Mitakuye Oyasin
"All My Relatives"
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Relatives in a time of much confusion,
many hear the songs that blow in the winds. You may visit our blog
http://white-buffalo-calf-woman-sings.blogspot.com to hear Sacred Song Blessings in sound files. To hear it written in heavenly story form with interpretations of the earthly helps bring heaven and earth together in our understandings. Please visit
http://sacredsongblessings.blogspot.com. And there are many relatives who share in the language of the song, which streams from the heart. In this confusion, our heavenly souls shine and beam out to the world, needing to be nourished and loved, awakening to the dawning of man who is learning to be kind (mankind).
We are all relatives, because all things belong to the Rainbow Clan, the four sacred directions each of us hold and are woven together with others, who also carry four sacred directions in rainbow colors. This knowing puts us at the forefront of understanding the Rainbow Clan. All my relatives (Mitakuye Oyasin) means, we stream through each other in four sacred directions, our buffalo robe or holy temple, which houses our soul, the spirit that arises to be told, a story, a dream, a place for us to beam (a light from within). Together we are the Rainbow Clan. Below excerpt about "Mitakuye Oyasin".
Today many parents and seekers are looking for the crystal or indigo children, however these are only two of the rainbow colors we may carry and not only have we always been around, we are the greatness of the stars that manifest this world. Asking for your rainbow colors (email me at whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com or ask on our facebook pages
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rainbow-Colors/212014478904328 or
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Indigo-Children/12727442062819
Learning about your Rainbow Colors, your Holy Buffalo Robe, guides you to your prayers, where the sacred alter is the Bow. The bow and arrow represent one who aims for the heart, with the intent on loving and purifying those who need guidance.
Our sacred white calf, one of many many white animals being born signify the returning of the bow. The white hoop returns, the star children return to the sacred hoop, the circle of counsel and wisdom that comes from each other's hearts. On the four walks of life, the blue road (sound waves) , the red road (color/light waves), the yellow road (dreaming cross blue and red) and the white road (returning to the beginning, connecting) that we share, we are learning greatness comes from all of us who dare, share their hearts, forgive those who did not dew their part and stand proud for the soul that lies within, a light from within.
Join us each new moon for the Ghost Dance, when the soul rises forth from the hidden darkness to become
"I am a Sun Dance", this smoke, this breath, this dance and song, lifts us towards our greatness, the unity of our soul with our flesh, where the rest is a mesh, united relatives let us rock and roll, over the hills we sow.
The rock is the crystalline stone river we all share. WE are all beings of light, now we are learning to realize the monumental task we are to take forth into the dawning of Man who is learning to be kind.
your devoted servant, White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother
Lakota (I Stand) Daughter, House Which-cha (Running Rivers), Tribe Sioux Nation (spirit of the lake people, the law of the snake, LOVE)
"buffalo robe" crystal, yellow, green, gray
birthday year of the white (metal) buffalo
june 27, 1961
Prophecy is truth, when you come to walk towards you, for the twin child, the crystal stone, will tell you, just what lies upon your heart. Will it be loving kindness and bowing with the alter of relatives? Or will it be hatred and opposition with the alter of the red road, man's intelligence?
The Law is LOVE and as akicita, the law bringer, brings the story of the Great Circle!
Image translation and song for artist's rendition of White Buffalo Calf Woman
Mitakuye Oyasin "All My Relatives"
White Buffalo Calf Woman Interpretation: Mitakuye Oyasin means "Here I Fall", the sacred bow and alter to your buffalo robe (holy temple of you, four directions in rainbow colors). Here I fall in the summer of the fall. This means the star seed falls down (from heaven or whope, the fallen star) with a great light that bows, the Rainbow People. White Buffalo Calf Woman Bows.
White Buffalo Calf Woman Note as Law Bringer (Akicita): Peyote is not a Sioux Medicine. Do not allow your Sioux Relative use or abuse this substance. Treat them as a Warrior Down (who needs a helping had up). The Great Story lies upon the Sacred Pipe and it's green grass (sativa as medicine, food, clothes and much more, as well as for spiritual seeking with the heart, as the Spirit of the Lake people) and it's red bowl (the red road, the law of love adminstered to the peoples of the world, many lands and many relatives). Here lies Grandmother dreamspace (gray or red-green). Whence the breath arises, the sacred smoke sizes the many roads we prevail, the lands of the sails. Join us each new moon, in the Ghost Walk, when your soul awakens and the breath is chasing, the rainbow colors in your world, the song and dance will be filled. Join others, ask others to join, no matter where you are in the World. We are all related. Mitakuye Oyasin "all my relatives". Aho (may your spirit fly)!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Revised by White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother, elder christal (crystal, pearl, diamond) child,
alightfromwithin.org, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy]
Mitakuye Oyasin (All Are Related) is a traditional Lakota Sioux prayer, with its opening phrase used as a refrain in many Lakota prayers and songs.[1][2][3] It reflects the inherent belief of most Native American traditions and belief systems that "Everything is Connected".[4] The Lakotas (I stand), Dakotas (I wind) and Nakotas (I embrace) all the Native American tribes revere the prayer. It is used in all Yankton (Sioux) spiritual ceremonies and employed as a prayer to end other prayers, after which the sacred food or sacred pipe is passed around. [5]
In 1940, American scholar, Joseph Epes Brown wrote a definitive study of Mitakuye Oyasin and its relevance in the Sioux ideology of "underlying connection" and "oneness".[2]
Contents
- 1 Translations and themes
- 2 The Prayer
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Translations and themes
The phrase translates as "all my relatives," "we are all related," or "all my relations." It is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life: other people, animals, birds, insects, trees and plants, and even rocks, rivers, mountains and valleys. [6][5]
The Prayer
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin....All my relations. I honor you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer....
