Navajo (Diné) Knowledge of the Cosmos with Dr. David Begay, Indigenous Astronomer

For generations, Navajo (Diné) people have studied the sky and passed down its stories.
"Navajo star knowledge is based on a world view and cosmology significantly different from western academic astronomy. Navajo astronomy can best be understood within a much larger context of Navajo philosophy. The Navajo world view includes a holistic and ordered universe where everything is interrelated and all the pieces of the universe are enfolded within the whole. At the same time every piece contains the entire universe, creating a network of relationships and processes in constant flux. Unlike western astronomy, traditional Navajo astronomy is highly spiritual in accordance with a world view where everything is considered living and sacred. "
- Nancy C. Maryboy, Ph.D.,Indigenous Education Institute (IEI)
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[@chiclesirico2580]

I feel so lucky and blessed to listen to my elders in this way. I’d prefer it was in person, but this is second best. I am very grateful for you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@crystaldawn8875]

As a little girl I instinctively knew we came from the stars as children we are pure and it seems the knowing are just natural. I hope anyone reading this never loses touch with that pure inner child and never lose your sense of wonder and imagination 🌟 🌞 ☀️

[@winonagoldenblood5952]

Feeling the same sister. 🌟

[@websurfer5772]

Your username is cool. I'll never lose my connection to nature and the divine spirit that encompasses everything. It should be even more awesome to experience after this lifetime too. 🌃

[@peaceleader7315]

Can we get married 😍.. and teaches them about science and not religion 🙏.. 😊.. Can we.. ?

[@peaceleader7315]

Our children..😊.

[@tomemody6685]

That is a beautiful observation. I am with you too star child. …..Tom

[@GretchenMarie]

I have been hoping to come across the knowledge of these beautiful beautiful people!!!! I've wanted to go live and just listen to all the wisdom they've held close and kept strong among their people!! How absolutely beautiful is that!!! THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING OTHERS who weren't able to have access to this information be able to hear it!! Many many thanks!! I appreciate and honor you all!!

[@websurfer5772]

I feel the same way.

[@mickbray4195]

Thank you for sharing a place of peace in this chaotic world we live in. I can speak with assurance that my Great grandmother was 1/2 Choctaw, her mother must have been on the "Trail of Tears." She lived to be 100 years old. My Grandma grew up on the Red River. My Mom was born in New Mexico. I always felt a closeness to the earth, now I know why. But, nobody ever talked about their heritage. I think for fear of reprisal and its still that way , today. That's why I feel safer talking about it here. This is a peaceful place, something we all deserve to come home, too.

[@lavernemoreno7168]

Yaaeetah, Axheha for great insights of Dine cosmo, nizonhi, nizonhi, nizonhi, nizonhi. After I listen to this, I made my morning prayer, with corn meal, and water.

[@savantianprince]

The Dine culture is beautiful

[@palmereldritch_6669]

I grew up in the Four Corners. While the Navajo people have no shortage of challenges, I will always have a fond place in my heart for Dine , their culture, and their ancestral lands. It's fun to learn about them.

[@johnhanson652]

Good hear bout our relationship in to be cosmos same as hatha yoga. ..sun and 🌙 🌝 moon is the eye love + respect to Navajo nation 😊😊😊

[@donaldmcdaniel3617]

The weather we have as far back as 6:01 6:01

[@polymathematics5837]

I greatly respect the Dine people and their wisdom. I would love to have Dine friends so I can become more like them.

[@kyledemontigny6153]

I’m a spiritual practitioner. I promise that’s what I discovered in my journeys. This knowledge is true, and we can still access this information on our own. Make that connection from the heart, and thats crystal or Christ consciousness. People of the land already had that connection long ago.

[@shasa8223]

The wisdom is just incredible. May these teachings and this language only grow in strength and spread throughout the world.

[@mrmcphilsconfidential8562]

My spirit always understands your words. They carry the message of the truth. My soul dwells with constant respect for the gift of the language.

