5455 x 3532 px | 46,2 x 29,9 cm | 18,2 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
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San Gregorio de Abo Mission, Salinas Pueblo Missions, New Mexico, USA, United States, America
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On a wind swept pass to the Rio Grande Valley, the Mission of San Gregorio de Abo built with stone and adobe buttressing techniques unusual for 17th century New Mexico, looms above the landscape. A thriving pueblo community when the Spanish arrived in 1581, it was abandoned in 1675 due to Apache Indian raids, drought and famine. Kiva and Cross, Kachina and Christian, two religious cultures co-operate and clash at Abo Ruins, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico. A kiva is a room used by modern Puebloans for religious rituals, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies. Similar subterranean rooms are found among ruins in the American southwest, indicating ritual or cultural use by the ancient peoples of the region including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples, the Mogollon and the Hohokam. Those used by the ancient Pueblos of the Pueblo I Era and following, designated by the Pecos Classification system developed by archaeologists, were usually round, and generally believed to have been used for religious and other communal purposes. When designating an ancient room as a kiva, archaeologists make assumptions about the room's original functions and how those functions may be similar to or differ from kivas used in modern practice. The kachina belief system appears to have emerged in the Southwest at approximately AD 1250, while kiva like structures occurred much earlier. This suggests that the room's older functions may have been changed or adapted to suit the new religious practice.
