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There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

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Monday, August 15, 2011

Face Painting, Buffalo Dancing, Black Triangles, Bear and Axe Interpretation by White Buffalo Calf Woman



Cassandra said...
I had a native young man around 28 at least dancing with A BUFFALO ON HIS HEAD DANCING WITH A WHITE FEATHER IN HIS HAND and tossing grass up in the air. HE HAD BLACK TRIANGLES ON HIS FACE AND LINES then after he HE WAS CARVING A BEAR WITH A AXE. APRIL 5, 2011 4:12 AM 



White Buffalo Calf Woman Twin Deer Mother said...

Aho Cassandra,
Looks like you are sharing a dream and seeking interpretation. I love this imagery or dreamscape, because it shares so much with the world. Really showing how the complexities of overlaying colors and equations can get pretty confusing in the mind. Our thoughts can't make it all out or see clearly what is blowing in the winds all around us.

You can email me directly for dream interpretation, vision exploration or spirit flight at whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com, your devoted servant and elder crystal child (reading truth to each book of life), "crystal rivers flow from my eyes", in other words, I can sea all the rainbow colors, through sound and voice, feeling, knowing, trusting.  This is the power of the crystal child.  Each rainbow color has a power or great gift to offer the world. Each perspective shares part of the Oneness of G_ah_d, the utterance of heavenly transmission, God.  This nomenclature; Gd, no heaven arrived yet, as Jews cling to this knowledge on the eastern shore, star of david or the crystalline form is born, the soul of the child is seeded, the sun (crystal child) or rainbow colors (rainbow mother).


Now for your interpretation . . .
1. native young man around 28
2. dancing with A BUFFALO ON HIS HEAD
3. DANCING WITH A WHITE FEATHER IN HIS HAND
4. tossing grass up in the air
5. BLACK TRIANGLES ON HIS FACE AND LINES
6. then after he HE WAS CARVING A BEAR WITH A AXE.
  • 1. native young man around 28 
-I often hear of people (spiritual entities unseen) who appear at this age or even will answer with 28, which means the unity of holy or the soul and flesh or blue cross red roads, find blissful union.  This represents the circle of life or an orb, the state of One at birth. We rise up in the world on the western shore to greet the Morning Star (eight sacred directions, here I stand). Our inner light a glows, a light from within, the soul seeking to find refuge in the garden of paradise.  When you add up 2+8 you get 10, which means the aqua sky.  We are embraced by the sky.  We are embraced by the Oneness on our cycle of life, which is often referred to as the Circle of Life.

-The Native speaks about (means) the Twin Child, one who can understand you, the wise one just off the blue road (soul elder, sioux eldest cling to the western shore), the heavenly path before arising on the red road or our physical world, the earthly path. Males represent light or the rainbow spectrum.  A native male shares with us, the riches of our soul, with a birthing reality of earthly dedication to the law of love upon the red road.
  • 2. dancing with A BUFFALO ON HIS HEAD
-The term BUFFALO is a male term again.  Bison is the beast of the Native American Cow relative, either female or male.  Buffalo is representative of light or rainbow colors, the brotherhood of mankind. When one dances, we show respect and admiration to the world, a living prayer, we stand up to rejoice in the creation of all things or "Godly". Also the Head is representative of the SOUL. The Soul (head, female principle or heavenly blue road) does ride on the Rainbow Colors (buffalo or light, male principle or earthly red road). Dancing united, means one starts the journey on a dream, the yellow road appears. "All feels near, heaven and earth carry no fear, all is purified and aware, dreaming, journeying as I go, I flow!" To flow a Soul of One must lean towards the rolling over, from one stepping stone lesson to the next and over the rainbow we grow (up or ascend).

  • 3. DANCING WITH A WHITE FEATHER IN HIS HAND
-Dancing offers one a chance to unite heaven and earth within one's self. Magenta child, must do this to relieve the heavy burden of the flowing lights and sounds, each day, dance and sing away. Great joy and happiness overflows within. Often the Magenta child is a great teacher of dancing, especially the Native American Dancer. Here/Hear our soul (music) and our flesh (dance) come to unite.  This is the crossing of the blue road with the red road, to find the yellow road, where dreams come true. Often in drug use, we experience euphoria or exploration of the universe.  Well that's deep, the dance (over-exertion) can offer you this trance state, to go beyond physical capabilities, to the psychic experience. This is a place, where, we come alive to this awareness, to be all part of the greater wholeness of God's embracing spiritualism, "Divine" or what we call it around here on the hoops, "Greatness".  We are this great spirit. What was separated, heavenly soul or shadow (gray or grandmother space, web), now is united to our world of the earthly flesh or color (rainbow clan, streams of colors).

-The white feather is the flight of all colors, often referred to as the bear in the sky or the star returning home, even the Grandfather, who is the rainbow color, white child or star child. This is the babe from heaven learning about the rainbow colors. A soul must emerse one's self and bath in the light or rainbow colors, to understand a language.  The eventual recognition of the star language, either through song or imagery (the more ancient, the more imagery), will announce the new books of life, lie in the heavenly realm, where the access of knowledge is for all beings.

