more from "The Sacred Pipe"
"The sweat lodge is made from twelve or sixteen young willows, and these, too, have a lesson to teach us, for in the fall their leaves die and return to the earth, but in the spring they come to life again. So, too, men die but live again in the real world of Wakan-Tanka, where there is nothing but the spirits of all things; and this true life we may know here on earth if we purify our bodies and minds, thus coming closer to Wakan-Tanka, who is all-purity."
posted by melilotnfosco | 3:50 PM
4 Comments:
is the whole book this hard to read?
and what possessed you to read it in the first place?
it's kind of hard to read. mostly it's tedious. but there are good things in it, so someday i would like to read the whole thing. it's about 7 sacred rites of the sioux people, and i've read 2 and i think i'm going to take a break. and i was possessed to read it cu i was looking for something to read and it was on our shelf.
i'd assume dad got it from coco?
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