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"HOW IT ALL BEGAN"
Topic Started: May 27 2006, 11:33 AM (161 Views)
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Learn now of the creation of a religion.
"Killing of The Children", a story of Seven Creeds, explains how it grew.
For those who seek the understanding of the vision this is how it came about.
For those who seek the understanding of the medicine wheel this is how it came about.
For those who seek to understand their relatives this is how it came about.

This is where it all comes from, the beginning of Native American culture.

When you begin to understand Native American culture you will begin to understand the meaning of why we speak in fiction and this story, "Killing of the Children", is the manner in which all things are explained. Through this, the understanding of what is truth and how that guides each individual begins. It is the individuality called free will, the essential center of the Medicine Wheel in a single, central spot that marks a creation point and the possibility to realize all the rest. It is at this center point revealing the importance of the individual that understanding exists.

LOOK AT THE SEVEN CREEDS MEDICINE WHEEL AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE

Travel by all the paths in the circle, they cross over and over again at the individual, for it is the individual who understands what is true, by this knowing what to do. It is the animal who is told what to do and to him understanding is without meaning. He can only grab and destroy or he must wait to speak or act after consulting his owner or feel the punishment.

This story was told to Mr. Iron Wing as a child. It tells how the eagle feather came into the path of those who sought to become human beings. He continues to pass it on as that is the way of his people. It has passed on to his people thru generation after generation and he is passing on to you.

Long ago when the people were beginning to gain the consciousness of a human being and knowing by this they were part of the Great Mystery, a Sioux man with the name of a seeker set out on a vision quest so that he may learn of this Mystery that surrounds his people.

He sat for six days. The people in his band had talked many times before and they wondered out loud what is the meaning of life.

Contemplating these things each day he asked over and again about where they sat and what their existence meant. He created ideas and explanations, tested them and remade them many times over looking into this Great Mystery. He looked at himself and he questioned. He saw there within himself was the animal who did not to care at times, never thinking of his children never planning for the future that lay down the road.

He thought of these things and he sought their meaning.

When he awoke on the seventh day he observed an eagle flying high in the sky. He watched that eagle turn circles slowly rising becoming a tiny speck but he could see it straighten it's flight and glide without effort faster than any living thing could for miles and miles through the sky, turn and on easy wing beats rise even higher. Again and again this happened while the seeker watched the bird in it's mastery of the air which lay as as a nourishing soup over the great rolling expanse of Mother Earth.

Then the magnificent bird disappeared into the heights where no man had ever traveled above, land and water. He called out to the eagle,

"Where have you gone, where do you journey? You fly so high that you leave this world behind!"

Then to his amazement the eagle reappeared. It glided in a path directly toward him. Unswerving is only grew bigger and bigger, wings outstretched until it was upon him where he sat. Flying over his head. It dropped a single feather and then disappeared. The feather turned easy circles falling gently to the earth before the man.

When the seeker knelt and picked up the eagle's feather a voice came from within him and said, "Hold this eagle feather to the sky. Sing your heart's thoughts to your relatives who have come before you and the eagle will carry your thoughts to them. All the children that inhabit your world are my children. They will carry your questions to me. By this way you may begin to understand the mystery of life."

The voice strong and sure continued to speak, "But know this, I give to you the eagle, it's feather and the vision to make the connection to me. Teach the people that only on the seventh day is the vision granted for that is the day of creation and purification."

A wind from nowhere blew the seeker's hair across his face while the voice spoke again, "I also give others who inhabit Mother Earth their religious symbols that they may use to communicate with me. Let this be the first journey, let your people seek the vision as you have so that they may learn to communicate with their spirits. By communicating with them they communicate with my children and me."

This was the first religious symbol of the Sioux.


THE TRUE MEANING OF THE PIPE AND
THE WHITE BUFFALO CALF PROPHESY

Any mother who has ever held a baby will know the beauty, meaning and the prophesy of the White Buffalo Calf Woman. It is this woman who was a mother who walked the land of the Sioux so long ago. She was a mother whose heart cried out with the love, protection and caring of all children.

In her time as she walked Mother Earth, the Sioux were one great Nation. It was a time before the legend of the Seven Campfires. We were all one people. As a young girl she did a brave and noble thing for which the people of the Sioux honored her with the name, Mother of Life.

In that day and age when a young person was becoming an adult the name they were most generally given would help them to direct their path in life, and so it was for Mother of Life through out her existence on Mother Earth. She devoted her life in the physical plane to the caring and the extension of love for all children she came in contact with.

Mother of Life spent a lifetime caring as a mother for her people and she grew to be respected as an elder woman.

There came a day when an opposing people attacked her village. Sweeping into the camp the enemy struck down those who were before them. Mother of Life was a part of this scene and she saw the blow to a child of two years who was mortally wounded. She rushed to the child and cradled this little one in her arms. She watched as the child's life essence slipped away and she felt this small one die in her arms.

When it's spirit started the journey home her heart cried out in an appeal to the Great Spirit, "Why must the People only settle their differences with the anger of the animal? When will they realize that the children are the future of the people?"

No sooner had these words left her body than an enemy spear pierced her heart. She slumped over to forever cradle a dead child. Mother of Life followed that child's spirit as it started it's journey home. She knew the little one walked on ahead of her and she hastened her steps so as that child crossed over it would cross over with the protection and love that dwelt in the heart of a true mother.

