What The Indigenous Believe About Eclipses 🌞 Traditional N..
Added 2024-04-08 20:08:10 +0000 UTCWhat The Indigenous Believe About Eclipses 🌞
Traditional Navajo knowledge teaches us that eclipses have always been a part of human experience! When an eclipse begins, Navajo elders strongly instruct their community to go inside the hogan to ensure they don’t look up at the sun. It is considered a time of interaction between the sun and the moon. They sit quietly and in contemplation, or recount traditional teachings about the origins of the sun and moon. These practices are grounded in their deeply held respect for the cosmic order 🫶🏻
It is also believed that during an eclipse, the Sun and the Moon are mating. After the passing of the eclipse, when the sun or moon becomes fully bright once again, it is believed that a birthing has just taken place. It is believed that the mating is to give birth to, or renew, the universe and all creation. During this birthing/renewal process, the universe and all creation are reborn, realigned, and there is growth and development amongst all of creation as well!!
The eclipse is a reflection of love! There is no taboo by looking at the eclipse other than watching the sun and moon come together in the embrace of making love. It is a special day to reflect on what love means to you, to remove any anger you may have and do a deed of kindness and an act of love. It is a day of giving, of life, of love, for without the sun and moon we would be in misery just as our legend tells us