[@jellymyroll795]

😢mi famila

[@Elazar40]

It's wonderful to be able to learn from the experience and wisdom of indigenous elders.

[@April-qe9ed]

When I was very young, I remember looking up in the sky and thinking "I am made from this" ... I remember seeing the 3 major stars from Orions Belt, and the 7 sisters in Pleadies galaxy. I always called it "The tiny dipper"

[@Koraeffect]

Wow my great grandpa said our Navajo name little star, as a child I thought it was last name or his name but he said “our Navajo name is little star” I wish I asked for more info….

[@schappaughn]

I enjoyed learning about the BASKET! Mother Earth, Father Sky

[@-Atmos1]

Like the Turquoise bracelet & very wise words . The Mycelium knows who walks on the ground from their foot step .

[@tatiananaugolnykh]

I MAKE A WISH FOR THE WISDOM NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN, SO THE NEW GENERATION IS NOT DISCONNECTED FROM NATURE !

[@chiclesirico2580]

Same❤❤❤

[@annastory9957]

🙏💚✨️

[@gapsfire23]

Wonderful presentation. Ahéhee

[@jeromezwart9394]

AS HE IS THE SUN AS WE ARE ALSO MADE IN THE SUNS IMAGE OF THE SAME ELEMENTS AND LIVING WATER 💦 AND SPIRIT. ❤❤❤❤

[@roshanacoy5303]

THANK YOU. A little basket sits with me. Thank for the teaching, now this little basket has more depth. See you in the rainbow. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kendrazoa958]

Wow, such precious wisdom and knowledge woven into small basket found in each Dine (Navajo) home. Strikes me that similar cosmic information was recorded in the mysterious giant stone megaliths found all over the world from thousands of years ago. Curious that Dine distilled this wisdom into a lightweight easily portable basket that only required labor of one person and easily found natural grasses. Deep appreciation for your sharing these insights with us.

[@cosmicman621]

...all Reality woven into a Basket...Beautiful

[@incognitoalias2808]

Thanks for the Enlightenment......🌄✨🌠🌌🌜🌾☘🌊

[@JohnMelland]

2 Full eclipses, and when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to go outside to see. I watched it on tv. ☻😇

[@lauranicholls9421]

Thanks for sharing. I love learning about the cosmos I love your setting. It looks so peaceful. And serene..☀️

[@theLunaMystic]

Thanks so much for sharing! It all makes sense to me. I’ve always been drawn to these kind of teachings, especially when they talk about the universe. I wish you much love and respect ❤

[@shannonmisquadis]

Miigwech for this knowledge. Beautiful words of wisdom and love.

[@meunierbr]

It makes my heart glad to hear your words. These are the things that we are told, and so they should be honored. This is the beauty way, and you are following it. Thank you for what you say.

[@carlosxolotl1318]

Thank you elder for you’re sacred knowledge I love to hear different stories of creation of different nations hopefully the youth starts getting into this beautiful knowledge

[@angiepurpleyoda]

This explanation blew my mind. I’m so grateful to have experienced this video and the knowledge given. Thank you for sharing!

[@RockHillBigfoot]

Absolutely amazing how something so seemingly simple like a basket can contain the knowledge of the stars and the universe. Thank you for sharing this wisdom.

[@davischo1]

Hey! Some years ago I write a song and a phrase I write was a time to hear the Shenyang River ( shiny ) at that time I was in love ( and still ) with the native culture s .. ( I m battling with a heavy depression ) I miss being connected with Mother Earth and nature

[@generator6946]

Some nice spring day take the whole day, dawn to dusk, and just sit and watch nature work. There is a rhythm and a very pronounced schedule throughout the day. When one period is over another appropriate period starts. Have some water and light food available so you don’t miss anything!

