Emergence Into Our Dark World

I am vaguely familiar with the Native American’s stories of their emergence; one of my favorite, the Hopi’s emergence into our world from Ribbon Falls in the Grand Canyon. Recently, Sally and I had visited the V Bar V Heritage Sight and the petroglyphs nearby, and we were fortunate to have a group of tourist’s arrive led by an archeologist knowledgeable about these petroglyphs. He explained the many possible meanings of what we were looking at; as well as, the possible meaning of this rock figure in the photograph, the emergence of the Sinaqua into the world. Fascinated by this I looked around me at the terrain; to be certain, life for the Sinaqua between AD 1150 and 1400 would be a challenge to farm, hunt, and exist in this neck of the woods of Arizona. However, I wondered giving the state of our world today, would the Sinaqua’s Deity ‘Emergence Into Our Dark World’?