I run into a horned toad while walking in the neighborhood area. It was a baby one on the middle of the road. It seemed to be waiting for me, as the baby horned toad didn’t scare me when I approached to him. I tool a bunch of pictures of him. He changed his pause a couple of times and allowed me to take pictures of him. It was an interesting experience. After came back from the walk, I took a look of the pictures of him. He stood up with his front legs raised and put his head toward the Sun. I felt he gave me a message to stand solidly and not to yield in to whatever I don’t agree.
I thought of my late Navajo dad and his late two brothers who were a former Navajo tribe president and a former Navajo Judge.
In Navajo creation story, there is a coyote who acts as a trick star and does a bunch of stupid actions coming from greedy and immatureness. A horned toad, on the other hand, acts as a grandfather and a symbol of a power of law, and who teaches a coyote logically and calmly that what a coyote has done was wrong. In Navajo philosophy, that the peace cannot exist without conflict. In other words, you have to fight in order to restore peace.
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