| Paul G. Zolbrod, PhD
That Which Surrounds Us Is of Us: Living With Myth During a Navajo Sunrise
Witnessing dawn from the remote Crownpoint, NM campus building of a tribal college helps demonstrate that clocks and calendars do not really tell time or display environmental cohesiveness. It is the sun that does so,
mythology. Among other things, that narrative cycle tells how Jóhonaa'éí the Sun and Asdáán nádleehé the Earth Mother agree to align his daily journey with her ongoing seasonal change. Watching the sun rise out of t
reminder that the entire cosmos is in effect a single organism wherein a malfunction of any one of its parts disrupts the whole. That reality lives not only in Navajo creation mythology but in some of the world's great litera
celestial movement is lost, especially now that technology displaced first-hand observation of the Connie Buffalo and Mark Gokee
Ojibway Prophecy: Ancient Guidance for Critical Timessun's daily arrival.
A newcomer to the Pacifica Community, Paul G. Zolbrod began teaching Native American Mythology there last fall. He is the author of Diné bahane': The Navajo Creation Story, among other books, including a forthcom
English at Allegheny College, where he taught for thirty years, he is now Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the Navajo Nation's Diné College. |