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One formation caught my attention this summer of 2007.\u00a0 I called it the Fractal of Man.\u00a0 It appeared at Chute Causeway in Wiltshire England on the 26th of July. It took on similarities of Starglyphs that have appeared since 1997, beginning with a formation at Milk Hill.\u00a0 This was the first formation of its kind.\u00a0 It was a six-pointed star fractal with a series of circles that encompassed it.\u00a0 This Starglyph began a new symbolic journey, that to me, was to become a language that supersedes the common knowledge found in symbols and opened the doors to an unfolding universe.\u00a0 The very nature of the Starglyph demonstrates that thought within its structure, as you can see from my article “Six-pointed Star ~ Koke Fractal.”\"six_pointed_star_1997\"<\/p>\n

Some of the most important symbols I found were the circle and square. They reoccur in a hidden manner throughout many Starglyphs.\u00a0 They are symbols related to my ancestors.\u00a0 The square has long since been seen as a symbol of the earth and the material realms.\u00a0 Its four corners can be seen as earth, wind, fire, and water.\u00a0 These too, are elements connected into and understood within the Native American medicine wheel, found through the unseen square within it.\u00a0 The medicine wheel is an infinite symbol with many meanings.\u00a0 It can take life times to truly understand it.\u00a0 It is a symbol that was carried by the Native American plains people originally, although many other natives honor it and have made it their own.\u00a0 It is used extensively by the Sioux Nation, as this nation carries it with their sacred bundles.\u00a0 The Sioux have long since made this symbol from porcupine quills, to be worn on clothes, and carried in ceremony.\u00a0 The Sioux Nation along with other plains nations has used the medicine wheel for many thousands of years.\u00a0 In the late 1990’s, a sacred elder of the Anishinabe brought forth much understanding of the medicine wheel and many books were written about it.\u00a0 The Anishinabe are another plains nation.<\/p>\n

Although this is a bit off the topic, I feel a few points need to be mentioned here, because of confusion I have seen.\u00a0 I have noticed people of the European nations misunderstanding the origin of Native people and their ways.\u00a0 They don’t seem to realize the vast difference of traditions and teachings that can come from different nations.\u00a0 Hopi and the plains nations are as different from each other as the Buddhists are from the Jewish traditions.\u00a0 Yet, there is a common similarity that can be seen among all Native nations.<\/p>\n

\"medicine_wheel\"Recently on a website, I saw a portrait of a Native American wearing braids, a breastplate and holding a ceremonial pipe.\u00a0 This person was labeled a Hopi.\u00a0 The website didn’t seem realize that it was Sioux or plains people who carried and wore these objects. The Hopi people’s ways are much different. See the following for more information.: http:\/\/www.mnsu.edu\/emuseum\/cultural\/northamerica\/hopi.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hopi Nation holds the understanding of the 5th world, which many have heard of.\u00a0This world is an understanding important to all people.\u00a0However, the Hopi have never carried the ways of the pipe, braids, breastplate, or worn eagle feathers.\u00a0 They don’t wear the symbols you see on popular native clothing; most of what you see comes from the plains people.\u00a0\u00a0 We people of the plains do not carry the way of the 5th world, although we honor the nation for their ways and see they carry truth in what they say.\u00a0 Our symbols are different than those of the western native people and Hopi Nation, although we can understand each other and could sit down and smoke the pipe together.<\/p>\n

\"Red_Cloud_Posters\"The Hopi reside in a reservation in central Arizona.\u00a0 They possess kachinas that are spirits of their journeys.\u00a0 They are the only native nation that possesses these.\u00a0 The plains people are of an entirely different way, involving the buffalo and many animal spirits most commonly known around the world.\u00a0 It is the plains people who speak of all the different animal spirits you would find written in books, such as the owl, bear, and wolf.\u00a0 Animals are in all native cultures but not spoken of in the ways you might find as totems you read about. The plains nations were 1000 to 2000 miles or kilometers from the Hopi.<\/p>\n

\"hopi_kachinas\"The plains people have carried with them many of the overlapping symbols often found in the wheat field symbols.\u00a0 We carry the symbols most known to the world, such as the medicine wheel.\u00a0 The origin of the white buffalo legend is also from the Sioux Nation.\u00a0 It was a way given to an elder called Chief Hollow Horn when he was gifted a sacred bundle containing a pipe, along with its seven rites.\u00a0 It is the plains people who lived with millions of buffalo that roamed the countryside and we are the people who held them in high order in ceremony and journeyed with them.\u00a0 Perhaps these websites are a small beginning to understanding our cultures:<\/p>\n