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.

7th January 2010

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They used a sunbeam to fasten Dook’o’oosliid in the west to the firmament. Then they decorated it with haliotis shell. They decorated it with a variety of animals. It too they decorated it with the black clouds that produce the harsh, sudden male rain.On the top of Dook’o’oosliid in the west they placed a large bowl of haliotis shell. Into that bowl they placed two eggs of Tsidiiltsooi the Yellow Warbler, for they also wanted plenty of feathers on this mountain. Then they covered those eggs with a sacred buckskin to be sure that they would hatch. Which explains why so many yellow warblers live on that mountain to this day.All that they had placed on Dook’o’oosliid in the west they covered with a yellow cloud. And from material which they had obtained before they left the world below they fashioned Naadalgah ashkii the White Corn Boy and Naada’ltsoii at’e’e’d the Yellow Corn Girl. These two they stationed to dwell there forever as the male god and as the female god of Dook’o’oosliid, or San Francisco Peak as it would now be called in the language that the White Man speaks.~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrodphoto: Mt. Humphries, Kachina Peaks Wilderness, AZ

They used a sunbeam to fasten Dook’o’oosliid in the west to the firmament. Then they decorated it with haliotis shell. They decorated it with a variety of animals. It too they decorated it with the black clouds that produce the harsh, sudden male rain.

On the top of Dook’o’oosliid in the west they placed a large bowl of haliotis shell. Into that bowl they placed two eggs of Tsidiiltsooi the Yellow Warbler, for they also wanted plenty of feathers on this mountain. Then they covered those eggs with a sacred buckskin to be sure that they would hatch. Which explains why so many yellow warblers live on that mountain to this day.

All that they had placed on Dook’o’oosliid in the west they covered with a yellow cloud. And from material which they had obtained before they left the world below they fashioned Naadalgah ashkii the White Corn Boy and Naada’ltsoii at’e’e’d the Yellow Corn Girl. These two they stationed to dwell there forever as the male god and as the female god of Dook’o’oosliid, or San Francisco Peak as it would now be called in the language that the White Man speaks.


~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrod
photo: Mt. Humphries, Kachina Peaks Wilderness, AZ

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