North American [mythology]Marshall Jones, 1916 - 325 strani |
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Stran 91 - Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. " You ask me to dig for stone ! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. "You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?
Stran 207 - ... conceived within himself and thought outward in space, whereby mists of increase, steams potent of growth, were evolved and uplifted. Thus, by means of his innate knowledge, the All-container made himself in person and form of the Sun whom we hold to be our father and who thus came to exist and appear. With his appearance came the brightening of the spaces with light, and with the brightening of the spaces the great mist-clouds were thickened together and fell, whereby was evolved water in water;...
Stran 17 - Ecce Homo" and a statue of our Lady of the seven Dolours, and the interpreter explained to them that that head crowned with thorns, and that countenance defiled with insults, were the true and real image of a God who had died for the love of us, and that the heart they saw pierced with seven swords, was the heart of his mother, we beheld an affecting illustration of the beautiful thought of Tertullian, that the soul of man is naturally Christian!
Stran 38 - If they see their fields verdant in the spring, if they reap good and abundant harvests, and if their cabins are crammed with ears of corn, they owe it to louskeha. I do not know what God has in store for us this year; but . . . louskeha, it is reported has been seen quite dejected, and thin as a skeleton, with a poor ear of corn in his hand.
Stran 87 - Tira'wa atius, and whoever is touched by the first rays of the sun in the morning receives new life and strength which have been brought straight from the power above. The first rays of the sun are like a young man, they have not yet spent their force or grown old, so, to be touched by them is to receive an accession of strength.
Stran 97 - The circle represents a nest, and is drawn by the toe because the eagle builds its nest with its claws. Although we are imitating the bird making its nest, there is another meaning to the action; we are thinking of Tira'wa making the world for the people to live in. If you go on a high hill and look around, you will see the sky touching the earth on every side, and within this circular inclosure the people live. So the circles we have made are not only nests, but they also represent the circle Tira'wa...
Stran 61 - There is another world under this, and it is like ours in everything — animals, plants, and people — save that the seasons are different. The streams that come down from the mountains are the trails by which we reach this underworld, and the springs at their heads are the doorways by which we enter it, but to do this one must fast and go to water and have one of the underground people for a guide. We know that the seasons in the underworld are different from ours, because the water in the springs...
Stran 202 - All people awake, open your eyes, arise, Become Talahoya (child of light), vigorous, active, sprightly. Hasten clouds from the four world quarters ; Come snow in plenty, that water may be abundant when summer comes. Come ice and cover the fields, that after planting they may yield abundantly ; Let all hearts be glad ; The knowing ones will assemble in four days; They will encircle the village dancing and singing their lays * * * That moisture may come in abundance.
Stran 209 - ... by such shall our children be guided; for behold, when the Sun-father is not nigh, and thy terraces are as the dark itself (being all hidden therein), then shall our children be guided by lights — like to these lights of all the six regions turning round the midmost one — as in and around the midmost place, where these our children shall abide, lie all the other regions of space! Yea! and even as these grains gleam up from the water, so shall seed-grains like to them, yet numberless, spring...
Stran 171 - With your mind enveloped in dark cloud, come to us, With the dark thunder above you, come to us soaring, With the shapen cloud at your feet, come to us soaring. With the far darkness made of the dark cloud over your head, come to us soaring, With the far darkness made of the rain and the mist over your head, come to us soaring.