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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. Newer posts →. February 19, 2010 · 12:00 am. The Silent Prayer Stick. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. The old man scoured the ground below the largest piñon tree looking for the perfect stick. He needed strong wood, not rotten. About the thickness of his little finger. As long as his elbow to his middle finger. He bent and picked up a stick that felt good to him. The right thickness and length. He gave thanks to the big tree and turned back home. He made a fine string of dr...
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The Brave Son | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. A Clash of Delegates. The Upright Log and the Sun →. March 12, 2010 · 12:00 am. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. His father and older brothers gathered round him. We leave you here now, said his father. Salt from dried sweat crusted his father’s eyebrows. His brothers shifted and grinned behind their father. Watch the fields and protect them. Run home if you become afraid and I will send a son more brave than you. He decided to walk the periphery of the fields they had so la...
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The Sun Spider | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. The Upright Log and the Sun. March 26, 2010 · 12:00 am. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. Lucio found the longest, straightest sapling he thought he could handle. He cut it down and beat all its limbs off with his river-stone ax, then dragged it to the open glade rock below the village. He found seven more and did the same. What are you doing, Lucio? Building a Sun Spider, he said. When he had secured the eight polls together at the top and stacked stones at the footing of ea...
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Screamer | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. Tonight, She is Most Wise →. April 2, 2010 · 12:00 am. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. The scream woke all the light sleepers in the village and they poured out of their houses carrying sticks and axes and throwing stones. Who made the scream? Natwani asked over and over. People pointed in different directions. It was not human, said a woman whose quivering voice betrayed her fear. Natwani quieted them. Is anyone missing? The village is haunted! We must abandon it! Early th...
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Waking the High Priest | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. The Silent Prayer Stick. A Clash of Delegates →. February 26, 2010 · 12:00 am. Waking the High Priest. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. I will not wake him, said the Owl Man. Both were the most junior and newest members of the High Priest’s house, and they were the only ones left on duty in the hours before first light. Both knew what happened to the last ones to wake the High Priest. So who do we tell? I am not a skywatcher, said the Owl Man. I do not know these things.
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A Clash of Delegates | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. Waking the High Priest. The Brave Son →. March 5, 2010 · 12:00 am. A Clash of Delegates. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. The two visiting dignitaries ignored each other as they performed their morning rituals to welcome and encourage the coming of the sun. They offered cornmeal and corn pollen to the sunrise, they chanted ancient words, and they acknowledged the four directions that became six when they called to the underworld and the above-ground world. To recognize the s...
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Tonight, She is Most Wise | Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey
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Anasazi Stories by Jeff Posey. April 9, 2010 · 12:00 am. Tonight, She is Most Wise. An Anasazi Story by Jeff Posey. She went away a girl and returned two years later a mysterious woman, unmarried, without child, her hands soft from lack of labor. She came back, she said, because she dreamed seven nights in a row of a black full moon rising between the spires of the Twin War Gods. Tonight, she is Most Wise, more even than Grandfather Skywatcher, said her mother to anyone who cared to eavesdrop. Grandfathe...