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Originally Posted by ImthatIm
Nice little vid. on the White Buffalo Calf Maiden.
Also your 2nd vid. is excellent. I Love 'Not a Medicine Mans' practical teachings.
Yes, there is ritual and then there is beyond ritual.
I could also say the Pipe represent me. To be a Hollow Bone. Yes?
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Yes, yes. These rituals are invaluable teaching tools explaining/demonstrating how things work in practice.
And yes, first one uses a conduit (unified male-female energy) and when the scales tip over one becomes a conduit …. i.e. one becomes
nothing, a-beyond-gender ‘hollow bone’ shaman.
Although Amerinds do not have shamans:
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While non-Native anthropologists sometimes use the term "shaman" for Indigenous healers worldwide, including the Americas, "shaman" is the specific name for a spiritual mediator from the Tungusic peoples of Siberia and is not used in Native American or First Nations communities.
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So, sometimes these things can be understood across the board, sometimes not. And sometimes the same words used to describe different indigenous peoples’ ways can be wrong and even downright offensive.
One doesn’t call Spiritual Elders “Chiefs”:
http://www.artnet.com/artists/charle...KviNORg0TJx2Q2
And here is why:
https://www.creativespirits.info/abo...l%20University.
One wouldn’t have called a shaman a “chief” either. Ours wasn’t a personality cult. How does one make a figurehead, a ”celebrity” out of a person who has ‘died to the self’ – who became a ‘hollow bone’ in order to serve all? (All one’s relations).
People do borrow meanings from Amerind lingo though, as if it was a common language for all 'natives' :
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ANTIQUE-...-/302745297189
War paint! … What the …?:
http://www.personally-selected-abori...-painting.html
https://www.aboriginal-art-australia...-painting-art/
I don’t know of body painting in shamanism. People expressed their totems, beliefs, spirit helpers, protectors etc. etc. through jewellery and their belonging to a specific ‘nation’ through clothing.
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Maybe I had told about this story before. At one time, met this Elder/Healer (‘medicine man’) in an event. He had a paper tube on his head and when I asked about it, he said:
“The Pope has got one too, so why shouldn’t I?”
- Which I thought was fair enough.
His name was/is "Nose Peg" (Although he wasn’t wearing one at that time).
Another old picture (I trust) of a healer:
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vpyjfaqh
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