Essie Pinola Parrish (1902–1979), was the last Kashaya Pomo spiritual leader and an expert basketweaver.
Essie Pinola Parrish (1902–1979), was a Kashaya Pomo spiritual leader and basket weaver.
Biography
Parrish was best known for her expertise in basket weaving. Robert Kennedy was among her collectors.
Essie Parrish, "along with Mabel McKay, of the revitalized Bole Maru Dreamer religion." She lectured at the New School in New York City in 1972. "She was acknowledged as her people’s 'dreamer' at age 6 and had a great ability for prophesy and dream interpretation."
Parrish educated Kashaya (Kashia) children in the Kashaya Pomo language. She collaborated with Robert Oswalt, a linguist at University of California, Berkeley, to write a dictionary of Kashaya Pomo. Her work on Kashaya Pomo is in the California Language Archive. She "helped create over 20 anthropological films documenting Pomo culture and ceremonies."
Quote
"Toward the end of the world, when I am no longer here ... it's important people remember and respect."*
CHICCHAN
Kin 245: Red Spectral Serpent
I dissolve in order to survive
Releasing instinct
I seal the store of life force
With the spectral tone of liberation
I am guided by my own power doubled
I am a polar kin
I transport the red galactic spectrum.
The mind has been conditioned to think that if it is not thinking, then there is something wrong.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)
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