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Dowa Yalanne (Zuni: "Corn Mountain") is a steep mesa 3.1 miles (5 km) southeast of the present Pueblo of Zuni, on the Zuni Indian Reservation.Plainly visible from the Zuni Pueblo, the mesa is located in McKinley County, New Mexico, [3] and has an elevation of 7,274 feet (2,217 m).
The Zia Sun Symbol is featured on the New Mexico flag. The Zia regard the Sun as sacred. Their solar symbol, a red circle with groups of rays pointing in four directions, is painted on ceremonial vases, drawn on the ground around campfires, and used to introduce newborns to the Sun. Four is the sacred number of the Zia and can be found repeated ...
The New Mexico Environmental Department reports that Gulf "dewatered three aquifers through a series of groundwater withdrawal wells installed in the 1970s." Later Gulf engaged in a corporate merger with Chevron Resources Company to extract 675,000 tons of uranium ore which left behind 698,000 tons of radioactive tailings on the surface. [ 1 ]
Julyan, Robert (2006), The Mountains of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-3516-6 Lekson, Stephen H. (2004), "Architecture: The Central Matter of Chaco Canyon", in Nobel, David Grant (ed.), In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma , School of American Research Press, pp. 23–31 , ISBN 978-1-930618 ...
The Sandia Mountains (Southern Tiwa: Posu gai hoo-oo, Keres: Tsepe, Navajo: Dził Nááyisí; Tewa: O:ku:p’į, Northern Tiwa: Kep’íanenemą; Towa: Kiutawe, Zuni: Chibiya Yalanne) [1] are a mountain range located in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, immediately to the east of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a large concentration of pre-Columbian indigenous ruins of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash.
The wheels are generally considered to be sacred sites, connected in various ways to the builders' particular culture, lore and ceremonial ways. Other North American Indigenous peoples have made somewhat-similar petroforms , turtle-shaped stone piles with the legs, head, and tail pointing out the directions and aligned with astronomical events.
Pages in category "Sacred mountains of the United States" ... Sierra Blanca (New Mexico) Sierra Estrella; Mount Sill; South Mountains (Arizona) Spirit Mountain (Nevada)