Continuing my journey to the ancient places whose Ancestral Spirit have called to me.
This is Kinishba, an Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins located in Arizona and administred by the White Mountain Apache. Some people believe that this is one of the places visited in 1540 by an expedition led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado.
There’s a path from the parking lot out to the ruins, so it’s easily accessible although you do have to get permission from the Apache to visit. Like the other Ancestral Puebloan villages it was abandoned in the late 14th or early 15th century. It’s believed that up to 1,500 people lived here.
Walking through the ruins there is a sense of ‘foreverness’. The message I kept receiving was – the buildings may be falling down and the physical people have left, but we, the Spirits, still inhabit these ruins. Walk softly, be gentle with our home.
