
Allan MacGillivray III
Anthropologist, charter member of Voces de Santa Fe.
Road to Tsegi
El Vaquerito
I've always wanted to and was encouraged to share my experience growing up in Santa Fe and environs of the Pecos wilderness during my childhood. In writing it I chose a child's voice in this story because of the innocence and awe that we all have, with just a bit shamanistic wisdom.
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Duncan and Pearl MacGillivray and the Eastern Navaho
The story of the MacGillivray clan in New Mexico.
By Allan MacGillivray III
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Skylarking: Rhymes for the Youthful
Jemez Feast Day of San Diego
Della MacGillivray and her 1910 Buick
CHIMAYO
I went to Rancho de Chimayo last sunday where I lad a chat with author, Patricia Trujillo-Olviedo and purchased her book; CHIMAYO. This pictorial essay of Chimayo gives one a feeling of the antiquity of the place and how through time Chimayo has retained its cultural roots. This richly illustrated book of authentic photographs of the periods mentioned is a kind of a "whos who" in architecture, agriculture, culninary arts, weaving and the spiritual tradition there through time within of the valley of which we all love. Of particular interest to me was the meaning of the reredos behind the altar at the Sanctuario.The main image in the center is Nuestro Senor Esquipulas the "Black Christ" of the Maya of Guatemala.
Trujlillo- Olviedo goes on to say that the Christo is hung on the "Maya Tree of Life", or World Tree Cross of the Maya which is unique to Mesoamerican cultures According to the late Linda Schele; the horizontal bar represents the ecliptic and the verticle bar the north south axis. According to Mayan myth The World Tree with the three hearth stones represented by stars in the Orion constellation. I recommend this book to the "Plebe" interested in the multi- cultural history of New Mexico.
Allan MacGillivray, III