So much has been written in blogs lately of this faith and that faith. I for one DO NOT wish to persuade anyone that what they are believing OR ..NOT believing is ...wrong.
I do not say my way of thinking is ..right. I acknowledge the Creator knows the BEST way to approach each person to give EACH the opportunity to be
THEIR HIGHEST AND BEST SELVES.
Having said this I would like to do a few blogs on how the SHAMANIC cultures of the Native American EXPERIENCE the creator and creation through their poetry.
The Tewa (or Tano) are a linguistic group of Pueblo American Indians who speak the Tewa language and share the Pueblo culture. Their homelands are on or near the Rio Grande in New Mexico north of Santa Fe.The Arizona Tewa, descendants of those who fled the Second Pueblo Revolt of 1680-1692, live on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, mostly in Tewa Village and Polacca on the First Mesa.
Tewa (also known as Tano) is one of five Tanoan languages spoken by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. Though these five languages are closely related, speakers of one cannot fully understand speakers of another (similar to German and English speakers). The six Tewa-speaking pueblos are Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, and Tesuque.
Tewa Poem
"Song of the Sky Loom"
Gloria Levitas, Frank R. Vivelo, & Jacqueline j. Vivelo
American Prose and Poetry: We Wait in Darkness, 1974
Mother Earth Father Sky by Susan Seddon Boulet
O Mother the Earth, O Our Father the sky
Your children are we and with tired backs
We bring you gifts of love.
Then weave for us a garment of brightness
May the warp be the white light of morning
May the weft be the red light of evening
May the fringes be the falling rain
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness
That we may walk fittly where grass is green
O Mother the Earth, O Father the sky.
If we choice to consider that we in fact do not have dominion over the earth and that we are part of the larger Creation..Creator..would we not..perhaps live our lifes honoring each entity within it as necessary, usefull and priceless to the Creator. THOUGHTS?