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Blue Birds Teach About Holy Relationships
Patricia Anne Davis
Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh
We call ourselves the children and grandchildren of the holy people, diyiin dinee’. Our original spiritual
name is earth-surface people and our descriptive name as humane-beings living between mother earth and
father sky is five-fingers people.The name T’aa Dineh translates to people, which describes our origins as
descendents of the holy people. Therefore, there is a teaching and a path of liberation and return to
creator prescribed by four corn-pollen footsteps upon our spiritual life journey from child, to youth, adult and
elder. When we remember our origins in the blessingway ceremony, we claim our inherent holiness and
wholeness ultimately as a precious child of the creator. Reclaiming our true holographic holistic identity
within the natural order implies that we did not evolve from the animal kingdom. To say “I am” is an
affirmation of our oneness within creator’s will-to-love. We say we are constituted of the four sacred
elements of divine creation: air-spiritual; fire-mental, water-emotive; earth-physical. And, corn represents
abundance for social and economic wellbeing.
We have been directed, instructed, guided, protected and blessed by the Dineh blessingway and
protectionway ceremonies in temporal time since our emergence form three underworlds into this fourth
world of physical plane experience within the natural order of temporal time and clockwise cardinal direction.
In the first phase of creation, there was creative purpose within hozho, an all encompassing concept of
oneness, holiness and wholeness. In the second phase of creation, every thing was placed in the four
cardinal directions, moving clockwise in the cycles of humane being development, temporal time and four
seasons. Third, there is order in the mineral world-rock people; plant world-plant people; animal world-
animal people; bird world-bird people; humane beings-precious child of holy people and creator; and,
“angelic” world-holy people. Fourth, life principles were placed in the four cardinal directions to travel on the
four corn-pollen footstep path of liberation and return to creator. Fifth, there were love principles in co-
creative intention, leadership strategy, win-win decision-making and communal responsibility to restore
resources to the next generation in communication and relationships within the natural order.
A means of travel on our spiritual life journey requires balance within divine laws, ethical leadership and
spiritual standards for living; harmony in communication and relationship; peace-making with creator, our
holistic-SELF; and others with reverence as a way of life; beauty in our environment; and joy within our
hearts, family and home. Thus, we say we are walking in beauty by living the loving way as a way of
everyday life. The means of travel is our songs and affirmations in ceremony. Before our emergence into
this fourth world – the glittering world, from the underworlds, there were mist people created by holy-wind
people. The holy-wind people created first woman, first man, first girl and first boy; and, changing woman
created the first four clan-families.
While we have many ceremonies, there are five major ceremonies appropriate for every child of any race
or religion in the world: blessing way; protection way; purification and re-orientation to wellness; spiritual
renewal and end of life journey to spirit world. The goal of these five major ceremonies is spiritual wellbeing,
healthy-helping in communication and relationships; co-creative living; and, a joyful heart for longevity to
accomplish our gender life-task. We say that we are born spiritual holy and whole; we know our part - how
to travel with our relatives by holy thinking; strong planning; co-creative decision-making; restoring
resources; and, living the loving way. We are constituted of divine creation. Therefore, we know our sacred
place within the natural order.
The bird people have symbolism for a healthy partnership; communication and relationship between a
mother and father within the blue bird family nest in this interconnected and interrelated context. This holy
relationship represents healthy-helping in a gender partnership between the male protector-provider and
the female nurturer gender life-task. The principle of inclusive-love extends to clan-family communication
and relationship for communal responsibility to govern a tribal ceremonial life among the clan families. The
father and mother blue bird are committed to staying together. They never leave one another for another
mate. As bird people, together they build the nest to prepare a home for their baby birds. They both
protect and nurture them until they are grown enough to leave their nest.
