Star Dust
The Navajo Tradition
The last post on Questioning the Narrative was intended to set the stage for an avalanche of iconoclasm. Just as the history we were taught left out thousands of important details, not to mention that it is generally written by the victors of the spoils of conquest, the curriculum on astronomy leaves much to be desired. I have spent almost a decade in a rabbit hole trying to sort out what to believe about the Universe. Besides the dependence of astrology on astronomical observations, there are countless theories about astrobiology as well as indigenous origin stories. This Navajo film is very simple, but a few details took me by surprise.
Ceanne DeRohan said in one of her many books that when we have all the origin myths and histories from all the ethnic groups on Earth, we will finally know the true history of our Planet. I am citing from memory so I apologize for any liberties taken with the reference to her work.
In the West, it is clear that we have lost touch with our roots, but finding them can be very rewarding.
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An interesting observation is coming back from the few fortunate humans who have been taken aboard starships for flights in our near galaxy. The constellations as we see them from Earth are in a completely different configuration when these stars are viewed from a different point in space. While they look to us here like they are arranged on a flat plane in two dimensions, they are actually different distances away from Earth. Imagine that from, say, "the side" the stars of a particular constellation would reveal their that they exist in three dimensions physically, not just two. Thus, the Big Dipper would not look like the Big Dipper, and so on. It's totally logical when you think about it from a broader perspective.