Hanh mitakuyapi / hello my relatives. I am no fan of cold & even less of cold &/or snow &/or ice. But fall is when Hallowe'en comes, & it is my favorite holiday.
Pumpkin ghouls, wild carvings, and dressing up as "something Other".. fun stuff. But then, I am one of those women who speaks with the spirits, so in our Indn Way, I guess I should enjoy this holiday.
Last year, I carved a Hubbard squash into a buffalo & made horns from cow horn caps - lit it all with LED lights. Oooh! I carved holes so the light could go up into the horn caps & they glowed at night. Yeah!
I carved another squash into a dragon's head. Very cool, yes? I think so..
And I carved a cannibal pumpkin eating a smaller pumpkin. (Big grin).
I set them on chairs out by the road.. and attracted some of The Lunatic Fringe. The best/worst was the woman who zoomed in off the road screaming that we "worship devils" & the carvings prove it.
Duwahleh! This is supposed to be the Age of Enlightenment, but apparently it hasn't registered on everyone yet; particularly the "jesus freaks".
I don't generally say "born agains" because as a Sun Dancer, I am a born-again, too. Just very, very Pagan.
Hallowe'en isn't an Indn event - it's one of the few good things imported from Europe. But it's definitely the most fun.
Showing posts with label pagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pagan. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2009
Friday, January 25, 2008
On the Reality of Ghosts
There is a picture posted on the Internet in "Odd News" today that shows a ghost, along with the question, 'what do you think it is?'
Someone posted the opinion that it was nothing but a collection of physical effects and some sort of mass delusion. Following is my reply on said opinion:
Given that it is a spirit (= ghost) that makes a body ‘alive’, and its leaving a body that makes said body ‘dead’, it is the height of arrogance and sophomorism to claim there is no such thing as a ghost.
As a Sun Dancer, therefore a Traditional spiritual person of my ITI people, the Lakota, I am best qualified to speak on such things than you are. You need education to end your ignorance, takoszja, from which stem your arrogance and sophomorism.
Atheism has its place, but not as authority on things spiritual. It’s likelier to be a ghost than it is to be a result of some chance coming-together of various effects. There is no such thing as accidental coincidence in the universe, takoszja - there is only the fact of incidents coinciding in time.
Someone posted the opinion that it was nothing but a collection of physical effects and some sort of mass delusion. Following is my reply on said opinion:
Given that it is a spirit (= ghost) that makes a body ‘alive’, and its leaving a body that makes said body ‘dead’, it is the height of arrogance and sophomorism to claim there is no such thing as a ghost.
As a Sun Dancer, therefore a Traditional spiritual person of my ITI people, the Lakota, I am best qualified to speak on such things than you are. You need education to end your ignorance, takoszja, from which stem your arrogance and sophomorism.
Atheism has its place, but not as authority on things spiritual. It’s likelier to be a ghost than it is to be a result of some chance coming-together of various effects. There is no such thing as accidental coincidence in the universe, takoszja - there is only the fact of incidents coinciding in time.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)