The Beauty Of The Native Spirit To explore the essence of Native American Spirituality is to understand their connection with the natural world and the cosmos. They do not see themselves outside or apart from nature, man is no greater than the smallest plant or the biggest star, all of the creatures including the animals, birds and the fish are called ‘brother’. In their poetic interpretation of a creative life the Native People’s named them appropriately with names which showed their respect and the honour they had for all life, the trees are known as the ‘standing people’, then there are the ‘winged one’s’. The mineral kingdom, from
Their connection with the earth was a natural relationship, the earth is seen as the mother and is known as ‘Mother Earth’ it is she who gives the abundance of physical life, food, shelter and water. She gives the forests where the standing people grow allowing ‘her children’ (us humans!) to receive fuel and logs to make dwellings, she gives the oceans, the rivers and the streams for water, movement and food. ‘Mother Earth’ has everything to give and she gives it freely, because of this the Native American People treat her with respect and honour all their ‘relations’.
The spirit of life which comes from the ‘Great Spirit’ known as ‘Wakan Tanka’ is found in all things, and because of this belief everything and everyone is connected, this is expressed with the symbol of the ‘Sacred Hoop’, a sacred and important symbol in Native American life and spirituality. Their connection with this symbol holds a deep understanding of the earthly cycles found in the seasons of the year, and with planetary cycles and movements of the cosmos. Everything moves in a circular motion, the earth, the sun, the moon and even the planets are circular, Black Elk talks about the power of the world in a circle in his word he describes perfectly the essence of the meaning behind the symbology of the circle and ‘The Sacred Hoop’.
the smallest stones to the great rocks which form the canyons, mountains and mesa’s of their environment are known as the ‘stone people’ even the ‘cloud people’ look down upon them from the great skies.
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