The Next Skywatcher: Prequel to The Last Skywatcher Triple Trilogy Series (The Last Skywatcher, Anasazi Historical Thrillers with a Hint of Romance Book 1) (40 page)
Authors: Jeff Posey
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Anasazi America
, by David E. Stuart
Anasazi Architecture and American Design
, edited by Baker H. Morrow and V.B. Price
Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide (Arizona and the Southwest)
, by David Grant Noble
The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde
, by David E. Stuart
Book of the Hopi
, by Frank Waters
The Chaco Handbook, an Encyclopedic Guide
, by R. Gwinn Vivian and Bruce Hilpert
A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest
, by Alex Patterson
A History of the Ancient Southwest
, by Stephen H. Lekson
Hopi Dictionary/Hopiikwa Lavaytutuveni: A Hopi-English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect
, by Kenneth C. Hill, Ekkehart Malotki, Mary E. Black, and The Hopi Dictionary Project.
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
, by Craig Childs.
In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
, by David Roberts
In the Shadow of the Rocks: Archaeology of the Chimney Rock District in Southern Colorado
, by Florence C. Lister
Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian
, by Ray A. Williamson
Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest
, by Christy G Turner II and Jacqueline A. Turner
People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture
, by Kendrick Frazier
Visions of Chimney Rock: A Photographic Interpretation of the Place and Its People
, Edited by Helen L. Richardson
Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses
, by William W. Dunmire and Gail D. Tierney
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Not all names and words. Just a few
. I spent way too much time rabbit-trailing all this. No reason for you to go along for much of that ride.
Primary source is
Hopi Dictionary/Hopiikwa Lavaytutuveni: A Hopi-English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect
, by Kenneth C. Hill, Ekkehart Malotki, Mary E. Black, and The Hopi Dictionary Project, unless otherwise noted.
In alphabetical order.
Bluestone:
Turquoise.
Center Place Canyon:
Today’s Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
Choovio:
From the Hopi word
chöövio
, which means “antelope.”
Chumana:
From
Chu’mana
, which means “snake maiden.”
Corn Beer:
Did the Anasazi really have corn beer? I don’t know. Archaeology isn’t very good at finding evidence of ancient beer. But don’t you know that, sooner or later, some Anasazi person would have stumbled upon a mash of corn that would ferment and make alcohol? In the course of human history, that seems both common and inevitable.
The Fat Man:
I don’t know if there really could have been a fat man in the Anasazi culture, which was so obviously calorie-starved. But if there were, it would almost certainly be among the top elite, perhaps the one who controlled the black market.
Hakidonmuya:
From
Hakitonmuya
, which means “leap month,” the month they insert into the calendar to adjust it as needed. In the book, I have it mean “time of waiting for the full moon.” I obviously took some liberty with the meaning of this one.
Ihu:
From the Hopi word for “coyote,”
ihu
. It also means “gullible fool,” which doesn’t really match what the character became in this story.
Kaphe:
From
napikaphe
, which is a Hopi word for “tea.”
Kopavi:
From
Ko’pavi
, which means “the open door at the crown of the head.”
Lightfoot:
Not derived from anything. I just made it up. Seemed right for the kid.
Long-Haired Star:
The long-haired star that appears every seventy-six years is known to us as Halley’s Comet.
Másaw:
The Hopi spirit-being that is the lord and caretaker of the Third World of the Hopi (from
Book of the Hopi
, by Frank Waters). But he became too self-important, and the Creator demoted him to being the deity of death and the underworld in the current Fourth World.
