'With this holy pipe you will walk like a living prayer', the White Buffalo Woman told the people, 'your feet resting upon the grandmother, the pipe stem reaching all the way up into the sky to the grandfather, your body linking the Sacred Beneath with the Sacred Above. Wakan Tanka smiles on us, because now we are as one, earth, sky, all living things and the ikce wicasa — the human beings. Now we are one big family. This pipe binds us together. It is a peacemaker. There is a pool of blood somewhere, a place you came from. You will find this blood petrified into stone and it is red. It comes from a sacred spot common to all people, where even enemies are turned into friends and relatives'. And it is probably from this time onward that the Sioux people started the custom of ending all important ceremonies with the words Mitakuye oyasin - all my relatives - plants, animals, humans, all one big universal family.
Lame Deer, Seeker of visions, 1972
Gathatoulie
And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.
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