Our Star Lady is called "Waterway." This mystical picture is a very carefully rendered Navajo sand painting done by Joe Ben, Jr. The two waterways are thought to be Emergence Lakes, the route through which the Navajo ascended to this world. The four personages are Rain People with a rainbow over each, carrying clouds. They flank the east and west oceans (in the center) whose surfaces reflect the stars.
This picture shows us that ponds of water were once used to track and measure the stars, just as in India and in the southern lands. (see Maya / Aztec Star Learning and Measure Training.) This is a clear indication that star-watching was a well-known professional occupation by all the educated tribes of the Americas, long before the event of the telescope.
In this picture, the stars within the pools of water, I believe are
essential, not as the symbolic nature of religious esoteric observations,
but to ancient astronomy notations at the time the great meteorite fallout
of the Americas. As if to agree with the Navajo legend of emergence, a great
heat during this star event has been described by many nations around the
world. One can assume that the Navajo survived with the aid of cooling
waters deep within mountain caves. The few survivors emerged from those
caves to start a new life but with a greater awareness of the earth and
the heavens in relation to their own existence.