-Feather is flight as I said earlier, but I want to share with you more about this subject.  The feather is a stem with lines leaning outwards bilaterally (united, but separated red and blue roads), curved and lie in layers. A single feather is used in prayer to move smoke around us in a circular fashion, almost to embrace the person receiving the prayer smoke.  This movement represents flight on the crystalline stone river, where we flow together and apart, the shadows or grayness of Grandmother space, the sacred web of the crystalline stone river, which we all dream about.  The feather shows us how to curve and lean on the elipitical path, rolling over lessons or stepping stones (crystal stone of one) through prayer blessings of water and fire, where smoke arises from purification.  Here one is able to receive instead is great wisdom, the great treasures (rainbow colored crystals, diamonds, gold and pearls).  Hear (repeating the story, the validation of the received signal of the voice) the roll over, the bow of humility (blue road, heart wisdom) is not who is right or wrong, but who fights to unite broken hearts, for LAW is LOVE upon the red road (intelligence), where brotherhood (golden dream) can be known. The feather reminds us always, that the law of sound, booming rings around you, the embracing heart begins on the heavenly blue road.

-White Feather in his hand, we find that all the rainbow colors are in flight, together united, but apart. Each doing their part to hold us unified, like a perfect mathematical equation, that never fails, for love is the singularity forever and ever. A hand offers one a gift, the treasure, the blissful heart that understands your pain and the stout hearted who will stand up for you to gain, when you have lost your prayers.  Relatives care for one another. Caring is the embracing factor of the spiraling soul journey. We call this LOVE, the bowing of the RAINBOW MOTHER, who gifts to us our SOULS.  The eternal holiness of the eagle, who's talons peirce our hearts, to grab hold to devour you into pieces, to totally love you.  To bring back what was lost, the purified heart.  This imagery is represented by the infinity icon (mathematical symbol used in present day languages) or a sideways eight. This is the unity of two (the soul and the flesh) flowing together. Here all life begins (atoms), before the four (red greets green) sacred directions are formed (including evolution), the four rainbow colors clothed by all beings seen or unseen. By the way, the lavender child, our Holiness around the world, purify our rainbow colors each and everyday.  They bring their flowing love and law that binds us together, the dark unseen and the light seen together, whether we like it or not. Whether they like it or not. Because this is the power and function of the lavender child, to bring us eternal love and to birth atoms of light, learning one day to bind together or cling to others. Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star is our elder lavender child.  When looking into their light stream, you can only sea fire.  Purification of the rainbow colors, seen and unseen, must be bathed in fire. Just like when we wash our hands in water to cleanse and remove debri and bacteria.  The same is resolved when we wash our hands in fire to cleanse and remove impurities.  Here we stand cleansed by the great WHITE FEATHER dancing in the winds, his hands free to share the purification of rainbow colors (light, seen luminous and unseen numinous) through spiritual development.
  • 4. tossing grass up in the air
-Grass is green, the color of the reflective crystal or vision from the inside out. Here it's dark lieing, where the soul resides within, yet offering a vehicle to lead others towards their own spiritual flowing journey or river of life. Grass grows where water flows. You will notice especially after a rain fall (rainbow). Grass grows on all places high or low, where a heart will sow.  Green is the fourth rolling hill, meaning the embrace or circle of life is embraced. By taking the step towards the red road, the holy smoke can arise, where rainbow colors fly in the sky. Between the two worlds, heaven and earth, the spirit can soar on the yellow road. Tossing the grass offers the illusion and dreaming for others to follow and to adore, the bounty of the rain, rainbow, roll over, lessons, treasures, stories, life in a garden even if for one day. Another thing, the pipe tells of a similar story about the red bowl (fire holds together) and green grass (green medicine) come together, to bring the heart's soul and the flesh body, our rainbow colors in one place.  We light the fire to purify our souls (gray dreamscape), to purify our rainbow colors and to unite them together on one journey, learning and seeking answers and experiences along the way, to share and grow forever. Delighting in the wonderland we can explore eternally through all the rainbow colors, in ourselves and through each other. In the air is where one will find rainbow colors that are in flight, headed somewhere, like the salmon's journey shares. We find comfort when we are embraced.  The green river shows us that the crystalline river starts where our heart lies. And that our breath offers us a vehicle to make our dreams come true, if we seek out the red road and use the law of love to guide us forth, forever flowing as ONENESS.
  • 5. BLACK TRIANGLES ON HIS FACE AND LINES

-Star of David (Jew, intermittent) are triangles representing the star (crystal sun).  The Morning Star (Sioux, constant) are triangles representing the star (rainbow mother). These two overlay each other in the perfection of the rainbow colors and it's singularity, LOVE.  The spiraling path over the horizon bilaterally is the united spectrum of the webbed circle of life.  Triangles offer reflection and curved space.  A square/rectangle/four sides, can be divided into two triangles, offering it the ability to bounce or roll over sound or light waves or frequencies. This is the echo one feels in an empty river basin or canyon. This is the story that is repeated and validated. Someone is caring about the sacred words that come from your heart, even in anger and in pain. Reflection offers us the leaning towards each other, to embrace and know love before all intellectual things of the world. Our hearts reside within. Our minds play an integral part to our realization, to bring the true soul to fruition in the rainbow colored garden we live in, a patchwork of the blanket of life.  This shifting blending is what Grandmother, a gray child does for all of us. Embracing and awakening to the children's needs, when the lesson arises, to feel embraced, to once again, be gifted the lift we needed and courage to go for our dreams.  Grandmother treats each child as her favorite, because it's each child who clings to her fabric. She weaves us together like a spider and vicious to protect her young grandchildren, even against the father of any house who's mind reigns above his heart. On our face, let alone his face, remember male is representative of the rainbow colors and red road, the earthly flesh...on our faces, are lines of happiness and sadness. Of joy and pain. Of riches and sorrows. Of wounded hearts and blissful lust for life.  These earnestness come into being to radiate from our faces. Each line and wrinkle sheds meaning to the world around us, our dreams and our vision in all our days.  As we walk around in a daze, with all this confusion, we think and ponder on the riches, we each wish, pray and seek to find our hearts. To radiate a light from within, the place where brotherhood can reign. And where sisterhood can show meaning to the opposition and shouting out to righteousness, to show love lives here. We hear and feel dazed, but we stand, even though others may not understand our hearts. We pray that one day, our family of the rainbow will return to our hearts, a place within a light does shine.

