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Garden Countdown
Tom Watson
In the millennia before the Greeks traced images of their gods in the stars ancient Native Americans connected those same celestial dots to create their own heavenly images repre- senting the spirits of their lore.
The Greek’s saw their great hunter, Orion wielding a club, a fleece draped over his shoulder; three dis- tinctive stars forming his belt, another line of stars representing his sword.
Ojibwe and Dakota star gazers saw that same array of lights as a huge beast, with expansive ribs flaring out from its backbone (Orion’s belt to us). Out beyond it’s body, the Pleiades constella- tion, the “Seven Sisters, was the head of that same beast.. Sirius, the bright star in Orion, was considered the tail, and a marker along a great spiritual loop overhead.