Discussion about Ceremony

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, feel free to discuss, ask questions and explore the deeper meanings of "the greatest novel in Native American literature".

the nuke as a symbol of the incoming new era, same with the yellow cake uranium mine

To be honest, Ceremony was my favorite book out of the three we read. One interesting symbol I kind of want some feedback on is the Mountain Lion. It was recurring and it seemed to be a pretty simple symbol for power but one of the things I kept asking myself was why it would be used by both things seen as good and evil. It was sort of weird. Also, the image of a fat belly seems to come up a lot. If I could get some feedback on those two things that would be great.