-Lines only go to show you, how confusing all of this spectrum of the dreamscape can be. But dreams are born to be impossible and through our striving we find possibilities to go further and become stronger, in our fortitude to know true love's calling on the river of the rainbow.  Here where the colors and imagery cross over to our reality, the dark (unseen colors, sound and rhythm, "I feel therefore I am") and light (seen colors, intelligence and mind, "I think therefore I am") flow next to each other and repeats over and over, to produce the singularity of Oneness in Gray space or Grandmother space, the gray child, who holds us together in all our dreams.  Each rainbow color seen, must have the last color gray (part of four rainbow colors).  This pole allows us to dream together in one place. She holds us while she shimmy and shakes, rattles and rolls to get the grandchildren along the way, towards the path of the heart, allowing all dreams to find it's course.  This means, we all carry gray or grandmother space within each of us. We are tied together, animal, plant and rock as relatives upon this world, our universe we share in dreaming. Don't forget, a triangle is formed with three sides.  When a fourth side is unseen or dark, the two triangles (a rectangle can be divided into two triangles) allow light and shadow to be in one place, united on the curved space of the crystalline stone river, the four sacred directions.  This allows the light to flow freely, the physical world. This allows the dark to flow freely, the spiritual world.  United, but separate, like our shadow always following us, whereever we go. We are the expressions of the reflective surfaces bouncing off each other, our relatives in space and time. We once again are dreaming.
  • 6. then after he HE WAS CARVING A BEAR WITH A AXE. 
-Breifly we talked about the BEAR above, the star of heaven, returning home.  We think of elders on the tree of life as branches who hold the leaves or relatives who fly (feathers) in the winds. Prayer flags represent the returning, the treasure from the lesson.  From the northern sky, we follow the path eastward until we find the white light of the father nation, who blinds us with devotional stories and great adventures.  From babes, we journey to where the star in the heavens do shine. Outwards the rainbow colors of the white light is submerged in the crystalline stone streams, to the rivers and finally back to the oceans of the stars.  It is the heavenly path that lingers inside of us all, the very soul that wants to be birthed in righteousness.  For it's an axe which can shatter a crystal, divide it's creation into separated parts to work more productively and causing tools to be formed.  The axe divides the wood, the law of love that binds us to the blue road of the roots that cling and to the red road of the branches that bend.  Hear we feel the winds, check the condition of our journey, look for smoke signals as warnings and listen with our hearts. For near, "I stand" is the eternal ears of consciousness, the very vastness of eternal heaven.  This is the place I communicate my dreams, over the rainbow colors, my voice and story will travel beyond the stars and back again to the garden of paradise where the realization can be experienced and thriving does occur. It is said that light travels 186,000 miles per second.  Yet sound only travels 600 miles per second on earth, but in the vastness of open consciousness or grandmother dreamspace, we are so much faster than light.  It's the rooting of our souls that holds us to the stepping stone or the place our journey resides on the crystalline stone river, of course depending on our rainbow colors. However, it's our souls, which can break free to fly faster even than thought to places we can only dream about.  This is the BEAR, the star who divides creation, to implant it to new rivers, to watch it grow, to return to the heart of loving the soul and the hearts of the rainbow family.  Through the GREAT WHITE LIGHT, the STAR shines to bring us the rainbow crystalline stone river, forever willing to bow and bend towards our dreams, to where the center is always here, hear in my heart, I sing the music, joyfully running home to once more love you again. "I am enthraled by your passionate returning to me. I am happy to see your face. My heart breaks in overflowing joy. I smile.  My tears run to know the tools of light, the power you claim, when you come near me.  Your rainbow colors, I adore."

-When we carve, we divide into parts. To help bring the journey to an experience.  It's like a puzzle with it's many pieces or a machine with it's diverse parts. Each part has a meaning. Each part has a function. Each part has greatness.  Each are part of the whole in our shared dreams.  Destruction is part of the world to allow rebirth to come in once more.  But as we learned to create and destroy in the second phase of evolution, the orange rolling hill in time, we are departing, we also are prepared in the understanding of the purification process for the rainbow colors, our physical world.  WE are entering the third phase of evolution, the yellow rolling hill in time, we begin to understand that destruction or spiritual cleansing through fire, premempts all creation.  This would be like blessing land before building on it or destroying all that lives there, to bring in a richer culture that was there before.  We are constantly evolving and through destruction and purification, we can always find the rebirth.  The anew, like the green grass grows, we find through carving our spiritual realization on the journey of rainbow relatives brings to us satisfaction in a job well done.  Creation gifts.