[@whatupplaya7951]

Get out and embrace Her for All She Is😊 guaranteed you'll feel better ❤

[@spg1674]

Thank you for this beautiful teaching. Gratitude and Respect to the Navajo Nation and all the Indigenous Peoples all over the planet who have endured the barbaric ignorance of hungry ghosts. Thank you for your teachings to help guide us forward in reconnecting with our Soul's and our True Reason for being..🙏❤️🦋

[@ursalaminor8457]

Thank you for bringing us back to these awesome truths so incredibly important! Most people dont realize “church” is a way to gather people indoors to tax them. Jesus did not belong to church nor advocate it yet indoor life by paper and clock is what’s now interpreted as the masters word rather than greater, older and naturally related wonders truths words and a (persecuted) vantage point, though rooted in common sense for the real dreamers and potential seers of the way to illumination and goodness on earth. Aho thank you brother..kind elder best to you all. 🌞🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻⭐️

[@bubbles_mc_rainbow]

The most positive comment section 🙏🏼 we are all here to just learn and absorb the teachings and that is glorious to me.

[@cecileroy557]

Fascinating - thank you!!

[@marlenaforbes-reidy9876]

Thank you for sharing your valuable teachings and cosmic knowledge to humanity, I always knew we came from stars such as the Pliedies, Archtuius, Andromeda, Orion, The Sun and many other stars and Galaxies. Love and Blessings in all your do. 💖🙏🌍💖🌹💖🌵💖⭐️💖

[@dianesmith8183]

Thank you for sharing these understandings. Much respect.

[@sii6531]

Thank you ✨. Presious video 💗

[@RoseLangaard]

Awesome thanks 👍🏾👍🏾

[@klauspresser4176]

Hello my Friend, Thank you so much for your great Video Work 😊 I Love it to learn so much from your great Culture . 1000 Times the best greetings from Germany. Klaus from Kaiserslautern , Stay Calm 😊

[@toniagerardo9919]

Thank you! Beauty is this knowledge, such beauty in creation. I have no other word than beauty. As an astrologer, I appreciate this extra. Thank you again.

[@glorywipfli781]

Thank you for sharing the knowledge of your People. Much appreciated and respected.

[@kathiarledge9275]

The ancient knowledge must be preserved. THANKYOU.

[@justinedelfino8276]

Amazing.. thank you so much for sharing this information. I feel so much love and reverence for the Dine teachings, people and ways.

[@viccispider4667]

Very insightful😊 enjoyed your video thank u for sharing 😊

[@Andre-zb9zb]

Precious teachings Thank you! 🌎🔥🌌

[@robertdeatrick3391]

Thank you for sharing your ancient knowledge.

[@nancyhamer949]

Thank you for these beautiful and inspiring metaphors. A sacred embrace of life and connectivity.

[@alexgabriel5423]

Many Grateful Thanks for Producing such a valuable lesson about how Man fits in the universe. Special thanks for showing astronomy elements linked to Man s existence and in particular the Diné Tradition & Knowledge. I found this Great Lesson the Most Valuable information on KZbin thus far. It sheds light on very many solar cultures of the World. Thank You Dr Begay!

[@lesliechristensen6974]

I love the seven points on that star.

[@elisaramirez4788]

awesome explanation

[@audemontmorency3983]

Thank you for sharing❤😊

[@Incorruptus1]

Thank you for teaching us Sir. Thank you for uploading. I add this, if I may speak: "Sometimes I wonder why translation devices like Google Translate and Bing Translate, do not cover languages like those of all of us speak, and like you as group of equal humans, called the Diné. I know not all is translate-able from your language, but we can overcome that, by describing it as you do. Thank you. We need to be able to translate your language, that should be addressed, so hereby". Love, strength and long life for you and yours.

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

Google is shite. And the fact that it can't translate beautiful indigenous languages comes down to my first part of comment. We come from the stars and light.. absolutely beautiful ❤️ Has anyone in the comment section ever had dream visitations from spheres of light? I have 3 times and just want to find out everything I can.. thanks for anyone who's has any info.

