Native Renewal
What of our homelands caught your eye lately? Rustling leaves blowing down the street, pecans knocking roofs and siding from chattering fat squirrels?¿
We were in recent contact with COSWA, any neighbours going through water and soil testing? I’d be willing to host newly added Deep Fork Trail research- what exactly is going into our neighbourhood waterways. If you care about water, local flora & fauna and feeling isolated or confused about getting started in your neighbourhood- Send a message letting us know how you’d like to be involved !
Thanks DeeAnn, great info!
MVSKOKE Word of the Day: ENKA (en-kah) – interj. yes; okay; you’re welcome. Ex. ENKA (en-kah). (Okay.)
The significance of this day
Day Tecpatl (Stone Knife, known as Etznab in Maya) is governed by Chalchihuihtotolin, the Jewelled Fowl, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Tecpatl is a day of grave ordeals, a day of trials and tribulations. It is a good day to test one’s character, a bad day to rest on one’s past accomplishments or reputation. Tecpatl warns that the mind, the spirit, must be sharpened like the glass blade which cuts to the marrow of truth
The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Atl (Water) is ruled by Chalchihuihtotolin. These are 13 days of instability and unexpected events, of accidents and coincidences: these are good days to gamble a little on a long-shot; bad days to gamble a lot on a sure thing. Every day rollercoasters between all-good and all-bad, between rapture and terror. This trecena advises the priest-warrior to perfect the art of shapeshifting: only by mimicking the nature of water do we become an agent of change rather than a target of it. The purified heart casts no reflection in the smoking mirror.
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