Oh key doe key (fly open, journey free), that looks like that's the end of this interpretation.  Thank you for sharing your vision and dreams with us, from the winds that fly free to seek answers and liberty for all the rainbow clan to sea.

For other gifts from me, your Sacred Woman, please visit http://www.whitebuffalocalfwoman.info/giftsfromwhitebuffalocalfwoman.  To hear Heart Songs and Rainbow Colors requests, visit http://sacredsongblessings.blogspot.com (written mostly) and http://white-buffalo-calf-woman-sings.blogspot.com (recordings).

your devoted servant sends love and blessings for nine sacred directions on your path,
White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother
elder crystal child, wakan iyeshka, walking song or holy interpreter
alightfromwithin.org, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
http://www.iamasundance.info/hoops

ps. added article for you I found with some (interpretation by me, White Buffalo Calf Woman).

HEALING AND RITUAL MEDICINE
Health and healing are among the most important concerns of Native American ritual. It is essential to understand the concept of health other than in the terms of Western medicine. Many Native American cultures understand illness not as the result of some biochemical, physiological, or psychological malady, but as a sign of disorder in society or the world, which is then reflected in the illness of an individual (clan oneness versus individual one). Diagnosis thus consists of discerning the status of the community or the world. Healing requires repairing or restructuring these environmental concerns.

Lakota Plains Indians Healing

Bear Dreamer Society is composed of Lakota medicine people whose specialty is curing the severely wounded. Anyone cured by these medicine people becomes a member of the Bear Dreamer Society. The leader of the society is one who has had a dream about the bear and knows the use of the bear medicines (rainbow colors blue child and white child often dream of bears).

Bear Dreamer Society healing takes place in a tipi whose floor is covered with sage (sage purifies bacteria and viruses). Society members sing and beat round drums, while members who may have different types of medicine dance about the wounded patient. Suddenly the leader comes growling (Thunder of the flowing Rainbow Mother) through the tipi entrance. He is painted red except for his hands (red road or physical body, the rainbow colors where law of love presides), which are painted white (united rainbow returns or Grandfather Star). He carries a knife, and if a dog is present during the ceremony he may kill it and eat it raw (this is representative of a fierce warrior, one who tears apart impure flesh or rainbow color, not a literal dog.  Remember a knife carves or directs the journey through destruction or through the spiritual purification process.). The leader faces all four directions as the other members move the wounded person to the place of honor at the rear of the tipi (embraced, comforted and loved) and apply healing roots to his body (roots reach into the earth, bringing forth the heavenly blue road, where tears reign, rain and bows).

The Ghost Dance was actually a religious revitalization movement started by the powerful healing
medicine person Wovoka (Jack Wilson) among the Paviotso in Nevada. While experiencing a high fever,
Wovoka saw the Christian God and was told to carry the message of end times to his people: the dead
would soon return, and the intruding White people would be annihilated (First of all medicine is delivered by woman (receiving) and never man (gifting), secondly the dead are those who do not use their own hearts, the blue road, which was a shadow for so long, now awakens in our souls.  And thirdly, the annihilation of the impureness of the white or rainbow clan, not the white or father nation and least of all the star returning as an elder from heaven, the bear. This is why interpretation is needed by a crystal child. And at least other dreamers who share their stories, help to get all the facts correct, but more importantly who is right or wrong matters not, but who is dreaming what and sharing with who. This is the sure sign of brotherhood, the sharing of our dreamspace, both conscious and sleeping. For it's all one place, dreaming in Grandmother's web or circle of life).

The 1890 Ghost Dance spread primarily to tribes who lived east of those influenced by the Ghost
Dance of 1870, never reaching western Oregon. Among the Plains tribes, the Ghost Dance of 1890 was
a factor in the last clash with the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee, where hundreds of Lakota men,
women, and children were massacred. The Wounded Knee Massacre effectively ended the millennial
expectations of the movement, although Ghost Dancing has persisted to the present as a dance form
among some tribes.  (Ghost dancing was feared by the Father Nation, the white children, because during our evolutionary period, many Native Americans, the red children, practiced Dark or Bad medicine, often harming rather than healing others.  Many secular religions still practice today rituals that harm others.  Now it's time for us to reconstitute the value of the Ghost Dance, where true love's calling does the bidding of the healing and purification process of the spirit, soul and flesh, where the three roads collide, making all rainbow rivers suicide, for those who do not bow  or the impure beings trying to not follow the law of love.  The law of love stands fast. But evolution has a way of bringing to us, what is needed when.) Excerpt from http://bonniebutterfield.com/indian-culture.htm


Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
 



kati said...
I've been having a dream of seeing a native American with the color white-red-white stripes painted on his face. Can you help me identify it, many thanks, Kate  MARCH 5, 2011 8:38 AM 
White Buffalo Calf Woman Twin Deer Mother said...
Aho Kati, White (Husband) is the returning star of heaven, the soul within seeking the path where it began, in Wife's arms. Red (Twin Child) is the reflection of white. In the Morning Star arrangement, the Red is dark colors of the rainbow. This is where the world began, in storytelling and traveling afar, shore to shore, star to star. To have the Red nestled inside the White means, the reflection of rainbow colors, begins on the Red Road, where LAW of LOVE presides. You will receive the lesson or the treasure, depending on if one can bow to the lessons of love. Identity to a tribe is not responded to, however, the story is the star language which Native American's bring to the world at large.
your devoted servant, White Buffalo Calf Woman elder crystal child, wakan iyeshka, walking song or holy interpreter http://alightfromwithin.org Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy AUGUST 15, 2011 6:37 AM 


There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

The Spirit of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Would Stand Upon Mother Earth

January 31, 2001


I, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Nineteenth Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe, would like to send a message to the People about Miracle, the Sacred White Buffalo, in Janesville, Wisconsin.


We have a prophecy which I've heard since my early years of the age of twelve that someday the spirit of the White Buffalo Calf Woman would stand upon Mother Earth.  At that time, great changes would happen to Mother Earth.  In 1994, Miracle was the first white buffalo to be born.  Now, eight have been born, signifying a great urgency!


It was prophesized that it will take many prayers to heal the global changes.  And through a ceremony we had with Miracle, we were told that she would also go through changes, color changes, symbolizing humanity and the Global Community.  She would be born white and then go through the changes of black, red, and yellow, finally returning to her original white robe through the power of prayer.


We ask the people of the Global Community to pray with us for global healing.  In turn, when our prayers reach that strength toward positive change, we will also witness Miracle go through the changes of standing upon this Sacred Mother Earth as a White Buffalo once again, symbolizing peace and harmony.


In the Sacred Hoop of Life, where there is no beginning or ending, may Peace be with you all.


Mitakuye Oyasin,
Chief Arvol Looking Horse,
19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
http://whitebuffalomiracle.homestead.com/Miracle_ChiefArvol_2001.html


Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
 

There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Face Painting Traditions Among Native American Warriors

Every story has a reason, to begin in such a season, to express oneself and the galaxy.  Find the perfect resonance calling, that I may paint my rawling * (the soul is golden, dream wisdom of the fierce warrior, who stands their ground together, like a dog soldiers), the expression of my devotion to God (oneness of all life, relatives). I come to you dressed in fashion, my face makes a statement to speak of heavenly beings again.  Gifting what my treasures, to dance and measure, the greatness of divine of all things.  


I fly with the eagle (holy morning star) and run with the buffalo (four sacred directions), where green grass flows over rolling hills (spiritual embrace of rainbow colors).  And if I paint my shadow (soul), then all will be known, the paddles (guide my journey), will be used on the ocean floor, to drive back home, to adore.  Heaven gift me spirit, I bring my soul near it. I express my heavenly virtues under the sun.  Watch me dance now, with my face and brow, there will be actions, when the night falls. I am the painted skill of all (display God's glory). 


Heaven gather in me. Bring the dance and song, together. I shall shine this glory, with my ability.  And if my face is chosen, to represent the golden, then the rays of God's blinding light shall sea, bringing me back to harmony. The places I seek, is the heart of the meek, to bless the star of the divine. But if I must trouble, then I will surely stumble around the rock, and glide freely. For my dance, will set me twirling around thee. And relatives be sure, that when you fumble, get up and make a tumble, because it's part of your dance, don't you sea. Bring spirit to action (ascending flesh, liberty), make embraces mere impaction (descending soul, increases density), toward the living life of eternity.


Sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother
 

* Rawlings, Raw, Ralph: someone who lived at a row (a hedgerow or a row of houses), from northern Middle English raw ‘row’, Old English rāw. Germanic rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + wolf ‘wolf’. To read more about Brother Wolf and his fierceness! http://peacefulwisdomprayer.blogspot.com/2009/05/brother-wolf-speaks-warrior-freedom.html

This was first introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form Ráðulfr. This interesting name is of early medieval English origin, and is one of the patronymic forms of the surname Rawling, developed from the Middle English given name "Rawlin". The personal name was adopted from the Old French "Raulin", itself a double diminutive of "Raw", with the Anglo-Norman French suffixes "-el" and "-in". Raw "someone who lived at a row" (a hedgerow or a row of houses) was one of the many variant forms of the male personal name Ralph, in origin an Old Norse name composed of the Germanic elements "rad", counsel, advice, with "wolf", wolf. This was first introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form "Rathulfr", and was reinforced after the Conquest of 1066 by the Norman forms "Raulf, Radulf".

A Coat of Arms granted to the Rawlings family is per pale white and black on a chevron between three martlets as many crescents all counterchanged. The Crest is a black ram passant attired gold.  Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. Thank you http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Rawlings


Face Painting Traditions Among Men of the Plains
by Jonathan Holmes
While many of the traditions concerning face painting has been taught to me by northern and southern tribal elders, I prefer to maintain their privacy. Therefore, I have only used literary sources for references.

For years I have heard different generations ask about the practice of face painting by men dancing at Inter-tribal Pow-Wows or Formal Southern War Dances. So, in this article I will try to answer some of these questions. However, since this is sometimes a very complex topic, I would still suggest the reader do further study on their own, including talking with recognized elders within the tribal tradition the dance style and dance clothes in question may represent.

