what do I know about lizards--their skin carries water...I like how they move. the Hopi have a lizard kachina that is a fighting Kachina but also brings sweethearts together. there is a long education to understanding the Hopi Kachinas as they are the "peaceful people or peaceful "little ones." They have 350 Kachinas. Lizard Kachinas are presented to young girls in ceremony to help them with becoming nurturing mothers. here is a Cahuilla legend on the blue lizard: There was a great wailing among the tribes of the Cahuilla. The children were sick; they were dying, and none of the charms known to the medicine men of the tribe seemed to have any effect. The tribes prayed to the Great Spirit and received an answer. There was a remedy, but in all the tents of Heaven there was no messenger to send to the Cahuilla. After a length of time, the Great Spirit tore a strip of blue sky from the heavens and rolled it into a blue lizard – and then the Great Spirit gave the lizard magic to take to the Cahuilla. The blue lizard traveled on a sunbeam to the Earth and the children of the Cahuilla tribe were healed. But the sunbeams were always traveling to the Earth, not from it back to the Great Spirit, so there was no way for the blue lizard to get back to his home in Heaven. In desperation the homesick blue lizard climbed upward on San Jacinto mountain as high as he could get toward his home. There the blue lizard has remained to this day, sacred to the Cahuilla. He is never found below two or three thousand feet and more often above five thousand, where he is still waiting for an opportunity to return to his home. From that time the Cahuilla tribe considered the upper portion of the San Jacinto mountain to be the sacred abode of spirits.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:43:02 +0000
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