The Littlest Warrior Has Arrived
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Mountain Spirit, leader of the Mountain Spirits, your body is holy.
By means of it, make him well again.
Make his body like your own.
Make him strong again.
He wants to get up with all of his body.
For that reason, he is performing this ceremony,
Do that which he has asked of you.
Long ago, it seems you restored someone's legs and eyes for them.
This has been said.
In the same way, make him free again from disease.
That is why I am speaking to you.
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El Mundo de las Aztecas
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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
We believed that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree, though not necessarily a soul conscious of itself.
The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear, each is an embodied Force, and as such an object of reverence.
The Indian loved to come into sympathy and spiritual communion with his brothers of the animal kingdom, whose inarticulate souls had for him something of the sinless purity that we attribute to the innocent and irresponsible child.
He had faith in their instincts, as in a mysterious wisdom given from above; and while he humbly accepted the supposedly voluntary sacrifice of their bodies to preserve his own, he paid homage to their spirits in prescribed prayers and offerings.
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Antes de la Muerta
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The attitude of the Indian toward death, the test and background of life, is entirely consistent with his character and philosophy.
Death has no terrors for him; he meets it with simplicity and perfect calm, seeking only an honorable end as his last gift to his family and descendants.
Therefore, he courts death in battle; on the other hand, he would regard it as disgraceful to be killed in a private quarrel.
If one be dying at home, it is customary to carry his bed out of doors as the end approaches, that his spirit may pass under the open sky.
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El Fuerte Gurrero
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If you talk to the animals
they will talk with you
and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them
you will not know them,
and what you do not know
you will fear.
What one fears
one destroys.
Chief Dan George
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Vida En La Paz
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Mighty horse...power to run
Across the open plains,
Or to bring the vision of the shields
Dancing in purple dream rain...
The horse was a marvel to the Indian and came
to be regarded as sacred. It had a mysterious or
sacred character. The Indian often times referred
to the horse as the big dog or the sacred dog.
The ceremonial importance of horses is strong in
many cultures. In the Navajo Enemy Way ceremony,
which is used to rid someone who has come in contact
with the enemy of the evil, horses transport the sacred
staff that carries the evil away from the person. Horses
are the focus of many Plains ceremonies as well.
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