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Photographer: Chris English
Taken: November 11, 2013
Caption: Cuarto Centenario Memorial Marker - Numbe Whageh Plaque
Additional Description: Numbe Whageh Our Center Place. From the beginning of time, life has swirled within and around Numbe Whageh, our Pueblo center place. Clouds rise from mountain peaks into billowing white giants in the sky. Winds gather from the four directions. Lightning and thunder follow the clouds and the smell of rain fills the air. Drops of water soak the dry, cracked ground as wet pebbles and rocks glisten with subtle browns and greys. Small trickles of water find their way around trees, boulders and stones through Numbe Whageh. Here birds, lizards and ants come to drink and live. Pinons, chamisas and grasses sprout, grow and send off seeds to sustain others and start life anew. Cycles begin, continue and fade. It is out of this moist center place that the Towa, the Pueblo people emerged. From here, we, the Towa, know the clouds, mountains, winds and all other creatures who swirl with us. This is our world place, Here we see beauty, feel love and know a sacred wholeness...at Numbe Whageh, our center place.
Submitted: January 5, 2014, by Chris English of Phoenix, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p263824
File Size: 3.904 Megabytes

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