[@Incorruptus1]

I did saw a red sphere when I was about 8 years old, and it was over the agricultural fields behind our home. It stayed there going straight up and down about a height of about 50-75 meters and down at about 5 - 20 meters from the ground, it went up and down and this endured for about an hour maybe slightly less. And than I never saw it leave since I was I think getting something and eating a bit, but when I checked again it was gone, estimating it must have stayed there for about an hour. But I never saw it multiple times, it was the only time I ever saw a sphere of bright red very light. And I never had dreams about spherical lights. Good luck with your research and questionings, have a nice day.@@foreveryactionthereisacons1683

[@dboydboy1000]

I have seen the green “falling star.” These are much lower in altitude than the average shooting star. They appear as they are going to make a huge crashing sound but just as they are about to land they disappear. I’ve seen these on 3 different occasions.

[@russbuford8392]

Such Eurocentric reductionist thinking dismisses fundamental relations with the land that survive solely through reciprocally participating in an oral history. Look to the land not a description of the land to engage the narrative.

[@lailalivsdatter6660]

I understand when you explain things. I have heard so many times. It is beautiful❤

[@starlight8298]

Thanks for sharing , Big Love from down under ,. If I pitch a tipi in Australia , being the southern hemisphere , when I enter the tipi for eg , would I move in a clockwise direction still ? Following the suns path , no I think it’s the opposite for us hay . The sun still rises in the east , but it moves anti clockwise , through the day to set in the west . Like wise as I observe your teaching , I think our observation of the stars movement , is in a clockwise direction , opposite to the Dine Navaho ways . Interesting hay , World Peace ✌

[@patriciasheldon6273]

Thank you for sharing

[@velmawilliams6944]

Thank you so much for sharing this information, it's good to listen to the wisdom of the wise ones, may you always be blessed.

[@karisteinbacher4535]

Thankyou so much for sharing .

[@CharlotteKnight-fh6tx]

Thanks for sharing.❤

[@VioletLove333]

Thanks for sharing your beautiful antient knowledge! Your words have touch my heart.

[@BobbyCharlz]

Blew my mind 🤯. Thank you for sharing!

[@deborahriley1166]

Thank you 🙏☯️🙏

[@carleey9513]

I am not from the US. Beautiful information given here by this gentleman. Where is this filmed in the US…….totally awesome location.

[@flauschiiiful]

Monument valley in Utah/ Arizona

[@PHanomaly]

Omg, seriously this is the center of beautiful land youve never known, that stretches west to the Hopis and Grand Canyon, north to beautiful 4 corners, up the peaks of Utah schools of deer, to the canyonland of colored rock to Moab and its Arches. Spider Rock, Petrified Forest, Badlands, and so much more.

[@sharisimonehampton5434]

Such a wonderful and beautifully created basket! I loved learning this lesson. Thank you, sir. I felt that connection that I am a part of. 😉👍♥️🎄

[@williamknopic7915]

I remember coming to Earth from the stars. And chose which time period as well as who my parents would be. All of my family has long passed but my parents raised me well. I came into this world without anyone or anything and will leave the same way. You will too.

[@CarmenZepeda-yu5no]

Stardseed legend, find about it. 💓✨

[@user-io1bo5gr2m]

7:09 There is a creation story I once heard! I do not remember the tribal origin, if it was Navaho, Hopi, or Apache! That there is a very massive devine spider who weaves the net of the universe, she is the Momma of the web who meticulously sets the stars, moons, and planets to her order of the universe.

[@DonSakal]

Thank you. Walk in Spirit.

[@chuckbeattyo]

Thankyou for sharing the knowledge.

[@coranova]

Thank you for your time🌷

[@csluau5913]

When I take this and put this together with some of the things, said, by other people like elder Walter Brown, it makes up a really beautiful picture of the cosmos from the point of view of the D’ineh. There are definitely some similarities with some of the other indigenous peoples and first nations. It also lends itself to some of the sacred symbolism of things like special jewelry, and even the ancient structures and earthworks that have been left behind for us to look at and understand in North America.the Lakota people also have a deep understanding of the cosmos and the cosmological mirror of the world above and the world below..

