Prayer for Earth Mother

by Ellen Levinson

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13.500 x 10.500 inches

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Prayer for Earth Mother

Artist

Ellen Levinson

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Painting - Watercolor

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"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
― Rumi

This painting was done from a photograph I took while in Sedona, Az. This was my first vacation ever without my family - I went with a group of friends and strangers from a meditation group.On this day we took one of the jeep tours into the canyons and ended up with the most wonderful guides one could ever want.Before we took off exploring this gentleman spoke of the area and it's ancestors,the flora and fauna and then said a prayer for the land and all of God's creations...teaching and speaking with an attitude of gratitude. It was an incredible day filled with many more beautiful sights and insights - like what cacti are edible, making a soup from the lichen on the rocks etc. But most of all it was a day of prayers to honor and heal the earth and mankind.

Sedona, Arizona was a quaint little town when I first visited.I fell so in love with the area that the owner of the motel we stayed at offered me a job with room and board - if I hadn't been married and had kids home waiting for me I'm not sure I would have ever come home! It has since becoming a booming tourist attraction built up with condos and major hotel chains.But the beauty of the landscape and the defining Red Rocks and amazing rock formations will hopefully never change.
We awoke every morning to a beautiful view punctuated by the Red Rock formation of Snoopy lying on his back!
Hiking,camping, and swimming are just some of the many things to do in the area.
Sedona /sɨˈdoʊnə/ is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona.
Sedona was named after Sedona Arabelle Miller Schnebly (1877-1950), the wife of Theodore Carlton Schnebly, the city's first postmaster, who was celebrated for her hospitality and industriousness.[
The first documented human presence in Sedona area dates to 11500 to 9000 B.C. It was not until 1995 when a Clovis projectile point was discovered in Honanki which revealed the presence of the Paleo-Indian. Those people were big-game hunters. Around 9000 B.C., the pre-historic Archaic people appeared in the Verde Valley. These people were hunter-gatherers and their presence in the area was longer than in other areas of the Southwest, until 300 A.D., most likely because of the ecological diversity and large amount of resources. There is a good amount of rock art left by the Archaic people around Sedona in places such as Palatki and Honanki.[3]
Around 650 A.D., the Sinagua people entered the Verde Valley. Their culture is known for its art such as pottery, basketry and their masonry. They left a lot of rock art, pueblos and cliff dwellings such as Montezuma Well, Honanki, Palatki and Tuzigoot especially in the later periods of their presence in the area. The Sinagua abandoned the Verde Valley about 1400 A.D.[3] Researchers believe the Sinagua and other clans moved to the Hopi mesas in Arizona and the Zuni and other pueblos in New Mexico.[4]
The Yavapai came in from the West when the Sinagua were still there in the Verde Valley around 1300 A.D. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Some archaeologists place the Apache arrival in the Verde Valley around 1450 A.D. Many Apache groups were nomadic or seminomadic and traveled over large areas.[5]
The Yavapai and Apache tribes were forcibly removed from the Verde Valley in 1876, to the San Carlos Indian Reservation, 180 miles (290 km) southeast. About 1,500 people were marched, in midwinter, to San Carlos. Several hundred lost their lives. The survivors were interned for 25 years. About 200 Yavapai and Apache people returned to the Verde Valley in 1900 and have since intermingled as a single political entity although culturally distinct.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedona,_Arizona

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