wanted feathers on the mountain. They then covered those eggs with a sacred buckskin so that they would hatch. Which explains why there are so many wild pigeons on that mountain to this day.All that they had placed on Sisnaajini in the east they now covered with a sheet of daylight. And from small stone images which they had carried with them from the world below they fashioned Tse’ghadi’nidinii ashkii the Rock Crystal Boy and Tse’ghadi’nidinii at’e’e’d the Rock Crystal Girl. These two they stationed there to dwell forever as the male god and as the female god of Sisnaajini, or Sierra Blanca Peak as it would be called today in the language that Bilagaana the White Man speaks. ~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrod photo: Blanca Peak, Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado

Through Sisnaajini in the east they ran a bolt of lightning to fasten it to the firmament. Then they decorated it with white shells. They decorated it with white lightning. They decorated it with white corn. They decorated it with the dark clouds that produce the harsh and sudden male rain.

On the summit of Sisnaajini in the east they placed a bowl of shells. In that bowl they placed two eggs belonging to Hasbidi the Gray Dove’, for they wanted feathers on the mountain. They then covered those eggs with a sacred buckskin so that they would hatch. Which explains why there are so many wild pigeons on that mountain to this day.

All that they had placed on Sisnaajini in the east they now covered with a sheet of daylight. And from small stone images which they had carried with them from the world below they fashioned Tse’ghadi’nidinii ashkii the Rock Crystal Boy and Tse’ghadi’nidinii at’e’e’d the Rock Crystal Girl. These two they stationed there to dwell forever as the male god and as the female god of Sisnaajini, or Sierra Blanca Peak as it would be called today in the language that Bilagaana the White Man speaks.

~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrod

photo: Blanca Peak, Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado

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