[@anthonycotter1927]

Turning the bowl on its lip puts Polaris (the Pole Star) pointing directly north overhead. This North Star stays fixed in this bowl or Firmament. The rest of the stars like he says … the Milky Way drifting at 15 degrees overhead - and the very end of the video he turns the bowl (Firmament) upside down.. Earth is stationary. We both know Earth is NOT a spinning water ball in “outer-space”

[@jefffoley2331]

Thank you for sharing, these understandings are needed more than ever, I need to be reminded more than ever, Thank you

[@FIGSANE]

I've recently been the listening to Navajon Traditional Teachings Channel Before I put it on just to listen to it But now I get the sense that so much of their tradition translates to how people should conduct themselves in general It's refreshing to listen the Diné speak

[@PHanomaly]

I have to say all indigenous people make perfect sense in their various understanding of the universe around us. They are rooted in everything. They don't sound like people trying to sell you their Holy Instruction Manual. They respect each to have his own and comes from long ago and lives in their heart and soul.

[@lilithempire1975]

Thank you

[@vladracul40]

My heart ❤️ is you and your people 💓

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

INTERESTING THANK YOU

[@lindasands1433]

I find it easy to believe that mesas are the remnants of ancient trees, tha appropriate sizes for when giants were on Earth ❤

[@ambermackay921]

Beautiful !

[@connieb.475]

Thank you, Dr. Begay.

[@alexblue6991]

What a beautiful place I from Scotland whare its raining and cold most days

[@lulpeyote2001]

Growing up, I've always felt like I had a connection with the stars. When I was younger I never really learned about the traditional ways until I was older (16-18). That's when I first learned about Ye'ii Bi Cheii; from there I started to see alot more shooting stars plus these really surreal visions from time to time. Especially the number 4. I honestly thought I was going crazy for a second, until I did some research. from there it all came full circle. I forgot to mention that I also had a vision on my 21st birthday where I was face to face with a yeíí, in between us was a fire sorta like a ceremony but I couldn't really if it was one or not cause I haven't been home in so long...

[@simonealdrich5162]

Blessings. Thankyou.

[@OfTheVoid]

This is such and amazing explanation

[@OfTheVoid]

Christianity says the "Son of Man" is the giver of life. In Ojibwe, "giiziis" is the word for the Sun of humankind.

[@studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615]

HELLO FROM TASMANIA😁🙏

[@robhead22]

Thank you! I truly appreciate hearing this ancient knowledge! Thank you!

[@endlessknight7462]

Thank You for sharing 😇

[@WACkZerden]

Thank you for sharing , this is a beautiful video 🏜️

[@meunierbr]

I see other entries here about the res. I too am familiar with the four corners area. There are not many of us left. I think the uranium mining took many of our men. Still. The people that are there are the sweetest and most wonderful people that I know. When life permits, I travel to the people to see if I can help with whatever is going on. Sometimes it is a simple roof repair, sometimes it is a crazy automobile problem. Whatever. I just love the people.

[@Faus4us_Official]

Thank you for sharing this brother.

[@ab222]

Thank you 💜

[@treetiphere3698]

Deep wisdom. Thanks so much for sharing ☀

[@janakasanjaya6926]

Thank you for the video clip

[@user-dc4tt8nt3x]

Thank you for this wonderful teaching..very nice words...

[@moyolenovo3914]

Thank you Sir.

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Thank you 😊❤🙏💝

[@Evaaugustine97]

Thank you so much

[@guillermojjmorales]

THANK YOU

[@emilyh4043]

Thank you ❤🎉

[@AlanShirtsink]

Mahalo nui loa for the teachings

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

Thank you for sharing.