{"id":294,"date":"2012-08-03T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-08-03T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T00:20:05","slug":"talking-god-painting-by-david-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/talking-god-painting-by-david-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking God Painting by David John"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_295\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/blog\/talking-god-painting-by-david-john\/talking-god-by-david-john\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-295\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295 \" title=\"Talking God by David John - Navajo\" src=\"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Talking-God-by-David-John.jpg\" alt=\"Talking God by David John - Navajo\" width=\"443\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking God by David John &#8211; Navajo<br \/>Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Navajo creation story \u2013 the Talking God<br \/>\nThis, the Talking God, is the chief character in Navajo mythology. In the rites in which personated deities minister to a suffering patient this character invariably leads, carrying a four-piece folding wand, bala\u00adl, and uttering a peculiar cry.<\/p>\n<p>As yet there was neither sun nor moon to shed light, only dawn, circling the horizon in the four colors \u201dwhite in the east, blue in the south, yellow in the west, and black in the north. Deeming it necessary that they should have light to brighten the world, and warmth for the corn and the grass, on their return to the earth\u2019s center one of the chiefs made a speech advocating the creation of a sun and a moon.<br \/>\nMore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-the-talking-god\/\">Navajo creation story \u2013 the Talking God<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-the-first-world-nihodilhil-black-world\/\">Navajo creation story \u2013 The First World \u201cNihodilhil\u201d (Black World)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-nihodootlizh-second-world-blue-world\/\">Navajo creation story \u2013 Nihodootlizh \u2013 Second World (Blue World)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-the-third-yellow-world\/\">Navajo creation story \u2013 Nihaltsoh -The third World (Yellow World)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-nihalgai-the-glittering-or-white-world\/\">Navajo creation story \u2013 Nihalgai \u2013 The Glittering or White World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/navajo-creation-story-2-house-god\/\">Navajo Creation Story \u2013 House God<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navajo creation story \u2013 the Talking God This, the Talking God, is the chief character in Navajo mythology. In the rites in which personated deities minister to a suffering patient this character invariably leads, carrying a four-piece folding wand, bala\u00adl, and uttering a peculiar cry. As yet there was neither sun nor moon to shed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[9,10,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajo-arts.com\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}