Strength of Life

by Vincent Green

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Strength of Life

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Vincent Green

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Photograph - Photography

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Detail from"The Passage," a public art installation in Chattanooga, TN, US memorializing the tragic "Trail of Tears," and the resulting suffering endured in the forced removal of the Cherokee tribes from that point west into Oklahoma. The tiled design is titled:
A-TLA-NI-GI-DA GV-HI-NI-DA or STRENGTH OF LIFE; Nashville II style - circa 1400 CE; From the Mississippian and early Proto-Historic periods, this stylized design is symbolic of the Cherokee's spiritual counter-clockwise Stomp dance around the sacred fire. The smoke from the fire rises upward to the Creator and carries with it songs and prayers for strength in their lives. It also represents the spirit rotation of the Milky Way and Earth's changing weather patterns. ; (curved swastica) http://www.moccasinbend.net/cita/thepassage/index.html

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August 5th, 2018

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