Obtaining Paint
The oldest materials used in paint were derived from animal, vegetable and mineral sources, with earth or mineral paint being the most common. White and yellow paint was obtained from white and yellow clays along river beds, and buffalo gallstones produced a different kind of yellow. Green paint was obtained from copper ores. One type of blue paint came from drying a certain type of duck manure, and some tribes would combine a bluish mud and yellow clay to make green paint. Powdered charred wood and black earth was used in making black paint.
The base for red paints, probably the most commonly used color, were crimson colored clay.
A brownish red paint could be obtained by baking yellow clay over ashes until it turned red.

A description of this is described by Frances Densmore in her work titled Teton Sioux Music,
“On the Standing Rock Reservation is found a yellow ocherous substance which, after being reduced to a fine powder, is used by the Indians in making yellow paint. This substance, when treated by means of heat, yields the vermilion used on all ceremonial articles as well as in painting the bodies of the Indians. The baking of this ocherous substance – a process which requires skill – is done by the women. First, the substance mixed with water is formed into a ball. A hole is dug in the ground in which a fire of oak bark is made. When the ground is baked the coals are removed, the ball is placed in the hole, and a fire is built above it. This fire is maintained at a gentle, even heat for about an hour, which is sufficient for the amount of the substance usually prepared at a time. The action of the heat changes the color of the substance to red. When the ball is cold, it is pounded to powder. In the old days this red powder was mixed with buffalo fat in making the paint, but at present time it is mixed with water. White, black and blue paints were obtained by mixing colored earthy substances with buffalo fat. The blue was found in southern Minnesota and required no treatment by heat, and the white and black in North Dakota.” (Densmore, 1918, p. 116)

To prepare them for use, most of the raw colored earth or clay deposits were baked and then ground into a powder. The powder was kept in a small buckskin bundle and would have been put into a larger decorated paint bag with other bundles of different colors, perhaps a bone or wooden applicator and a small mirror. When used they would either apply the paint dry or mix it with bear grease, buffalo tallow, or water to achieve the desired effect.

Because of the religious significance and the ceremonial uses many tribes had for red paint, the bright vermilion red paint offered to tribes by European Fur Traders was highly sought after at a very early date. According to J. Frederick Fausz, Ph.D., in his published curriculum for the 2004 course titled The Louisiana Expansion at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, he states that long before French explorers met them in 1673, the Osage had moved onto the central plains along with the related, neighboring tribes of Kansa (aka Kaw), Omaha, Ponca, and Quapaw. When St. Louis was founded in 1764, it is said that the Osage used their talents and knowledge to make the fur trade profitable because they were considered the best fur producers south of Canada. Therefore, the Osage received many European items in trade including Chinese vermilion (aka mercury sulfide face-paint).

Even among the Omaha, there is evidence that paint was obtained at a very early stage from traders, as evidenced by the following,
“Another saving of labor in comparison with old methods was involved in buying paints from the traders. The paint was sold in small packages not much larger than a paper of darning needles.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 615)

Older Uses of Face Paint
The painting of a man’s face and body among the Plains tribes during the buffalo days was said to be a form of mental conditioning. Warriors would paint themselves with personal protective designs and colors before they engaged in battle with an enemy. Hence the stereotypical term “war paint”.
This paint would have been prayed over. It was believed that prayers were put into the paint, and when applied, the power of the prayers were conveyed upon the wearer. Other times there might even be special songs sung when paint was applied. Some warriors applied the paint themselves, others preferred to be painted by a holy person or medicine man.

Frances Densmore in Teton Sioux Music again states that among the Teton Lakota,
“Little Buffalo (Tatanka-Cikala) was a man who ‘made medicine’ for the warriors. Using blue clay mixed with ‘medicine’, he painted a band across the man’s forehead with a branching end on each cheek bone, the painting being done only in war. Bear Eagle (Mato-Wanbli), who had been painted in this manner by Little Buffalo, recorded the two following songs. He said that the first one was sung by Little Buffalo alone as he painted them, and the second by the warriors after the painting was finished.” (Densmore, 1918, p. 350)

Face painting was, at other times, not connected with war preparation, as designs of various kinds were used to designate membership in societies; used when participating in ceremonies; used as marks of achievement; and used in morning for the dead.

According to Oglala Lakota holy man, Nicholas Black Elk in Joseph Brown’s work titled, The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux,
By being painted, the people have been changed. They have undergone a new birth, and with this they have new responsibilities, new obligations, and a new relationship.” (Brown, 1953, p. 111)

Returning warriors of many Plains tribes, who had taken scalps of their enemies, often painted their faces black before returning to their camp. It has been said that the Crow believed that a blackened face symbolically represented the fires of revenge that had burned out after vanquishing their enemy.