Before the legend of the Seven Campfires in a time when the people were one great nation there were many things that plagued the mind of a great warrior. He had seen and known of many years of the taking of human life destroying and bringing hardships to the Circle around him. The warrior knew that the people would be divided as the Nation was too great to be controlled by one man. He wondered how the people would be held together with honor and dignity. He wondered if they would all become warriors and step outside the circle of life to settle their differences. Would they become like the animal determined to win at any cost destroying the children of their future and therefore destroying the children that make up the People? Without the children the culture and religious beliefs would die. This beautiful way of life would be viewed by only an animal who would see it without meaning.

This warrior went to his wife and said, "I am a warrior and have earned many honors in battle but yet I am a father who has received a child that has left the safety and caring of a mother's womb. I have seen our children grow and produce their own children. So in my heart I know the joy, the honor, the pride and the suffering that I have denied other fathers in the heat of battle. I have seen with my eyes the love of a brother and sister for each other and I have killed a brother."

The warrior sat and talked to his wife. He let his heart flow out to her with all the things inside that were troubling him. They embraced with his words and they cried. They knew that the singing of his heart was true. The warrior's wife broke from his embrace and went to the place in the tipi where he hung his spiritual and religious items.

She picked out a single eagle feather and returned kneeling beside her husband she said, "You are a good father who lives with the suffering of a warrior in your heart. Take this eagle feather and seek the vision. Hold this feather high and sing out your heart's thoughts to brother eagle. Ask him to carry your heart's thoughts to all the mothers who journey to the great spirit. Tell them you seek the vision of a mother's heart for the love of her children."

The warrior left the teepee and journeyed into the Paha Sapa.

We all know what happened next for the vision of the White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared to him with an instrument to bring peace and harmony but also a prophesy to end the wars and suffering of all children.

In the warrior's vision the woman called Mother of Life in the physical plane became known in the spirit world as the White Buffalo Calf Woman. She appeared with this pipe cradled in her arms with the same love and caring she had leaving this world while cradling a dying child.

When she appeared to the warrior seeking the vision of peace she said, "It is an honor to present you with this pipe for in you lives the understanding of all mothers whose love and protection of the child is sacred and you are one who knows the sacredness of the child. So take this pipe and present it to others."

The woman told the warrior, "The pipe has no honor, but when the one who holds it learns the love for all children as a mother does then the pipe becomes sacred. When you put the pipe forward with that understanding and with the desire for peace within your heart, then the pipe will become sacred."

This is the caring that must live in the heart of a man but you must also protect the pipe. A man who places himself above a woman has no right to hold the pipe, for he can never understand the caring for a child as he cannot understand the caring that a mother holds within her heart.

There may be a woman who abandons her child and she must earn the respect of a mother before she is allowed to hold the pipe. Know by this that all people who have made mistakes can always find their way back into the circle when they earn the honor again.

When one offers the pipe in peace and another accepts, it is time to talk of what truly lives within the heart. To accept the pipe means one must speak of what truly lives in one's heart. Hearing the truth will entice anger in some but the ones who feel that anger must understand that by the acceptance of the pipe you agree to hear the truth. He who hears the truth must address it with honor and integrity so that peace will come about.

If you become angry and you walk away from understanding the heart of another you may take a path away from the peaceful. You may take a path that leads to war and you will have insulted a gift from the hearts of every mother who has lived through out time. You will come eventually to take the journey home and meet those mothers. It is then you will hang your head in shame for then you will truly know that you cared not for your mother's heart but turned away from them.

A person who cannot care for the heart of a warrior and cannot feel the pain the warrior feels must never hold the pipe. When one holds the pipe one must understand the conflict that will exist in a warrior's heart after the heat of a battle is done. When a warrior returns back to his Circle of Life and again steps into his role of the father, he will always live with the monstrosities committed by the warrior that lives within him.

Each time he holds his child near he will think of the child that he has denied that embrace to. When he holds his wife in the tender moments of the night in loving embrace he will remember how another woman lays alone in the night crying because her husband has fallen in battle. One must know of a warrior's heart so that peace is a true quest. That is the only way that the children may survive.

The Woman spoke, "Hear me children. See this beautiful White Buffalo Calf. Know that the Buffalo is the most important thing to our people as it gives us plenty. But yet as you look at this White Buffalo Calf you understand that it has a special birth that only happens once in a millennium. It is sacred to our people because of it's uniqueness. Hear my prophesy and hear the easiest way to fulfill it. Teach the children as they hold the babies of the animals that inhabit the Mother Earth, for a baby is always accepted in the hearts of people. Teach the children to love and cradle the little ones in a caring way. They grow and they will learn to love and cradle the other babies of the world. Keep this caring in mind and watch the White Buffalo Calf.

The Woman said, "If you teach all the children to love all the white races of Mother Earth with the same caring that you love the baby animals then you will have found the spiritual path of the Sioux." As the warrior father watched the White Buffalo Calf turned from white to yellow.

The Woman said, "If you love all the children of the yellow races as you love your newborn child then harmony will exist in your heart for those people as well."

He watched, as the calf turned from yellow to red. "If in your heart you look at all the children of the red races and follow the teachings of the medicine wheel explaining we are all related, then you will know the true meaning of family."

The many shades of black began to flow within the red Calf and it changed to blacks. The Woman spoke to him again. "When you have learned to cherish the black children of Mother Earth you will find that there is peace within your heart to dream the dreams of love and honor and to hope for a unique future.
The reason the White Buffalo Calf has appeared with the Woman in the vision is so that the people will hav a prophesy that can be fulfilled. The Calf will appear in the distant future in that future it will change to the four colors of the medicine wheel. If we as a people are to walk among the stars in unity love and harmony, insuring a place for the generations of all children to grow, then tell the people this story so that it will grow in their hearts. They will be able to help the prophesy become a reality for the children.

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Excellent post, Griz.

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