A little botanist arvol very eager to show you how well her succulents are doing

Revisit of a design I made a while ago

Guess I'll try coming back to Tumblr then...

For my first art post in like 7 years, have some random blue arvol doodles

It's @kevinsanoposts!

! I mean, it's fat hands!

I mean it's Angela! IT'S ANGELA.

A lone Arvol

Finally made a reference sheet of Vera Io, my arvol elementalist girl. Posting the SFW version here because I'm not dealing with tumblrs weird censoring - still, pretty proud of this one. The arvol species was created by kevinsano!

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Leonard Peltier, I Am Everyone, in Prison Writings. My Life Is My Sun Dance, Edited by Harvey Arden, Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Preface by Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1999

I am everyone who ever died without a voice or a prayer or a hope or a chance… everyone who ever suffered for being an Indian, for being human, for being indigenous, for being free, for being Other, for being committed… I am every one of them. Every single one. Yes. Even you. I am everyone.

International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee American Indian Movement The Jericho Movement

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Calls for Unity

All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer: Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, calls on people from around the globe to gather at sacred places on June 21 and join in prayer for the healing and protection of Grandmother Earth.

June 21, 2022

We warned that one day you would not be able to control what you have created, that day is here. Now we must unite once again to create an energy shift upon Grandmother Earth. She cannot take any more impact from all the selfish decisions being made.

We have come to that place in this time upon Earth, to now make a stand together. To unite -- each in our own sacred life-ways we have chosen to walk, whatever religion or belief, go to your sacred spaces and join us in these special prayers for the Earth on June 21st. It has been proven we can create miracles when we unite spiritually.

Many white animals have shown their sacred color throughout the world now, and they continue to communicate that we are at the crossroads. We have walked through two years of losing many relatives through a terrible disease, and so have the animals and plant life also continue to suffer. The imbalance of Mni wic'oni (water of life) causing droughts and fires to severe flooding is everywhere, and I feel more suffering is to come from all these poor choices that are being made.

I humbly request a time from each of the two legged in this world to send a prayer to heal our precious Earth and the balance of Mni wic'oni to be restored. Begin to prepare in your homelands to unite -- All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer -- for the sake of Grandmother Earth, our source of life not a resource.

In a sacred hoop of life where there is no ending in no beginning. Chief Arvol Looking Horse 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe

Source: Last Real Indians

Today I'm translating a folk song in Ladino that has got me. You can listen to it here, sung beautifully by Françoise Atlan. It's called "This Mountain Before Me."

This mountain before me Catches alight and burns. It's there I lost my love. I sit and fall to weeping. The little jasmine tree I planted in my garden, I grew it, raised it up. Now only others enjoy it. I want to find out secrets, Those secrets of my life. The sky I want for paper, The sea I want for ink, Trees for quill pens, To write my misfortunes. No-one knows my pain, Not strangers nor family.

Original lyrics and translation notes under the cut.

Esta muntanya d’enfrente S’asiende i va kemando. Ayi perdi al mi amor, M’asento i vo yorando. Arvoliko de yasimin, Yo lo ensembrí en mi guerta. Yo lo kresi, lo engrandesi, Otros s’estan gozando. Sekretos kero deskuvrir, Sekretos de mi vida. El sielo kero por papel, La mar kero por tinta. Los arvoles por pendolas, Para eskrivir mis males, No ay ken sepa mi dolor, Ni ajenos ni parientes.

It's a pretty straightforward one, honestly, and it helps that I found a Spanish translation online. And though I can't guarantee that expressions are used the same way in Spanish and Ladino, I've used Spanish as a guide where necessary. Mostly I wanted to share it here because the imagery fucking rules. One thing I really love is how opaque some of the metaphor is here. Are the mountain and the tree literal objects that exist? If so, what's the connection between them?

fall to weeping --- vo yorando/voy llorando as opposed to simply yoro; I think ir is being used here in the sense of beginning or becoming something. The same construction is used in the second line; I might have translated that as "catches alight and begins to burn" but I'm trying for a sort of scansion.

jasmine tree --- Atlan does not say "yasimin," but I have no idea what she's actually saying, and the lyrics I've found online said this.

raised it up --- my dictionary gives engrandecer as "to amplify, enlarge, magnify; exalt, extol; enhance." Kind of reminds me of the language in the second section of Kaddish! Interestingly the Spanish translator chose to render this as "floreció," ("it flourished") even when a cognate was available. Anyway I think this isn't just meant in the sense of literally growing it taller, but also making it beautiful and worthy of love.

only others --- it just says "others are enjoying it," so technically this could be the speaker saying that after she's raised the tree she can share it with everyone, but the bitter tone of the song suggests otherwise.

misfortunes --- definitely some ambiguity since the word being used here is males. It could mean the singer's misdeeds, ailments, or misfortunes. I love the idea of her feeling terrible guilt for something she's done and wanting to write it down, but I think the text definitely implies it's misfortunes.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse ...