To T’aa Dineh, the blue bird people show us the unifying message of the creator’s will-to-love in divine
creation. The bird people sing at dawn, exactly at sunrise in the dawning light for the beginning of a new
day. As humane beings directed and guided by divine laws within the natural order, we acknowledge and
appreciate our creator for the eternal balance and harmony within the universe. There is a bird represented
in the four cardinal directions to remind us that some birds are spiritual beings. We have a special song to
remember the blue bird who teaches us to remember the creator’s perfect love and peace within our hearts,
clan-family and home; and, to have reverence for family life in every sacred circle: personal, clan-family,
tribal, society and nation.
In the Dineh language world-view, the word “thinking” is clear and congruent thinking, which means whole-
brain thinking. Whole-brain thinking thus means the intuitive faculty. Whereas, compartmentalize thinking is
left-brain dominance over right-brain functions. Left-brain thinking is associated with linear sequential
functions and right-brain thinking is associated with holistic thinking. Using a Quantum Physics analogy, left-
brain thinking is the “particle” and right-brain thinking is the “wave” concept. This is all life and livingness:
reflection and action; structure and movement; entity/construct and process. Thus, our word for thinking in
the context of the order natural means connectedness with creator through the etheric network with creator’s
intellect-mind.
The etheric-network extends from our sympathetic nervous system, immune system and endocrine system,
from neurological, biological, physiology to the physical-etheric and beyond. This type of inclusive-love
“thinking” is inherent in our word for clear/congruent-thinking. In the English language world-view and
western science paradigm, the left-brain function is considered rational/logical thinking and the right-brain
function is considered intuitive thinking; and, there is a mind-body dichotomy, or separation of the “thought”
from the “thing” interpretation. In Dineh interpretation, it is contradictory to compartmentalize thinking into
dualistic personal thinking, which is we consider a denial of oneness with creator. Our word to describe this
type of denial of holy-thinking is digiis, meaning “lost” due to a confused mind and dis-harmony.
Connectedness with creator and inter-connectedness with other people occurs through acknowledging and
appreciating the appropriate function of the intellect-mind continuum for remembering and realizing that holy-
thinking within the natural order is to awaken us to the creator’s purpose of our spiritual life journey.
Our word for the concept of the etheric-network literally translates to rainbow, which contains the seven
colors of viberational sound for the manifestation of every expression of being humane. This requires using
the creative imagination faculty, which is the intellect-mind that belongs to creator and must be re-tuned to
creator in the ceremonial healing process context for awakening to oneness. The instinct-mind of the animal
world is automatically instructed, directed and guided in their purpose within the natural order. In an
Indigenous American tribal way of knowing, there is one direct continuous linkage in the clear-thinking that is
whole-brain thinking as the rainbow bridge to the holy-thinking and wisdom and knowledge of ancestors
through the curing phases of ceremony. In metaphysical language, the “concrete-mind” correlates to Dineh
whole-brain thinking and the “abstract-mind” correlates to holy-thinking, sometimes translated to “wisdom.”
To us, all hodiyin sacred creation is communicating.
The bird people are instructed by instinct and humane beings are gifted with the co-creative imagination,
which gives us the capability of co-creating opportunities for collective co-creative solutions when we live
accordingly within the natural order of the universe. This distinction in using our co-creative imagination is
the correct function of the intellect-mind as humane beings. Using the intellect-mind for its appropriate
function is: beautiful-thinking for strong planning, nitsahakees doo nahata’ ziil. Each person embodies the
creator’s will-to-love and choosing to use the appropriate function of thinking, planning, decision-making for
restoring resources and abundant living to the next generations of people. Each person can awaken to their
healthy-helping gender life-task as the blue birds teach us. Their brains are “wired” for instinct and our
brains are “wired” for collective co-creativity in traveling on our spiritual life journey on the liberation path of
return to creator by remembering awakening. Our whole-brain thinking is necessary for collective co-
creative decision-making to restore resources to the next generation, so the people may live abundantly in
the global nest of life.
