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Lädt ... Meditations With the Navajo: Prayer-Songs and Stories of Healing and Harmonyvon Gerald Hausman
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  goosecap | Sep 6, 2023 |   > LES NAVAJOS, de Gerald Hausman. — Gerald Hausman a étudié l’histoire, la culture des Indiens d’Amérique sous la tutelle de sa mère. Puis, il a fait des études d’anthropologie à l’Université du Nouveau-Mexique. Dans ce livre, l’auteur, nous indique-t-on sur le quatrième de couverture, « nous introduit au coeur de leur spiritualité et de leur manière de vivre et de penser en restituant pour nous l’esprit des chants qui président à la fois aux cérémonies sociales et aux cérémonies religieuses ». La même maison d’édition nous propose un livre sur les Hopis, écrit par Robert Boissière, et Les Sioux Lakota de Paul Steinmetz. Éd. Le Mail, 167 pages. —Le devoir, 30 mai 1992 Joop-le-philosophe | Mar 2, 2019 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo. * Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world. * Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations. * Includes meditations following each story or poem. Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live, and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage, homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand at the moment. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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From a cross-cultural/human/One God perspective, I think Coyote is basically (my friend) Hermes, and Changing Woman (who I’ve seen before in that online goddess oracle I use, but knew nothing about) is basically Girlie/Femmie. I don’t know. It’s like…. It’s like they’re my friend, you know.
From a sense of differences, the Navajo are different because their society places more value on the past, and nature, and also has specific language and national characteristics and loyalties (eg harried by the whites, French-German style feuds with say the Pueblo and other Southwest tribes in the old days). Our society values more change and technology, and white supremacy. Which isn’t to say that a scientist is necessarily more or as racist as others, (although of course it’s possible to support our science as the white man’s way), but we value all of those things.
I’m also often surprised when I read about Native cultures how often they come from fear—when they come from love it’s less of a surprise, somehow—and also how non-intuitive their specific healing systems are to an Anglo.