Yesterday at Red Earth’s session at Culture Hub, we were gifted time and knowledge about the deeper meaning of regalia. Every feather, every tie, every braid — a story. A responsibility. A lesson you don’t learn on your own.
“Finally met an Early Indian…”
Joke at Myles’ expense, the early indian
They’ve been showing up early, preparing, listening, and holding knowledge for generations.
We laughed. We learned. We humbled ourselves.
Because the truth is:
Growth looks like showing up unsure, asking questions, and learning from those who carry more than you know. Bison storm through.
So if there’s a storm inside you — fear of not knowing enough, not being “ready,” or not being “Native enough” to ask — this is your reminder:
Go anyway. Ask anyway. Be scared... and still show up.
Mvto to the mentors, medicine holders, healers and teachers, and cultural carriers who make space for the rest of us wannabe millennial elders to learn.
#MYRealOklahoma #RedEarth #CultureHubOKC #LonnyStreet #UnderstandingRegalia #NativeDance #MentorshipMatters #AskAnyway #StormsGrowSeeds #IndianJokes #MvskokeHumor #FeathersAndFoundations
the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Friday May 16, 2025 is:
Tonalli: day
Trecena: 13-day period
Xihuitl: solar year
13 – Calli (house)
Yoaltecuhtli: Lord of the Night
Tlaloc
Xiuhpohualli: 365-day calendar
6 – Ochpaniztli (XI)
The significance of this day
Day Atl (Water) is governed by Xiuhtecuhtli, God of Fire, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Atl is a day for purification by subjecting oneself to the ordeal of conflict. It is a good day for battle, a bad day for rest. Water brings out the scorpion, who must sting its enemies or else sting itself. Atl is the day of the holy war, which is always a battle with one’s own enemies within.
The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Cipactli (Crocodile) is ruled by Tonacatecuhtli, Lord of Nurturance, the primordial god of creation and fertility. Cipactli is god of the land, the great earth monster, floating on the sea of stars. This is the first trecena of the sacred year. The 13 days of this trecena are governed by the primordial urge to create order out of chaos. The three means by which the Old Ones established order are still our most important treasures: speech, agriculture, and the family. The lineage of thought runs from seed to fruit to seed: these are good days to participate in the community; bad days for solitude.
Leave a Reply