To the Creator, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you. To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you. To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and gives me healing herbs for sickness, I thank you. To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offers your loyal companionship in this walk of life, I thank you. To the human nation that shares my path as a soul upon the sacred wheel of Earthly life, I thank you. To the Spirit nation that guides me invisibly through the ups and downs of life and for carrying the torch of light through the Ages, I thank you. To the Four Winds of Change and Growth, I thank you. You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery. Thank you for this Life. I Bow! (author unknown)
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitakuye_Oyasin
Mitakuye Oyasin means we are all related.
This is the lifeblood of our existence.
I can not exist without you.
I can not exist without the Spirit World.
I can not be without the Great Pulse
We are all related.
We are all connected.
The Healing Drum by BlackWolf Jones and Gina Jones
External links
http://www.trailtribes.org/pierre/all-my-relations.htm
All My Relations "mitakuye oyasin"
Lakota Wedding. Gouache on muslin by Tom Haukaas, 1998.Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. Acc. # 1998.260.1. NS 22230." Background: From portion of painting by Tom Haukaas, "Lakota Wedding".
As Above, So Below
In the days when buffalo still roamed the plains, the Lakota had to heed the teachings of celestial events in order to survive. They learned through observation, day after day, year after year. It gave the Lakota knowledge to guide their annual food gathering and production cycles, and knowledge of the celestial calendar served their religious need as well. Ritual activities marked the cycling of the stars. It gave the Lakota greater power to participate fully in their environment.
The Lakota learned about the sacred order of all things, in both realms of earth and sky, and about their own place in the vast universe. Through their careful observations of the star world, they came to understand that their world of the plains was a microcosmic reflection of the star world. These worlds are mirroring each other - what is done below is the same above. This sacred knowledge still guides the Lakota people.
Lakota Star Knowledge - this origin of wisdom is connected by the belief in the macrocosm (star world) and microcosmic world of the plains. They are mirroring each other: what is done below is twin above. This mirroring attests to an understanding of many levels of reality. First, the vortex above is a star and the vortex below is earth; second, the vortex above is the sun and the vortex below represents Sun Dancers; third, the vortex with its apex pointing up is also the shape of the tipi, a replication of the creation of the world.
Image hourglass two triangles tip to tip: Lakota Symbol
The stars are called, the Woniya of Wakan Tanka, "The Holy Breath of the Great Spirit". The sun, the Great Spirit, was giving them spiritual guidance that they translated as to where, what, and when to perform their sacred ceremonies.
The Black Hills are the spiritual center for the Lakota people, viewed as the microcosmic hoop out of which new life is born, each and every year. As the sun travels its long journey through the Lakota constellation so do locations of ceremonial sites in the Black Hills change.
"The Black Hills is the home of our heart, and the heart of our home". David Blue Thunder
In buffalo days, the spring equinox brought small groups from several Lakota bands into the Black Hills. The summer solstice brought the western Lakota and other Lakota bands to Devil's Tower for their mid-summer Sun Dance ceremony.
During this annual ceremonial journey from spring equinox to summer solstice the sun travels through four of the Lakota constellations. The Lakota were following the sun's path on earth.
Sun Dance
The Lakota follow the sun's path on earth, through the microcosmic hoop out of which new life is born each year. The sun leads the people in their cycle of food acquisition and ritual activities. This knowledge gives the Lakota great power to fully participate in their environment.
The first creation was accomplished through self sacrifice and the shedding of one's life force: blood. As Inyan sacrificed his blood to create the world, the Sun Dancers voluntarily sacrifice their flesh and shed their blood in order to re-create the world and renew life on earth each year.The Sun Dance is not a celebration by man for man; it is an honoring of all life and the source of all life, that life can go on. Only in sacrifice is sacredness accomplished. The power to generate life is gained, lost and regained each year, but only through sacrifice.
