#wupatki

[flippantsmeagol]

That wonderful, strange green glow.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[wandering-jana]

Wupatki, which had more than 100 rooms, complete with community room and ballcourt (last photo).

Found on Public land: Wupatki National Monument, Arizona

2018

[whencyclopedia]

The Kachina (also “Katsina”) cult refers to the specific religious practices centered on the kachina, which is a spiritual entity and divine messenger of the Puebloan peoples as well as the Hopi, Zuni, Tewa, and Keresan tribes in what is the present-day Southwestern United States. The Kachina cult emerged under mysterious circumstances in the desert Southwest after a period of profound social, cultural, and religious turmoil in either the late 14th or early 15th centuries CE, following the abandonment of centers like Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Wupatki, and Canyon de Chelly. The exact origins of the Kachina cult remain the subject of fierce, scholarly debates. Despite the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and Christian missionaries in the region during the 16th century CE, the Hopi and the Zuñi peoples were able to maintain their temporal and religious freedoms, ensuring that the Kachina cult has survived and flourished well into modern times.

[americasgreatoutdoors]

Last light falls across the Painted Desert. A window in the Wupatki Pueblo, reveals stories from the past.  

Visiting Wupatki National Monument in Arizona leaves one in awe of those who once lived there. The Hopi call these pueblos "The footprints of our ancestors." Though no longer inhabited, these stone homes still hold the history of today’s Pueblo people.

Photo by Brad Sutton. Photo description: A sunset colored sky with clouds sits behind the shadowed remains of an old stone home.

[youneedone2]

Wupatki by Thomas Ferullo

[fatchance]

Masonry at Wupatki—the Tall House.

At Wupatki National Monument, Coconino County, Arizona.

[anthonybeyer]

Trail of the Ancients . Citadel Pueblo by twogiraffe https://flic.kr/p/2iD9vmj Anthony Beyer