Chief Arvol Looking Horse is the 19th generation keeper of Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the great Lakota Nation ...

"Earth is the source of life, not a resource."

May we all live in peace.

Photo from PaHaSa, South Dakota ...

NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE SACRED PIPE ✊🏼

The intricacies of belief surrounding the pipe itself cannot be summed up in a few words ... It is important to note, however, that each part of the pipe—stem, bowl, tobacco, breath, and smoke—is symbolic of the fundamental relationships among plants, animals, humans, elements, and spiritual beings that keep the cosmos in motion ... In pipe ceremonies, numerous pinches of tobacco signify prayers of blessing for each part of creation and the whole cosmic community. Thus the bowl of the pipe is filled symbolically with the whole sum of existence. As the tobacco is lit by the fire, inhaled and exhaled as smoke, these prayers of blessing become visible offerings. The pipe ceremony is so symbolically resonant for the Lakota that many Lakota people compare it to the Christian sacrament of Eucharist ...

The pipe ceremony provides the Lakota with the spiritual grounding and power for the negotiation of Native identity in the modern world. Among the Lakota and the other Native peoples who smoke the sacred pipe, this ceremony plays a crucial role in the struggle to survive under duress. Pipe ceremonies often anchor other traditional Lakota ceremonies, but they are performed, too, in nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, universities, protest gatherings, and political meetings. Lakota people are conscious that with each pipe ceremony they pray not only for themselves and their well being, but for all human beings and the whole of creation ... A'ho ✊🏼 ❤️

We the Lakota people have a prophecy about the white buffalo calf, and how that prophesy originated was that we have a sacred bundle, a sacred peace pipe, that was brought to us about 2,000 years ago by what we know as the White Buffalo Calf Woman.

The story goes that she appeared to two warriors at that time. These two warriors were out hunting buffalo, hunting for food in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota, and they saw a big body coming toward them. And they saw that it was a white buffalo calf. As it came closer to them, it turned into a beautiful young Indian girl.

At that time one of the warriors thought bad in his mind, and so the young girl told him to step forward. And when he did step forward, a black cloud came over his body, and when the black cloud disappeared, the warrior who had bad thoughts was left with no flesh or blood on his bones. The other warrior kneeled and began to pray. And when he prayed, the white buffalo calf who was now an Indian girl told him to go back to his people and warn them that in four days she was going to bring a sacred bundle.

So the warrior did as he was told. He went back to his people and he gathered all the elders and all the leaders and all the people in a circle and told them what she had instructed him to do. And sure enough, just as she said she would, on the fourth day she came. They say a cloud came down from the sky, and off of the cloud stepped the white buffalo calf. As it rolled onto the earth, the calf stood up and became this beautiful young woman who was carrying the sacred bundle in her hand.

And as she entered into the circle of the nation, she sang a sacred song and took the sacred bundle to the people who were there to take of her. She spent four days among our people and taught them about the sacred bundle, the meaning of it. And she taught them seven sacred ceremonies: one of them was the sweat lodge, or the purification ceremony. One of them was the naming ceremony, child naming. The third was the healing ceremony. The fourth one was the making of relatives or the adoption ceremony. The fifth one was the marriage ceremony. The sixth one was the vision quest. And the seventh was the sundance ceremony, the people’s ceremony for all of the nation.

She brought us these seven sacred ceremonies and taught our people the songs and the traditional ways. And she instructed our people that as long as we performed these ceremonies we would always remain caretakers and guardians of sacred land. She told us that as long as we took care of it and respected it that our people would never die and would always live.

When she was done teaching all our people, she left the way she came. She went out of the circle, and as she was leaving she turned and told our people that she would return one day for the sacred bundle. And she left the sacred bundle, which we still have to this very day. And the sacred bundle is known as the White Buffalo Calf Pipe because it was brought by the White Buffalo Calf Woman. It is kept in a sacred place on the Cheyenne Indian reservation in South Dakota. it’s kept by a man who is known as the keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, and his name is Arvol Looking Horse.

And when she promised to return again, she made some prophesies at that time ….One of those prophesies was that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that it would be near the time when she would return again to purify the world. What she meant by that was that she would bring back harmony again and balance, spiritually.

A very punchy Ajella for Kevinsano over on Twitter!

Yet more 2020 art. We're getting through it!