The prophecies of Indigenous Americans and Indigenous people world-wide say that now is the time that
the persecution of our people and also our silence regarding our ancestral wisdom and knowledge has
ended. They say that now is the time to teach the world about peacemaking through our ceremonial life
ways. They say that now is the time when the Condor and the Eagle meet to awaken the people, to
remember and renew our spiritual teachings through the love principle. The Condor represents South
America and the Eagle represents North America. The Condor symbolizes the heart and the Eagle
symbolizes the mind. The mind and the heart are aligning with the original instructions given by the holy
people for walking in beauty and living the loving way between mother earth and father sky. Using the
intellect-mind for holy-thinking and strong-planning with the loving-heart for giving and receiving the creator’
s will-to-love essence in order to live and teach an inclusive-love principle, is the sacred message from the
bird people today. Defining the intellect-mind as the One-Mind within the natural order connects all living
systems to this principle.
The phrase hozhoogo k’e iina is saying that the people are alive because we are related to all living
beings within the cosmos being at-one with creator. Our spiritual, mental, emotive, physical holographic-
holistic bodies are not ours in a personal sense. We are held in intelligent-coherence within the creator’s
intellect-mind. The term unhealthy-helping refers to the rescuing and enabling of mankind’s will-to-power, in
the folly of believing in “separation” and the “possibility” of usurping the creator’s will-to-love. Have we
learned from our mistakes of misusing the function of the intellect-mind for making exclusive win-lose
destructive and death-producing choices? Can we heal from those choices and begin the curing process of
using our intellect-mind for its appropriate function of holy-thinking through whole-brain thinking, the co-
creative imagination, for making inclusive win-win constructive and life-affirming choices? What have we
learned from using information and external force without love?
Where are the five-fingers people, the humane-beings of the global family who are ready to listen and
awaken to the voices of Indigenous ancestral wisdom and knowledge using the creator’s love-essence and
love-principles, so the people may live?
My co-creative intellect-mind belongs to creator –, ya at’ eehgo nitseskees
I am a sacred precious child of creator – shil hozho
©Patricia Anne Davis
e.mail:patricia_anne9@hotmail.com
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Patricia Anne Davis
Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh
We call ourselves the children and grandchildren of the holy people, diyiin dinee’. Our original spiritual
name is earth-surface people and our descriptive name as humane-beings living between mother earth and
father sky is five-fingers people.The name T’aa Dineh translates to people, which describes our origins as
descendents of the holy people. Therefore, there is a teaching and a path of liberation and return to
creator prescribed by four corn-pollen footsteps upon our spiritual life journey from child, to youth, adult and
elder. When we remember our origins in the blessingway ceremony, we claim our inherent holiness and
wholeness ultimately as a precious child of the creator. Reclaiming our true holographic holistic identity
within the natural order implies that we did not evolve from the animal kingdom. To say “I am” is an
affirmation of our oneness within creator’s will-to-love. We say we are constituted of the four sacred
elements of divine creation: air-spiritual; fire-mental, water-emotive; earth-physical. And, corn represents
abundance for social and economic wellbeing.
We have been directed, instructed, guided, protected and blessed by the Dineh blessingway and
protectionway ceremonies in temporal time since our emergence form three underworlds into this fourth
world of physical plane experience within the natural order of temporal time and clockwise cardinal direction.
In the first phase of creation, there was creative purpose within hozho, an all encompassing concept of
oneness, holiness and wholeness. In the second phase of creation, every thing was placed in the four
cardinal directions, moving clockwise in the cycles of humane being development, temporal time and four
seasons. Third, there is order in the mineral world-rock people; plant world-plant people; animal world-
animal people; bird world-bird people; humane beings-precious child of holy people and creator; and,
“angelic” world-holy people. Fourth, life principles were placed in the four cardinal directions to travel on the
four corn-pollen footstep path of liberation and return to creator. Fifth, there were love principles in co-
creative intention, leadership strategy, win-win decision-making and communal responsibility to restore
resources to the next generation in communication and relationships within the natural order.
