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.

8th January 2010

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They fastened Dibe’nitsaa in the north to the firmament with a rainbow. Then they adorned that mountain with black beads. They adorned it with many different kinds of plants. They adorned it with many different animals. And it too they adorned with the gray mist that brings the slow, gentle female rain. On the highest point of Dibe’nitsaa in the north they placed a large bowl of black beads. Into that bowl they placed two eggs of ch’agii the Blackbird, for they believed that there should also be feathers up there. Which explains why so many blackbirds fly around on that mountain to this very day. All that they had placed on Dibe’nitsaa in the north they covered with a blanket of darkness. And from a bundle of things that they had gathered while they were living in the world below they fashioned Ta’didiin ashkii’, the Pollen Boy and Nahachagii at’e’e’d the Grasshopper Girl. These two they stationed to dwell there forever as the male god and as the female god of Dibe’nitsaa, or the Place of Big Mountain Sheep as it would today be called in the language spoken by Bilagaana the White Man.~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrodphoto: Mt. Hesperus, La Platas Range, CO

They fastened Dibe’nitsaa in the north to the firmament with a rainbow. Then they adorned that mountain with black beads.

They adorned it with many different kinds of plants. They adorned it with many different animals. And it too they adorned with the gray mist that brings the slow, gentle female rain.

On the highest point of Dibe’nitsaa in the north they placed a large bowl of black beads. Into that bowl they placed two eggs of ch’agii the Blackbird, for they believed that there should also be feathers up there. Which explains why so many blackbirds fly around on that mountain to this very day.

All that they had placed on Dibe’nitsaa in the north they covered with a blanket of darkness. And from a bundle of things that they had gathered while they were living in the world below they fashioned Ta’didiin ashkii’, the Pollen Boy and Nahachagii at’e’e’d the Grasshopper Girl. These two they stationed to dwell there forever as the male god and as the female god of Dibe’nitsaa, or the Place of Big Mountain Sheep as it would today be called in the language spoken by Bilagaana the White Man.

~ Dine Bahane, The Navajo Creation Story; 1984, Paul G. Zolbrod
photo: Mt. Hesperus, La Platas Range, CO

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