| I loved reading the book "Black Elk Speaks" and I would claim to be of the Native American belief system however I got the blood of an Englishman and so cannot be a full blooded member - but here is a story I wrote about the Divine Elements of water.
The River.
A frozen drop of water melts and flows downhill joining other drops as a small stream, it becomes waterfalls, ponds, lakes, sewer systems, rivers, backyard swimming pools, and the ocean.
Along the journey to the collective ocean the rivers make many detours, soaking up into the ground and being drawn upon by plants they become the flowing sap, animals partake of the waters and it becomes the flowing blood within them, pissed off the water flows back downhill towards the ocean. Even humans are what? 90 some percent water? The water flows in all living things before returning to the Mother Earth to continue downstream.
Then a selected few within the collective ocean, lake, or pond experiences the rapture of the Sun, they rise upwards into the air as fog, and collect in the heavens as clouds where the water is again purifed by the ozone. The clouds speak as Thunder Beings and can become hurricanes, tonados, superstorms and floods, or gentle rains. Or as snow.
So the water return from the heavens (sky clouds) to fall once more on the mountian top as frozen drops, each snow flake again assumes it design identity which individualism is unlike any other snow flake. And when commanded by the Sun it melts from it's personal identiy to become one with the tribe - aka the rivers and streams - as part of that unceasing circular motion.
"This wine is my blood" so says Mother Nature of the divine element, as the ageless elements of water flow within and around all things on our planet.
Polute not the waters of life (a little soapbox sermon tossed in).
Least the global rain dance brings Her wrath upon us.
Anyway - welcome Achase to theis forum, hope to hear more of your perspectives in the future.
Technosoul. |