A means of travel on our spiritual life journey requires balance within divine laws, ethical leadership and
spiritual standards for living; harmony in communication and relationship; peace-making with creator, our
holistic-SELF; and others with reverence as a way of life; beauty in our environment; and joy within our
hearts, family and home. Thus, we say we are walking in beauty by living the loving way as a way of
everyday life. The means of travel is our songs and affirmations in ceremony. Before our emergence into
this fourth world – the glittering world, from the underworlds, there were mist people created by holy-wind
people. The holy-wind people created first woman, first man, first girl and first boy; and, changing woman
created the first four clan-families.
While we have many ceremonies, there are five major ceremonies appropriate for every child of any race
or religion in the world: blessing way; protection way; purification and re-orientation to wellness; spiritual
renewal and end of life journey to spirit world. The goal of these five major ceremonies is spiritual wellbeing,
healthy-helping in communication and relationships; co-creative living; and, a joyful heart for longevity to
accomplish our gender life-task. We say that we are born spiritual holy and whole; we know our part - how
to travel with our relatives by holy thinking; strong planning; co-creative decision-making; restoring
resources; and, living the loving way. We are constituted of divine creation. Therefore, we know our sacred
place within the natural order.
The bird people have symbolism for a healthy partnership; communication and relationship between a
mother and father within the blue bird family nest in this interconnected and interrelated context. This holy
relationship represents healthy-helping in a gender partnership between the male protector-provider and
the female nurturer gender life-task. The principle of inclusive-love extends to clan-family communication
and relationship for communal responsibility to govern a tribal ceremonial life among the clan families. The
father and mother blue bird are committed to staying together. They never leave one another for another
mate. As bird people, together they build the nest to prepare a home for their baby birds. They both
protect and nurture them until they are grown enough to leave their nest.
To T’aa Dineh, the blue bird people show us the unifying message of the creator’s will-to-love in divine
creation. The bird people sing at dawn, exactly at sunrise in the dawning light for the beginning of a new
day. As humane beings directed and guided by divine laws within the natural order, we acknowledge and
appreciate our creator for the eternal balance and harmony within the universe. There is a bird represented
in the four cardinal directions to remind us that some birds are spiritual beings. We have a special song to
remember the blue bird who teaches us to remember the creator’s perfect love and peace within our hearts,
clan-family and home; and, to have reverence for family life in every sacred circle: personal, clan-family,
tribal, society and nation.
In the Dineh language world-view, the word “thinking” is clear and congruent thinking, which means whole-
brain thinking. Whole-brain thinking thus means the intuitive faculty. Whereas, compartmentalize thinking is
left-brain dominance over right-brain functions. Left-brain thinking is associated with linear sequential
functions and right-brain thinking is associated with holistic thinking. Using a Quantum Physics analogy, left-
brain thinking is the “particle” and right-brain thinking is the “wave” concept. This is all life and livingness:
reflection and action; structure and movement; entity/construct and process. Thus, our word for thinking in
the context of the order natural means connectedness with creator through the etheric network with creator’s
intellect-mind.
The etheric-network extends from our sympathetic nervous system, immune system and endocrine system,
from neurological, biological, physiology to the physical-etheric and beyond. This type of inclusive-love
“thinking” is inherent in our word for clear/congruent-thinking. In the English language world-view and
western science paradigm, the left-brain function is considered rational/logical thinking and the right-brain
function is considered intuitive thinking; and, there is a mind-body dichotomy, or separation of the “thought”
from the “thing” interpretation. In Dineh interpretation, it is contradictory to compartmentalize thinking into
dualistic personal thinking, which is we consider a denial of oneness with creator. Our word to describe this
type of denial of holy-thinking is digiis, meaning “lost” due to a confused mind and dis-harmony.
Connectedness with creator and inter-connectedness with other people occurs through acknowledging and
appreciating the appropriate function of the intellect-mind continuum for remembering and realizing that holy-
thinking within the natural order is to awaken us to the creator’s purpose of our spiritual life journey.