The Pawnee scouts would paint their faces white to symbolize the wolf, whose spiritual power was considered to be of great help for a scout. According to Fletcher; LaFlesche in their work titled The Omaha Tribe, among the Omaha,

“Men generally painted their faces and bodies in accordance with dreams or in representation of some achievement or accorded honor”…”Before the advent of the looking glass a young man was painted by his friend”…When going into battle, on the surround at the tribal buffalo hunt, when taking part in the Hedewachi ceremony, at the Hethushka society, and the Pebble society, the painting on their faces and bodies had a serious significance partaking of the nature of an appeal or prayer.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 350)

Further in this same work, in a chapter on the Omaha men’s warrior society called Hethushka, it states, “Each man painted himself in accordance with the directions given him at the public ceremony when he received his grade of war honors.” (Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 461)

At one time it is said, the Omaha and the Ponca were one tribe. After separating they retained similar societies such as the Hethuska society, and had similar ceremonies for conferring war honors. An example of the war honors among the Ponca includes reference to painting in Fletcher; LaFlesche’s work,
“First Honor: To strike an unwounded man. The sign of this honor was an eagle feather worn upright in the scalp lock; moccasin strings made of the skin of a gray wolf; the upper part of the body painted black”…”Second Honor: To be the first to strike a fallen enemy”…”the sign of this honor was an eagle feather worn horizontal in the scalp lock; painting the body irregularly in black stripes”…”Fifth Honor: To take a scalp. The sign of this honor was to paint the face with a slight tinge of red and put black stripes across it.”…”Sixth Honor: Capturing horses from the enemy. The badge of this honor was to wear at the dances a coil of rope around the body and to paint on the body figures shaped like the impression of a horses hoof.”
(Fletcher-LaFlesche, 1911, p. 440)

Modern Uses of Face Paint
Today face paint is still used by many Plains tribes for a variety of reasons. Many ceremonies, such as Sun Dance ceremonies, Naming ceremonies, Society ceremonies, Healing ceremonies, and ceremonies for returning Veterans may involve the painting of faces in one form or another.

Some designs and color patterns may be “owned” by individuals, families, clans or societies. In some tribes the rite to wear a design and color pattern may be handed down from one individual to a younger relative. For example, an old combat veteran, too feeble to dance at Pow-Wows anymore, could give his young grandson the rite to use his face paint pattern and colors when he dances.

In some tribes, face paint patterns, face paint colors, the paint itself, and a possible set of protective prayers or songs, could be purchased from one individual by another. A young man might come up to an older man saying something like, “I remember you used to wear a particular pattern of paint when you danced. I would like to give you these gifts in exchange for the right to honor you by wearing your design when I dance.” It would then be said that he paid for the rite to wear a particular design and color pattern.

Some modern traditional dancers are combat veterans who wear face paint that they wore while in combat, or in a dream related to their combat experience, or as a result of their combat experience.
In both Ponca and the Osage men’s warrior societies, it is common to see men wearing protective red paint at the corner of their eyes.

For the Ponca Hethuska,
“The common face paint design for a straight dancer is a red line extending back from the corner of each eye for about 2 inches.” (Howard, 1965, p. 65)

Among the Osage Inlonschka,
“In modern times Osages use very little face paint in the Inlonschka. Usually only a streak of red one finger wide is used from the edge of the eye to the earlobe, a pinch of red is placed on each earlobe.” (Callahan, 1990, p. 112)

Often times among the Ponca and Osage, a boy or young man is usually painted for the first time by a relative when they are given their “Indian Name”, or when they are brought into the dance circle for the first time. Depending upon their age, the individual applies it themselves from then on. This red protection paint, is said to protect the straight dancers from harm while in the dance circle.
Other southern plains tribes have similar variations of eye paint in different colors and different patterns such as in a “V” shape coming out from the corner of the eye, in a “V” shape with a center line or also known as a “crows foot” design, or a series of small dots.

Lastly, whether you are a northern traditional dancer, a southern straight dancer, a fancy feather dancer, a chicken dancer or a grass dancer, and you are considering wearing face paint, the first question you should ask yourself is “why”. Why should you be wearing it? For protection; to honor someone else; to be part of your personal experiences as a veteran; or to follow the dictates of a dream or visionary experience; or to show family, clan or society ties. Once you have answered the why, then you can move on to the how and when.

References:
Brown, Joseph Epes.
1953. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
Callahan, Alice A.
1990. The Osage Ceremonial Dance, Inlonschka, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK.
Densmore, Frances.
1918. Teton Sioux Music, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 61, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Fletcher, Alice C. And Joseph LaFlesche.
1911. The Omaha Tribe, Bureau of American Ethnology, 27th Annual Report 1905-06, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Howard, Dr. James H.
1965. The Ponca Tribe, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 195, U.S. Government Printing Office, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Mails, Thomas E.
1972. Mystic Warriors of the Plains, Doubleday, New York, NY.

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Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
 

There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

Sherwyn Wish Away to Display Sings for the Hoops to be Free, Red, Yellow, Blue, I'm Close To You!

He (Sherwyn"Wish Away to Display, our Walks the Thin Rope") is not happy.  Alright, we understand, that love rules this land, suffering for those, who don't have a stand.

Holiness David Running Eagle sacred drum begins

Come my brother, hold my hand, wake up to heaven, and be a man (the dream of this journey, rainbow colors). 

Holiness David Running Eagle sacred drum ends

Create a shelter, full of leaves (relatives on the tree of life), not bringing contempt, but family. Teach each other, we are part of life, we each have our place in paradise. Bring a heart that teaches love, rules all shelters (houses of God) we are part.

