SECRET ALBUQUERQUE
Numbe Whageh
Our Center Place
LOCATION: Sculpture garden at the Albuquerque Museum.
Most of the museum garden is manicured lawn and sculptures. But follow the stone path into a secret place hidden down in the center of a circular path--Numbe Whageh.
From the beginning of time, life has swirled
within and around Numbe Whageh, our
Pueblo center place.
Clouds rise from mountain peaks into
billowing giants in the sky. Winds gather
from the four directions. Lightning and thunder
follow the clouds and smell of rain fills the air.
Drops of water soak the dry, cracked ground as
wet pebbles and rocks glisten with subtle
browns and greys. Small trickles of water
find their way around trees, boulders and stones
through Numbe Whageh.
Here birds, lizards and ants come to drink and live.
Pinons, chamisas and grasses sprout, grow and
send off seeds to sustain others and start life anew.
Cycles begin, continue and fade. It is out of this
moist center place that the Towa, the Pueblo people
emerged. From here, we, the Towa, know the clouds,
mountains, winds and all other creatures who swirl
with us. This is our world place. Here we see
beauty, feel love and know a sacred wholeness...
at Numbe Whageh, our center place.
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