Our word for the concept of the etheric-network literally translates to rainbow, which contains the seven
colors of viberational sound for the manifestation of every expression of being humane. This requires using
the creative imagination faculty, which is the intellect-mind that belongs to creator and must be re-tuned to
creator in the ceremonial healing process context for awakening to oneness. The instinct-mind of the animal
world is automatically instructed, directed and guided in their purpose within the natural order. In an
Indigenous American tribal way of knowing, there is one direct continuous linkage in the clear-thinking that is
whole-brain thinking as the rainbow bridge to the holy-thinking and wisdom and knowledge of ancestors
through the curing phases of ceremony. In metaphysical language, the “concrete-mind” correlates to Dineh
whole-brain thinking and the “abstract-mind” correlates to holy-thinking, sometimes translated to “wisdom.”
To us, all hodiyin sacred creation is communicating.
The bird people are instructed by instinct and humane beings are gifted with the co-creative imagination,
which gives us the capability of co-creating opportunities for collective co-creative solutions when we live
accordingly within the natural order of the universe. This distinction in using our co-creative imagination is
the correct function of the intellect-mind as humane beings. Using the intellect-mind for its appropriate
function is: beautiful-thinking for strong planning, nitsahakees doo nahata’ ziil. Each person embodies the
creator’s will-to-love and choosing to use the appropriate function of thinking, planning, decision-making for
restoring resources and abundant living to the next generations of people. Each person can awaken to their
healthy-helping gender life-task as the blue birds teach us. Their brains are “wired” for instinct and our
brains are “wired” for collective co-creativity in traveling on our spiritual life journey on the liberation path of
return to creator by remembering awakening. Our whole-brain thinking is necessary for collective co-
creative decision-making to restore resources to the next generation, so the people may live abundantly in
the global nest of life.
The prophecies of Indigenous Americans and Indigenous people world-wide say that now is the time that
the persecution of our people and also our silence regarding our ancestral wisdom and knowledge has
ended. They say that now is the time to teach the world about peacemaking through our ceremonial life
ways. They say that now is the time when the Condor and the Eagle meet to awaken the people, to
remember and renew our spiritual teachings through the love principle. The Condor represents South
America and the Eagle represents North America. The Condor symbolizes the heart and the Eagle
symbolizes the mind. The mind and the heart are aligning with the original instructions given by the holy
people for walking in beauty and living the loving way between mother earth and father sky. Using the
intellect-mind for holy-thinking and strong-planning with the loving-heart for giving and receiving the creator’
s will-to-love essence in order to live and teach an inclusive-love principle, is the sacred message from the
bird people today. Defining the intellect-mind as the One-Mind within the natural order connects all living
systems to this principle.
The phrase hozhoogo k’e iina is saying that the people are alive because we are related to all living
beings within the cosmos being at-one with creator. Our spiritual, mental, emotive, physical holographic-
holistic bodies are not ours in a personal sense. We are held in intelligent-coherence within the creator’s
intellect-mind. The term unhealthy-helping refers to the rescuing and enabling of mankind’s will-to-power, in
the folly of believing in “separation” and the “possibility” of usurping the creator’s will-to-love. Have we
learned from our mistakes of misusing the function of the intellect-mind for making exclusive win-lose
destructive and death-producing choices? Can we heal from those choices and begin the curing process of
using our intellect-mind for its appropriate function of holy-thinking through whole-brain thinking, the co-
creative imagination, for making inclusive win-win constructive and life-affirming choices? What have we
learned from using information and external force without love?
Where are the five-fingers people, the humane-beings of the global family who are ready to listen and
awaken to the voices of Indigenous ancestral wisdom and knowledge using the creator’s love-essence and
love-principles, so the people may live?
My co-creative intellect-mind belongs to creator –, ya at’ eehgo nitseskees
I am a sacred precious child of creator – shil hozho
©Patricia Anne Davis
e.mail:patricia_anne9@hotmail.com
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