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ImthatIm:
I'll bet your chuckling because of the bluegrass in the vid. I know I am. LOL where's my chuckle emoji ?
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I only listened to the first song of the video, the second song is for Alaskans.
Now – I do not belong to any Church, but I had written in the Christian section about Orthodoxy.
Here is a summary:
Even though I was brought up as Lutheran, I failed to see/experience the spiritual aspect of that Church, (others no doubt can) - but I do have great respect for the
old ways Russian Orthodox Church and this respect is still very strong in our collective conscious, in our collective memory.
Since our Church was and still is the Forest – the Orthodox ways blended in well.
The Face of God Film: The Orthodox Church on Climate Change:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...urch-on-climat
Sacred sites were not destroyed and the “Spirit Trees” were not cut down, instead Holy Icons were placed on them (& that tree is the "Guardian Spirit Tree” of the Bear):
https://anothercity.org/wp-content/u...-2-400x242.png
No priests high on pulpit delivering sermons of our evil ways - that we are all destined to hell, because of our nature beliefs …. Instead, there was this inclusion of just joining in the singing and chanting.
How should I say this, in the body of Christ (the Orthodox Church is) and by the Grace of Holy Spirit – there was no need to defend territorial belief system grounds …. boundaries.
In that embodiment of Christ, we ALL … Christians, Indigenous, Wilderness ….. found our belonging, our “unified home” ….. in One Love - in One Sacred Reality – in One Spirit.
Sergius of Valaam, a Greek monk not fearing wilderness nor its natives and Carelian Herman of Valaam – both founders of the Valaam Monastery on our ancient Sacred Site, (where we took offerings and at the time when Bears were still revered as Totemic ancestors. So we also came to understand the death and resurrection of Jesus through Bear Ceremony).
Orthodox missionaries entered Indigenous environments
“as guests in another man’s house” and that was true.
These monks were proper-right-way-humble, loving the Creation as God does, seeing the invisible God through ‘his’ Creation ….so they practiced what they believed, were willing to serve …
Where the Lutherans only saw Evil, the Orthodox attitude was:
“God speaks in Skolt Sámi language as well” …..…. so the culture, language, tradition became interwoven with the Orthodox Church.
In Alaska God speaks Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, and Yup'ik languages, so efforts were made to first understand it, then to preserve the language and the culture.
We believe(d) in the Eagle-like-“God” – but you could enter into communion with the Eagle through the Orthodox Church also:
http://merja.ru/imgs/merjanskoe_pravoslavje.JPG
That picture, which I absolutely love - I trust is named -
“Faith of Ancestors”.
...... to receive the One Spirit, even the Eagle accepted Orthodoxy into its heart ..... And we accepted Christ.
Great and entertaining video on Alaskan Native Culture and Stories – Orthodox view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivp5B1ky9Gg
Showing respect I assume:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...51f00db35.webp
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