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Desert Oracle Radio

Huehuecoyotl & the Canine Gods

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Places & Travel, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9852 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Looking for God in the world? Watch the coyote. Huehuecoyotl, that’s its Holy name. Old, old coyote. Lord of the arts, god of music and dance, our guide through adolescence and onward to adulthood. King of the Prank, patron of the promiscuous, lord of the Friday night party. Canis latrans is the new name, from the 1800s. Coyotl is the ancient American name.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California,

0:11.0

now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

0:17.3

Night has fallen on the desert.

0:21.9

Getting back real early now.

0:25.9

Like the daytime never had a chance.

0:34.5

Welcome to Desert Oracle Radio, which broadcasts from Joshua Tree, just like the robot ladies said.

0:47.2

But what does anybody even mean when they say that?

0:53.9

In the autumn of our solar year

0:58.5

two thousand and twenty one if you If you live over in 29 Palms,

1:17.9

Joshua Tree is both the name of the National Park

1:21.5

that has its headquarters in 29

1:23.8

and the unincorporated rectangle of Desert one over before Yucca Valley with the National Park Boundary on the south end

1:34.3

and the Marine Base to the north.

1:42.3

And it's the name of a Yucca tree that does not grow in 29 palms really because it's outside the higher altitude and slightly cooler and wetter joshua tree zone

1:56.5

you know it when you see it

2:01.9

when you're in the zone

2:05.5

because in the zone

2:09.3

because in the zone

2:13.8

there are Joshua trees

2:16.4

beyond the zone there are Joshua trees beyond the zone

2:21.2

they are only there through accident

2:24.9

or oddity

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