{"id":1378,"date":"2013-01-10T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:13:45","slug":"cougar-nashdoitsoh-navajo-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/cougar-nashdoitsoh-navajo-protector\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar – N\u00e1shd\u00f3\u00edtsoh Navajo Protector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Changing woman gave Hon\u00e1gh\u00e1\u00e1hnii – One Walks Around You Clan, Cougar\u00a0or\u00a0Mountain Lion, (N\u00e1shd\u00f3\u00edtsoh) as their symbol of protection & healing. Ceremonies & songs tell of the mountain lion’s medicinal powers.<\/p>\n

Cougar<\/strong>\u00a0was sent to guard Turquoise Girl on Mount Taylor<\/strong> (Tsoozil) Navajo Sacred Mountain of the South<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cougar<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Photo by Harold Carey Jr. at\u00a0Navajo Nation Zoo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Its eyes are able to see evil in the darkness. The Hon\u00e1gh\u00e1\u00e1hnii name may have been given to them by the Apache, meaning “One Walks Around You Clan.” Or it may have originated from the custom of leaving a warrior to walk around while others slept at night.<\/p>\n

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Changing woman gave Hon\u00e1gh\u00e1\u00e1hnii – One Walks Around You Clan, Cougar\u00a0or\u00a0Mountain Lion, (N\u00e1shd\u00f3\u00edtsoh) as their symbol of protection & healing. Ceremonies & songs tell of the mountain lion’s medicinal powers. Cougar\u00a0was sent to guard Turquoise Girl on Mount Taylor (Tsoozil) Navajo Sacred Mountain of the South \u00a0Photo by Harold Carey Jr. at\u00a0Navajo Nation Zoo Its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[333,88,508,509,510,498],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-mythology","tag-cougar","tag-mount-taylor","tag-mountain-lion","tag-nashdoitsoh","tag-protector","tag-turquoise-girl","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}