13 Chicchan
Red Cosmic Serpent
Rejecting conscious
Ecstasy
We descend into
Purgatory –
A Culture of Affliction
With ritualized Addiction
Our divine and
potent Destiny
Lies dazed –
degraded
Drunk – inflated –
drugged and sated
With consumer Goods
and Services
Hierarchies mete and measure
Top to Bottom
Left to Hard Right
Defending the
indefensible
Imagination dies in
Projection
Fundamentalism
breeds Ignorance
Perfectionism
precludes Creation
Capitalism kills
Compassion
But coiled among and
between
Straight Lines – Laws,
Rules and Regulations –
Curves a Serpent like a Smile
Oblivious and full
of Wild Life
The ineffable Rise
of a Breast
Breaks through this
Madness in the West .
Awaken
Silent silver One!
Slide in and out
from under
Patriarchy finally
Dead and torn
asunder.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Patriarchy finally
Mary Youngblood
Mary Youngblood (born June 24, 1958 in Kirkland, Washington) is a Native American musician descendant who plays the Native American flute. A half-Aleut/half-Seminole child, she was adopted by Dr. Bob and Leah Edwards, both educators.
She has been awarded three Native American Music Awards, being the first female artist to win "Flutist of the Year," which she won in both 1999 and 2000, as well as winning "Best Female Artist" in 2000. She is also the first Native American descendant woman to have received a Grammy Award for "Best Native American Music Album", and the first Native American descendant woman to have won two Grammy's, the first for Beneath the Raven Moon in 2002 and Dance with the Wind in 2006.
In 2007 Mary Youngblood composed and played the flute music on the soundtrack for documentary film, "The Spirit of Sacajawea."
Ms. Youngblood is on the advisory board of the World Flute Society.
The Library of Congress maintains eight (8) of Mary Youngblood's sound recordings.
Discography
Youngblood has released the following solo albums:
Sacred Place: A Mary Youngblood Collection 2008, Silver Wave
Dance with the Wind 2006, Silver Wave
Feed the Fire 2004, Silver Wave
Beneath the Raven Moon 2002, Silver Wave
Heart of the World 1999, Silver Wave
The Offering (live recording) 1998, Silver Wave
Three of these albums have been published as books of sheet music transcribed for Native American flute:
The Offering
Heart of the World
Beneath the Raven Moon
Her work has been included in the following compilations and soundtracks:
Voice of the Wind with Mary Youngblood & Michael Bayard (Live CD&DVD) 2016, Pure Motion
Media
My Mothers Garden by Singer-Songwriter Thea
Bears with Joanne Shenandoah, Lawrence Laughing, Lyle Lovett, Alice Gomez, and Claude Carmichael
Prayer for Peace featuring Michel Cusson, and with Mary Youngblood, Joanne Shenandoah
Many Blessings: A Native American Celebration with Lawrence Laughing, Joanne Shenandoah, Alice Gomez, Robert Mirabal, Tito La Rosa, and Peter Kater
Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth with Robert Mirabal, Star Nayea, Bill Miller, Joanne Shenandoah, Little Wolf Band, and Walela*
CHICCHAN
Kin 65: Red Cosmic Serpent
I endure in order to survive
Transcending instinct
I seal the store of life force
With the cosmic tone of presence
I am guided by the power of universal water.
Everything that comes into being mutates at precise moments in a synchronized timing process which is governed by the Law of Time.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
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