Aquila
Aquila
Aquila constellation is partly man-made by the ancient Anasazi Puebloans who have lived in the Four Corners area hundreds of years before the Navajos have emerged into the Four Corners.
Between 900 and 1500 AD, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture trades of goods and ceremonial gatherings.
The Anasazi Puebloans have held a distinctive knowledge of astrology of the changing seasons, the knowledge of stargazing and the Construction of Kivas for ceremonies which form of the star constellation within the dwellings. The Anasazi have somehow constructed Pueblo Pintado, Wiijiji Dwelling and Kim-me-ni-oli Dwelling far west of the Chaco Canyon Dwellings. The main core of the Aquila constellation is the spinning star Altair that is spinning eight to nine hours for one rotation and for our Sun in our Solar System is taking twenty-eight to thirty days for a full rotation. Altair is the 12th brightest star in the night sky and the Alpha star in the Aquila the Eagle in the famed Summer Triangle ties up with Deneb and Vega. Fajada Butte is known as Sun Dagger Rock due to a Sundial that was created by the Anasazi, a sunlight beam passes thru three stone boulder pads that shine over spiral petroglyph markings for the Sun’s positions for the Summer solstice, Winter solstice and the Earth’s position of the equinoxes. The Shadow of eight to nine hours just like the rotation of the spinning star Altair.
Fajada Butte
Aquila Constellation Star Map
Fajada Butte has a Mythology story that comes from the ages of the People of the Navajos who live in the Chaco Canyon areas of Lake Valley, Counselor, Nageezi, Lybrook, Kimbeto, Pueblo Pintado and in the Hogans of many Navajo Families that are living across the land. If you look at Fajada Butte it looks like it is spinning out of control. The Navajo named Fajada Butte, Dzil Diyilii (The Mountain that moves) also another name Tse’Yat’aa’h Hol Dinii’se’e’h (The Mountain that grows into the sky, it shrinks down to ground level during the day and at night it grows into the sky). The name of the Butte and the Star Altair are related to each other which makes Fajada Butte a very critical sacred place. Navajo stories of the Chaco Canyon the Gambler story and the story of Spider-Woman living up the Fajada Butte (Dzil Diyilii) are stories to keep people off the mesa so they will not grow older much faster before their time. The Eagle Chant ceremony and songs have come from the Chaco Canyon area just like Aquila constellation (the Eagle).
Fajanda Butte Map
Fajada Butte Altair Drawing by Stevie Begaye Nov 2017
The Spider lady lived up on top of Fajada Butte, Spider-woman has the power to turn herself into a young beautiful woman and lure young men into her home upon Fajada Butte. One day a young Navajo man name Ashkii’ Diyinii was traveling with some people through Chaco Canyon, they have traded some goods and were there to watch a gambling match of the birds and the ground animals. A young beautiful woman came up to Ashkii’ Diyinii and later on two more female came up to him with a desire to marry him. Spider-Woman uses her twisting powerful words to lure the Navajo man into her direction and off they went up into her Cave up on Fajada Butte. Spider-woman seduced Ashkii’ Diyinii and the next morning he woke up early before Spider-woman and realize she was an old grey-haired woman with a terrible snore living in a filthy cave with spider webs wrapped around bodies on the stone walls. Ashkii’ Diyinii escaped with the help of animals and climbing down with the Big-horned snake as his guide because the snake knew a secret passageway down from Fajada Butte.