Meditations with the Navajo
Prayers Songs and Stories of Healing and Harmony
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2001
Summary
A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo.
- Explores the Navajo’s fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world.
- Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations.
- Includes meditations following each story or poem.
Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (lit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781879181670 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1879181673 |
| Author: | Gerald Hausman |
| Publisher: | Inner Traditions Bear and Company |
| Imprint: | Bear & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 9mm |
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” Meditations with the Navajo is a work refreshingly unlike many others dealing with Dine mythology. It is free of the anthropologist’s specialized verbiage. It speaks to people.”
“Meditations with the Navajo is a work refreshingly unlike many others dealing with Dine mythology. It is free of the anthropologist’s specialized verbiage. It speaks to people.” * Richard Erdoes, author of Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions and Crying for a Dream *“In his reverent, gentle workings of traditional themes, Gerald Hausman displays a deeper understanding of the natural world than most of the writers of our generation.” * Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki storyteller and author of Keepers of the Earth *
About The Author
Gerald Hausman
Gerald Hausman is a storyteller and author who has spent twenty-two years learning Navajo creation stories directly from tribal members. His work has been featured on National Public Radio and the History Channel. The author of more than fifty books, including The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica and Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee, Hausman lives on a barrier island in Florida.
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