A Revy Arvol for the Day

russian forenames and cities + roman place names BUT including "a"

Abaga Abagory Abain Abidny Abium Abnyak Aborov Aborsk Abriye Abury Abytki Acaea Acansk Accan Aceriae Adinsk Adynsk Afonnov Aforov Agacha Agadom Agaglia Agals Agalù Agari Agarioz Agasnom Agata Agavip Agilkov Aglensk Agnia Agnium Agrassk Agryari Alabria Alcae Alcan Alerna Aleya Alimol Alium Alizovo Allia Alovo Alsky Amysk Angrad Aninsk Anozavl Anskovo Antinsk Apionsk Aporin Apytki Aquinsk Arimir Ariysha Arkhov Arnovsk Arovka Arrinsk Artin Arurav Arvol Ashim Ashva Asinst Aslay Asnoly Asoch Asulov Ataysk Atorsk Ausull Avalum Avdaca Avdavil Avderta Avdima Avdimry Avdinsk Avdis Avdom Avena Avetsk Avichi Avigal Avinov Avinsk Avisk Avkalts Avladsk Avlexey Avlov Avlovo Avlyarg Avressk Avrov Avsky Avvalia Aznem Azyaria Babrsk Bakhov Bakhovo Bakopan Balavsk Balensk Balovo Barsk Battely Baysk Berkhva Binaid Blugola Boria Borra Bovdoma Bryusma Bugadan Burae Burmeia Burona Butsa Buzna Caeap Caeshli Caetsk Caevsk Camsk Camyzra Carkhny Catano Catom Chaysov Chevan Chirat Chkash Chnya Chnyan Chugay Chukha Chulan Chyoray Clansk Corla Dainka Dakha Dakir Dalek Dalen Dalogo Damyzhi Dandri Danta Dantim Dataria Dedae Deliba Dinairy Dionae Diyar Dmica Doreka Dubay Dudonna Dunya Duria Durna Ebaly Elnekha Ertary Fanov Fansk Fansta Furasno Gadan Gafim Galsk Gaplyan Gatka Gdalma Geliana Gepota Glipat Golka Gonogda Grair Gransk Grasim Graysk Gubakov Gudnya Gukhtia Gukhva Gulkali Ilinada Istasno Istia Ivalù Ivaysk Kacheka Kachi Kalum Kamuny Kamytin Karolsk Karom Karpuk Karsk Katal Katiant Katkada Katrod Kayevsk Khakhta Khana Kholyan Kinan Kiroma Klishan Komay Konia Kopasno Koradsk Kotsar Kovalsk Kovka Koyass Koyazhi Kozhna Krabdak Kranart Krashin Kunaz Kuray Kutna Lachiy Lakarae Lapyov Latavil Lavaye Lavia Lekana Lenka Lexansk Lgoza Lutansk Lyankal Lyaril Lyuza Madorsk Magarsk Maglish Magush Makhov Makhty Maksium Mamana Mamysk Mangert Mansk Marsk Mazhak Mentayk Mikoyan Minavsk Mosibak Murav Mysenka Mytansk Nadny Nadsk Naforsk Nakonia Namensk Nariv Natetsk Nazhi Nazim Nicat Noalaga Nogra Nomna Novarya Novoa Nyalya Nyaza Odina Okhayma Olzavy Opotkal Oshvar Osnorna Padim Panza Pasny Petan Petsay Petura Polman Polya Poria Prach Pramsk Priae Psenzha Pugana Pusha Pustada Pyary Pyazrae Pytva Rachi Rachin Ransk Ranton Rasinsk Rasno Reuta Rosta Rovia Ryard Rybna Ryuna Safimay Salavia Saldov Samen Sanov Santium Sargan Sarino Saroney Sarsk Sarsky Sartema Sebora Semyan Senadol Senapa Shakhov Shalan Shapasy Sharas Shcha Shkamur Shlia Shtya Sivarsk Slach Slatay Slyarim Snodan Soboyar Solan Solla Sosta Sreya Stansk Stinta Strenak Stronna Surae Suraza Surta Taben Talmsky Talsk Tamboga Tamedul Tantaye Tardar Taverna Tavla Tislavo Togorna Tomaga Torista Tovka Tropia Tsina Turadny Tvica Tyubia Ucharsk Udimar Ugacel Ukhari Ulluza Ulyukan Ushima Ustay Valadny Valae Vanarsk Vandya Vantis Varoks Vartsk Vayev Vaysk Vekara Veria Vetyan Vicia Vidoma Vikhano Virecha Vladima Vlakhi Vlyubak Voscia Voteria Vudalsk Vyara Vyazov Vyazy Vytka Yansk Yaran Yariysh Yatayl Yazinad Yazybny Yekach Yekarsk Yelaks Yestay Yevay Yevkali Yuzar Zameso Zanazh Zania Zaorkh Zavorsk Zheka Zhnya Zlyansk Znaes Zveleka Zvetlya