Kapemni - Section 1

SECTION #1 of 9

Kapemni: First Definitions as applied with Sky Turtle(s) and Earthly Turtles(s)

Taku waŋ waŋkatu kiŋ de, taku waŋ makhata kiŋ de kiċhi iċhikhoyagya (iċhikhoyaka).

What is above, is connected to what is on earth (below).

New Lakota Dictionary

What is Kapemni?

...to kapemni?

The New Lakota dictionary (left) lists kapemni as: a twirling round and round [shape].

Old Riggs Dictionary

Like tipi poles leaning and twisting and circling together...both sunwise and counter-sunwise (clock/counter-clockwise). See Section #4's Tipi Diagram

Note above from Old Riggs Dictionary: Like scissors dangling on a string!

(Rock's spinning scissors on digital paper?)

fist 2 fingers flat hand

like triangular hand game: rock-paper-scissors!

\\: Sky reflecting Earth reflecting :// ...ohiŋniyaŋ(always on&on)

\\:Kapemniyaŋ Ohiŋniyaŋ...∞...Ohiŋniyaŋ Kapemniyaŋ :// ...infinitely ohiŋniyaŋ...&infin...\infty...U+22E...

reflecting and/or mirroring each other like water (mni/nibi),

seeing from above to below and below to above.

quillwork example by webpage author... 2023 (uŋšhika first attempt!)

13 and 13 as 26? 26+1? 26 around 1 Center@x? ?@X 1 place for seeing 26 millenia all around and round?

Curley's orthography (since 1982) is based on the circular and/or circling/changing Sun and Moon.

"K A P"

"E" (circle x) to right --->

"MNI"

The figure eight shape is seen (asymmetrically) as the sun is measured over the course of a year. It is called the analemma.

https://solar-center.stanford.edu/art/analemma.html

Turtles as mirrored like Kapemni: Above and Below

See Earth Mother as Turtle Island (North America) below and

see Turtle Constellation(s) and or Lunations in Sky above...KAPEMNI mirroring example

Dakota Sky around sunset Jan. 20, 2025 with Saturn and Venus near Turtle Constellation and Jupiter near Bison head (Stellarium starlore, see below)

Five days and two hours later, see Snake in SE and Initipi (sweat lodge) in East and Mars up in Bear's Lodge (Gemini) (Stellarium)

Water is part of the Kapemni as the sun lifts it up 😎, and

gravity and Thunderbirds... bring it back down...over and over... ∞ohiŋniyaŋ(always on&on)

D/N/Lakota Is this your "cup of tea" or peżuta sapa (coffee ☕)

OR

Ojibwe/Anishinaabe makade-mashkikiwaaboo (coffee)?

We learn with our "heart" as well as our "mind",

so please keep your CUP or MUG unfilled, open to the mystery and wonder,

and ready and able to receive what might seem a bit unexpected at first...

or even at second...or third...!

Circling/Mirroring Kapemni

Turtles Above and Below...as places upon the Turtle Island Continent and in the Dakota Turtle 4-Star Constellation!

(Baseball Asterism in Pegasus/Andromeda)

https://www.astronomy.com/observing/play-ball-observe-the-great-square-of-pegasus-this-fall/

Great Values for Turtle Islanders (sweetgrass turtle gift by Isadore Toulouse of Gchi-Wiikwedoong)

The Drum connects our heart to the heartbeat of Mother Earth ---->

13 MOONS on Keya/Mikinaak's Back!

13 MOONS on

Dakota/Ojibwe

"turtle" words

Keya/Mikinaak's Back!

13 moons x 28 days/moon = 364 days

14 waxing (more light) + 14 waning (less light)