Center Fire (Petro-Person)

Center Fire (Petro-Person)Among other tribes and peoples who practice the same activity, the Din people of northern Arizona (otherwise known as Navajo people) create beautiful images using multiple colors of sand. These 'sand paintings' convey a wide variety of stories and concepts. In the middle of most of these sand paintings can be found the symbol for fire. Two logs stacked perpendicular to each other. The fire is at the middle of it all.

Light springs forth from my own heart during my journey

these indicators came in handy

In Meso-America

but hundreds of miles away in the mid-west plains area of the United States as well

In the deep center is the symbol for heart

The heart contains the symbol for peace

The interlocked (as if swirling together) lines represent treaty

" The "person" is in an attitude of extreme celebration and joy

and literally in the form of buildings

or the act of healing

one of the most iconic versions of which is even used on the flag for the state of New Mexico

" One arching horn on the head of a figure such as this represents "journey