A white buffalo calf has been born in Texas. The Lakota Sioux - and other tribes as well - believe that a white buffalo will usher in a return of the goddess, committed to peace and unity.
This site tells the story: "that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that it would be near the time when she would return again to purify the world. What she meant by that was that she would bring back harmony again and balance, spiritually."
Quite a different world than one in which a reporter, here, lauds a 19th century buffalo hunter as being "successful" for having shot 20,000 buffalo. The article also notes that people in some middle American town still have a festival honoring the guy. Extinction Ecstasy?The image is White Buffalo Calf Woman, by Rogue Guirey Simpson
No comments:
Post a Comment