I came across this Zuni style vintage Navajo Thunderbird and Katsina design ring the other day and was interested to know more as I had not seen the two connected before in a Navajo item.
Being someone who is generally fascinated by all things that are in the sky or fall out of them I wanted to learn more.
I had known from my research that the Katsina people were known of as visitors to some of the southern tribes and dolls were made in their form to educate the children of who these 'spirits' as they were known were.
Katsina Doll model
Going back to the Navajo ring, it was interesting to see Katsina figures on the band, as something from their culture from off this planet being displayed rather than denied which is generally the case these days, in case it creates 'panic.'
Katsina ring by Benny Ration
But I have also seen other similar things to the Katsina or Kachina in the Dogon peoples of Africa, they have representations in their costumes and doll models of pretty much the same forms of the Katsina.
Dogon traditional costume - about 7000 miles east of the Hopi people!
Unfortunately this means I am drawing another conclusion of connectivity, the Dogon lived near where the ancient Pharaohs resided in Egypt. The Dogon were given star maps that only in the last hundred years have been proven correct because we have developed the telescopes to be able to see these stars. The Dogon are said to have been given these maps 10,000 years ago.
Hopi petroglyph of a star craft crash
An interesting adjunct to the Katsina ring is this Navajo Corn Spirit bracelet, I did read about the Navajo and the corn pollen gathering before sunrise and with the Katsina connection, then the Dogon connection, we are able to connect a line back to Egypt and the Pyramids.
Navajo Crop Spirit bracelet
If we connect ancient monuments such as the Pyramids and Stonehenge in England, we only have to go a few miles to the Avebury area of England and the proliferation of crop circles in the wheat fields.
A case of all things being related and connected, as a Mayan / Hopi symbol turned up made in the corn. In Wiltshire.
And this was no easy to fake small design, it was a geometrically perfect design that appeared overnight and was around 300 feet across.
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