Taa-naash-kaa-da

Taa-naash-kaa-da is the name of the 5th World of Coming Together that we have recently entered into according to Quero Apache Tlish Diyan cosmology (after about 750,000 years of the 4th World of Soul Sickness).  

It is also the name of the Sanctuary that Yraceburu Earthwisdom have established in New Mexico. Here's a poem inspired by my recent visit there.  They really are modelling the 5th World! 


Let me tell you about Taa-naash-kaa-da


About sitting in the kitchen early morning

Sipping tea – watching the land.

About how you may see Coyote walk across, stop

And look your way.


About the Blue Jay with the black topknot,

Who is just the handsomest bird you ever saw,

And then you realize that you’ve slowed down enough

To notice that,


About the wind chimes clinking gently in the night

And the murmurs in the soft lights

Of Ancestors going about their business.


Of the joyful cry of Lynda in the morning

With Shadow dogging her steps.


Of the smells of morning opening your heart

To beauty again

And the possibilities of vision.


Of the lizards, elk, dogs, plants, breezes, ridges, winds, sun, love….

Of the geese flying overhead

Of the medicine wheel that anchors it all.



Let me tell you of Taa-naash-kaa-da,

Of the night where the UFO’s play 

The coyotes yip

And the Kachinas dance.


Let me tell you of the guardians who hold the land

The Shimas and their seemingly inexhaustible love.



Let me tell you of Taa-naash-kaa-da,

And of how once you have stayed there

You carry it in your heart

And it holds a piece of your heart.


Let me tell you…

   If you can go – go soon!


(Pic is from Yraceburu Earthwisdom).

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