The Inuit made over a hundred ‘string games’ before European contact which included star ‘maps’ depicting such constellation as Orion and the Pleiades.

The Inuit made over a hundred ‘string games’ before

European contact which included star ‘maps’ depicting such

constellation as Orion and the Pleiades.

Other North American tribes, Ojibwa, Micmac, Cherokee,

Lakota, Navajo, Pawnee and Zuni ‘weaved’ this tradition

into their ‘string art’ and into their ‘star stories’.

Inuit

Micmac(Mi’kmaq)

Ojibwa

Cherokee

Lakota

PawneeNavajo

Zuni

Maya

This petroglyph was carved in Kejimkujik, Nova Scotia on

Mi’kmaq ancestral land. It depicts the story of ‘Mi’kmaq

Women who married Star Husbands’.

The story tells of two sisters who pointed out stars theywished to marry. To their surprise they woke up the nextmorning with new husbands and found themselves in theworld ‘above the sky’. Their husbands eventually returnedthem when they became upset, but gave them strictinstructions on ‘how to live’ in their world.

Pleiades

Orion

Sirius

Gemini ?

MI’KMAQ Bedford Barrens Petroglyphs

1 2 3 4 5 6 71-7

2

3

45

6

7

5

12

34

6

rattle

7

snake headtail

PLEIADES

12

34

5

67

PLEIADES

Pawnee ‘star cult’ creation story with a higher power and duality

Pleiades

Navajo symbol of the ‘Mask of the Black God.’

The 7 ‘white dots’ represent the Pleiades star cluster (Dilyehe), their most sacred constellation. It is depicted on the ‘left cheek’ of the Black God (night sky) ; and it is to the Navajo the microcosmic symbol of the ‘orderly’ universe ; as well as a seasonal indicator and time keeper.

picture by:

GARY DAVIDwww.theorionzone.com

Drawing by: John Major Jenkins www. Alignment2012.com

The Maya civilization reached it’s apex around 300 – 900 AD

Bronze “Sky Disc” fromGermany dated 1600 BC

Cave painting discovered in Spain dated c. 14,000 BC