Our Living Ancestral Songline Landscape, of All Mind, All Time ...
Carrizo Plain:
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/carrizo/html/thumbs.htm
Sapaksi, House of the Sun:
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1qd28483
Painted Cave, Chumash Astronomy Observatory
http://thedigitalstory.com/2009/03/compact_camera_to_th.html
Lizard Cave, San Emigdio
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/958478hg
Tierra Incognita: Rock Art, Landscape Biography, and Archaeological Blind Spots
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/scitech/research/rae2008/staff_profiles/files/ROBINSON-tierra_incognita.pdf
Chumash Pictographs from the Topa Topas
http://www.bsahighadventure.org/indian_lore/pictographs/pictographs.html
The Valley of the Matilija, SiTopTopa, Auwhay, Sisa ...
la arbolada ojai'la, las figuras sagradas ...
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The Sun/Star/Dhri Wheel!
Comment #1 Posted by: crow | January 7, 2010 08:24 AM
sandstone song
Comment #2 Posted by: kahus | January 7, 2010 10:42 AM
Come on. This looks like it might be related to the breakin at Ojai Creates. No gang signs, at least.
Comment #3 Posted by: Johnny Chingas | January 7, 2010 06:56 PM
don't know if Crow or Kahus were directly involved ...
but clearly the work of some members the 'Antap Cult, or perhaps the previous culture's Shujuwatsheshi or Mu'alsaljewe clans ...
The Shamanic Tradition in Chumash Rock Art
Comment #4 Posted by: mt | January 8, 2010 12:01 AM
Among the Chukchansi the animal totems associated with the Nutuwic moiety are: Coyote, Turkey Vulture, Falcon, and Quail. With the Toxelyuwic moiety the following totems are identified: Bear, Eagle, Raven, Crow, Jay, and Jackrabbit. The Gashowu classify Coyote, Turkey Vulture, and Hawk as connected with the Nutuwuts moiety. With the Toxelyuwic moiety the following animals are connected: Eagle, Wildcat, and Fox. Among the Tachi the largest list of moiety totems was obtained. For the Nutuwuts moiety the animals are Coyote, Prairie Falcon, Ground Owl, Great Horned Owl, Skunk, Seal, and several other species of Hawk and Owl. The animals of the Toxelyuwic moiety are Eagle, Crow, Roadrunner, Killdeer, Fishhawk, Raven, Antelope, and Beaver!
Comment #5 Posted by: Roadrunner | January 8, 2010 10:00 AM
Roadrunner: please properly cite your quotation.
http://www.archive.org/stream/dichotomoussocia00giffrich/dichotomoussocia00giffrich_djvu.txt Accessed on ?
From Gifford, 1916: 294 University of California Publications in Am. Arch, and Ethn. [Vol. 11]
Fascinating informative study from a well-known California anthroploigist!
Comment #6 Posted by: judy k | January 11, 2010 01:28 PM
blessings, Judy K, and Roadrunner!
I'm looking for online sources picturing and describing the Stellar Deity Skyscape of the Chumash ... have found many journal articles in the Ventura Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History libraries ... but little extensive sources online yet ... here are some images of the (18 foot long I think) Chumash Mural at Burro Flats ... I am told there is a full-scale mural replica of it painted inside the Simi Public Library ...
Burro Flats Chumash Rock Art
this site doesn't provide a textual description of the pictograph totems and deities, nor their Chumash names and the stars and constellations they represent, nor the song/stories that are told which provide the journey/connection of each to another ... literally a Stone (and Stone Age) Mural Cinema-Scape, Cinema-Scope, predecessor to Hollywood's Cine('Cal')-Vision ....
Comment #7 Posted by: mt | January 11, 2010 06:52 PM
reappearance of my cousin, SwordFish:
http://www.landscapeartdesign.com/node/142
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/nov/05/within-syuxtun-story-circle
Comment #8 Posted by: Roadrunner | January 11, 2010 07:34 PM
Thank you, MT, for deepening our connection to the cosmos!
Will look at everything more when I'm at leisure...
Comment #9 Posted by: Suza | January 12, 2010 06:29 AM
she, mother cosmos, has gentled us, Suza-One,
and Crow and Mother Bear, and Judy K, and Roadrunner and Swordfish and all our Matilija-Ojai Valley relations are singing her return.
look at that Chumash Cosmos Spirit wheel being completed in Santa Barbara!
Comment #10 Posted by: mt | January 12, 2010 11:16 AM
~Swordfish~ was legendary for driving whales onto the beach to provide food for the people during the winter ...
Chumash Spirit, Mind and Body
Comment #11 Posted by: elye’wun (pronounced ghaylyaykwune) | January 13, 2010 04:24 PM