November 15, 2005

• Windmills
   
  

  Upper part of above picture–

  From today’s New York Times,
  Seeing Mountains in
  Starry Clouds of Creation.

  Lower part of above picture–
  Pilgrimage to Spider Rock:

  “This magical place, according
  to Navajo Legend, was the home of Spider Woman, who gave the gift of weaving
  to the Dineh’ People.  Today’s Navajos trace the excellence of their finest textiles to this
  time of legends, when their patron, Changing Woman, met Spider Woman,
  the first Weaver.”

  
  Vine Deloria Jr.,
   
  Evolution, Creationism,
  and Other Modern Myths:

  “The continuing struggle between evolutionists and creationists, a hot
  political topic for the past four decades, took a new turn in the
  summer of 1999 when the Kansas Board of Education voted to omit the
  mention of evolution in its newly approved curriculum, setting off
  outraged cries of foul by the scientific establishment.  Don
  Quixotes on both sides mounted their chargers and went searching for
  windmills.”

  Related material–

  A figure from
  last night’s entry,
  Spider Woman:

  

  From Sunday, the day
  of Vine Deloria’s death,
  a picture that might be
  called Changing Woman:

    

  Kaleidoscope turning…
  Shifting pattern
  within unalterable structure…
  – Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat     

  See also the windmill figure

  

  in Time and Eternity
  (Log 24, Feb. 1, 2003)

  and

  a review
  of Fritz Leiber’s
  The Big Time,

  

  “a story that works.”

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