Ochwiay Biano (Chief Mountain Lake) was an
elder of
Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking (Tiwa) Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico. The pueblos are considered to be one of the oldest ...
in
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
.
C. G. Jung, in his book ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'', recalls a conversation he had with Biano, which Jung reported as follows:
Later in Jung's 1925 visit, Biano taught Jung that his people, like the
Elongyi tribe of Kenya, rose in the morning and spit in their palms, thereby presenting their soul-stuff to the sun to welcome it in an expression of sympathetic magic. Jung marveled that the
Puebloans
The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Currently 100 pueblos are actively inhabited, among which Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Z ...
knew why they were there.
Notes
Works cited
*{{cite book , last=Hollis , first=James , year=2002 , title=The Archetypal Imagination , publisher=Texas A&M University Press
Pueblo people
20th-century Native Americans