The Sun Dancers vow to recover the lost arm of "The Chief Who Lost His Arm." This Chief is selfish and his selfishness threatens to interrupt the cosmic cycle. Because the continuation of life depends upon self sacrifice and the chief refuses to make an offering of himself, divine intervention becomes necessary. The "Thunders" (Wakinyans) tear off his arm and hide it. Fallen Star (who has a human mother, and a spirit father - a star) must complete the process by struggling with the Thunders to regain the arm. This symbolically implies how not to behave. The Dancers' vow to recover the lost arm symbolizes overcoming chaos, death, and the earth's infertility. By voluntarily sacrificing their blood, they recover the lost arm of the Chief.
(Background courtesy Sinte Gleska University)
Medicine Women
Lakota women are powerful and highly respected by their men. This connection is based in the connection of women to White Buffalo Calf Woman, the Winyan Wakan of the Lakota.
In the traditional matrilineal Lakota society, women were the heads and owners of their tipis and camp belongings. They possessed powers beyond men, gave birth, gathered food, and were understood as equals to men. The women raise the children in accordance with the "Four Great Virtues of Life;" fortitude, generosity, bravery, and wisdom. The children are to sit quietly and absorb the teachings, following the expectation of respect for the teachings and, in turn, respect for the elders. The Lakota woman's greatest gift for the tribe is the birth of children.
Image White buffalo calf from the Heider farm in Wisconsin
White Buffalo Calf Woman
Lakota people have a prophesy about the white buffalo calf. It originated approximately 2000 years ago by the White Buffalo Calf Woman. She appeared in the cloud to be a white buffalo calf, but turned into a beautiful woman. The two warriors, who were at that time hunting buffalo in the sacred Black Hills, saw her and one knelt down to pray ,while the other had bad thoughts about her, died. The girl told the warrior to go back to camp and in four days she would bring a sacred bundle...
Martin High Bear tells the story of Buffalo Calf Woman. Martin High Bear Courtesy of Gordon Bird, Featherstone Productions. Unable to share here, video clip, look at youtube for further information and stories told by Sioux people.
Lakota women play an essential role in religious ceremonies. They are involved in three areas of religious life; first, a woman can become a dreamer, through a gift by the Wakan Tanka, or Great Mystery, to have dreams of clarity and regularity in order to warn people of danger or where game can be found; second, medicine women acquire the power to heal, either by the work of the "Spirit-Calling Women" (Wapiye' Win) or by the "Herb Woman" (Pejuta Win), or both (St.Pierre 1995).
Sweat Lodge- Inipi/Enipi
The cosmology of the Lakota is mapped in the layout of the sweatlodge. Lakota prayers are directed first in the east, sun-wise, then facing each direction acknowledging the spirits in that direction.
The Lakota sweat lodge is constructed with flexible willows and during its construction at different stages prayers are offered to the Wakan Tanka, or Great Mystery. After the sweat lodge is erected, it is covered with buffalo skins or blankets. Today, sweat lodge doorways can be found facing to the west or toward the east, the direction of light and wisdom, which is determined upon the leader's spiritual direction. In this ritual, the smoke from the pipe and the heat and steam from the rocks release the guilt, burdens and evil from the participants, bringing them closer to Wakan Tanka.
The sweat lodge has different healing and spiritual teachings. The sweat lodge is used for spiritual purification as well as body-toxin cleansing. Just like a child beginning to walk their life's path, first they must learn how to crawl. Crawling into the sweat lodge entrance on all four limbs of your body is showing respect. The darkness of the lodge is similar to that of our daily lives, which is full of negative energies. After the fourth round of songs and prayers to the Great Mystery the people leave the lodge. The crawling out represents the exiting "Mother Earth's Womb" and, along with it, a spiritual rebirth has just begun. The rebirth is one of wisdom and the light guides the "newborn" out of darkness. Lakota cosmology and spirituality is represented within the structure and rituals of the sweat lodge.
Buffalo
First known drawing of the American bison. This crude but nevertheless quite recognizable representation of the bison was printed in Gomara's Historia de los Indios Sargossa, 1552-1553" (Garretson: 1938).
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Ghost Walk (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
From the darkness we arise a heavenly child. In the darkness we find the inner light.
We are Sun Dancers. Celebrate with us each New Moon.
(2014, solar and lunar calender align, January 1, a cycle of renewal)
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Sing a song, and get along, to have joy in life, full of tears, because you know, the sacred flow is all we have to get us home! Dance all day, and learn to play, with all you do and think and say, because we need love to please, to open hearts and doors to be! Welcome all your relatives, into the heart of all your sin and say, "I love you this very day" and "I won't let you get away!". I will fight for love this day, I will fight to show the way, because I am here to love you dear, my heart that sheds so many tears. And when we hope to comfort folks, then we will be prepared to say, "Come pray with me, learn joy to speak, and song and dance will keep us in relief". Whisper song and let a breeze come home to know your knees, where prayer is your living sacred breeze!
and sea, the heart of wisdom knows the place, the heart that can conceive.
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