{"id":1408,"date":"2013-01-14T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:57:17","slug":"gobernador-knob-navajo-sacred-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/gobernador-knob-navajo-sacred-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gobernador Knob – Navajo Sacred Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gobernador Knob (Ch\u2019\u00f3ol\u2019\u00ed\u2019\u00ed – Fir Mountain)<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Gobernador Knob the site where the Navajo’s Divine Goddess, Changing Woman (‘Asdz\u00e1\u00e1 Nadleehe), was found by Talking God (Haashch\u2019eelti\u2019i) .<\/p>\n

The Navajo have many traditions relating to Gobernador Knob. Navajo beliefs say that it represents the “Heart” of Navajo Country<\/p>\n

Gobernador Knob also represents the outward look of the Male Hogan.<\/p>\n

The traditional Navajo ancestral home is the area encompassed by the four sacred mountains but it\u2019s \u201cheart\u201d is at Gobernador Knob, located near the north-east corner of the enlarged area of the map, where
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Gobernador Knob is a small hump on Spruce Mountain (or Fir Mountain), that rises about 90 to 100 feet from Spruce Hill, having an overall elevation of 8,000 feet. Gobernardor Knob rises above the high broken mesa countryside sloping west from the Continental Divide to the Largo Canyon,<\/p>\n

There are a number of identified Navajo remains in the vicinity of the Knob itself and the region is a part of the Din\u00e9tah (The original or old Navajo Country). At about 1921, Dr. Alfred V. Kidder of the Phillips-Andover Academy investigated what he believed to have been refugee sites of Puebloans fleeing Spanish vengeance during the troubled years during and following the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680.<\/p>\n

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The Four Navajo Sacred Mountains<\/h3>\n

Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini\u2019 \u2013 Dawn or White Shell Mountain \u2013 East<\/a>
\nMount Taylor (Tsoodzil \u2013 Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain) \u2013 South<\/a>
\nSan Francisco Peaks (Doko\u2019oosliid \u2013 Abalone Shell Mountain) \u2013 West<\/a>
\nMount Hesperus Dib\u00e9 Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) \u2013 Obsidian Mountain \u2013 North<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gobernador Knob (Ch\u2019\u00f3ol\u2019\u00ed\u2019\u00ed – Fir Mountain)   Gobernador Knob the site where the Navajo’s Divine Goddess, Changing Woman (‘Asdz\u00e1\u00e1 Nadleehe), was found by Talking God (Haashch\u2019eelti\u2019i) . The Navajo have many traditions relating to Gobernador Knob. Navajo beliefs say that it represents the “Heart” of Navajo Country Gobernador Knob also represents the outward look of […]<\/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":[526,525,527,502,38],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-mythology","tag-changing-woman","tag-gobernador-knob","tag-male-hogan","tag-navajo-sacred-mountain","tag-talking-god","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","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=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}