Great Spirit hold me close to thine, so that I can really shine. Give this warrior a hand to God, covering his heart break, for what he could, but now it's a time of family, we are going to live in the breeze. It's time for us to shine again, to bring back brotherhood in the wind.
White Buffalo Calf Woman Sings. The smoke from the pipe continues to rise up, even after the pipe has been put out. Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, our Father Red Hand (lavender-crown, yellow, aqua, gray) Sacred drum begins again. The heart of our brother, Sherwyn"Wish Away to Display, our Walks the Thin Rope" aka "They Came And Blessed His Pipe Man, Sherwyn Zephier" (violet, blue, magenta, gray) is Displayed below. Violet people are ordained as high priest (pipe keeper, blessings, magic, gate keeper). Not only is our Lakota Brother the voice of God (oneness), but also ordained western shore, the Morning Star, the holy path, to divine glory. We welcome him into our heart and bless the sacred nine directions in the winds, relative suns!

dddmmd ddddmd (drumbeat)
Wake up, to the night stars, find that we are there. Shine in the heavens my heart pounds, but my feet, they feel just like clods. How, will I ever  walk this path now. I don't even have shoes to wear.  I wonder, how can I lead this heartbreak. With so many clouds of despair. I want to believe in true. But my heart is in another tune. My feet plod away, wondering how to play. Deep in•*¨*•.¸¸side of me. I do look to find, liberty. The Great Spirit flows, but I don't seem to know.  How can I bestow my love? When the world, do not behave like pure doves (gathering together harmoniously)? How do I walk the rainbow clouds, when others do frown?  My feet plod, I plant the seeds of love (crystalline stone tears, river, trail).  My feet plod, where there are thin icicles of rain and dew, at least I'm close to you. My heaven my heart, I feel this blue, but my feet don't twin my soul (shake head back and forth). I want to learn and finally grow. Will I be here, the future fears, but I will gather, the dust to be near. I hold the pipe, the sacred rite (Lakota ordained western shore, "I stand"), to teach the lessons of love.  I show the world, the clouds above, that my heart lingers, among the stars at night, my feet do plod in this plight, but I do this for you. I do this for the blue (loyal hearts true blue, heavenly path, relatives, tears, waters, wind, spiritual soul). 

I feel the silence of my heart.  I wonder, how God, kept me apart (separated).  How did I get, to have fortune and fame, because I must of done something to lead this chain (linked together). I will bind them to you, the "thin rope", that leads you true.  I will shine, for them, to lead me too. I will follow the world, who have a view.  I am nearer to God, I have ever been and my feet start to greet my heart.  I'm shining easy street, there is a glowing heart inside, where mistletoe, is smart (stingy), but art (glory of creation), the craft of love (law of love, the red road, physical embrace, brotherhood), does shed a tear or two, let's be clear, the waters are near (law of song, the blue road, the spiritual embrace, sisterhood).

Reaching in the winds at night, dreaming days of paradise, I sail in the smoke, the clouds of loving waves. I reach around the clouds, like a snake (purification through and through, devoted love, that's the Sioux). I gift the heart of the muse, who makes mistakes, and then I have them in tears, to forgive all their fears, for Great Spirits are hear/here. I listen to the winds of time. I open my heart and even my mind.  I wake up to the clouds in the sky, the sunlight upon my face, the willows do pray. I whisper oceans to you.  I lean over the tubes. I gather leaves for me and you, to pray, to praise, to gift for thee, God in need.

Thank you for my love and life.  Give this world, a piece of this strife.  Let them know, my love is true. I will open the hearts of you.  I will dream ahead. I will make my shed (water house, heavenly home).  I will gift a view, where lights gift rainbow heads, golden pots of lead (alchemy, brotherhood is a magical art). Gift the world, my love, I bless the true, who do it good.  I walk with my heart, my head. I walk with my heart, my feet to make bread (abundance), to bring us home, to fields of corn (wisdom), where butterfly dream (spirit flight).  I will fold the earth with you (light), heaven come home (dark), I will be amused.  Come be with me, I walk this day, let our spirits pray. Let our greatness be a ray.

I am for you.  I will be true. I am the great, light, that you sent. I will pray, I will make my way. I will be God's heaven sent. Thank you lord, heaven above, to shelter us, close to our hearts. I give to you, the sacred blue (path of heaven's embrace), the red and white (the flame of all light, the halls of consciousness). I will be shining in the night (the inner flame, alight fromwithin). I will be bold during plight (warrior stand up), I will be sacred, to be a light (rainbow man/clan).  I will be true. I will be blue.  I will come from heaven above, I will walk from heaven's road.  I will know love is true, when I am blue (relative to you), the royal heaven's delight.  The warrior God sent to fight! (the red road, the law of love)


Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, our Father Red Hand sacred drum ends.  White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin deer Mother sings, the sacred song blessings from Sherwyn's heart "Wish Away to Display, our Walks the Thin Rope (written on his book of life), Lakota Pipe Keeper. We thank Southern Season our Song of Heaven (included song), Wishing Well That Comes True (heavenly echo), Plum Blossom (healing prayers), Richard Boylan and relatives who contributed to sending love and affection (their part in the Rainbow Clan) to those who ask for help, our beloved relative, "They Came And Blessed His Pipe Man, Sherwyn Zephier". To understand blue, red, yellow, white roads, visit whitebuffalocalfwoman.net. Thank you!

 
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010, Southern Season, our Song of Heaven wrote:
Hi Relatives,
I was wondering. How is he doing? They Came and Blessed His Pipe Man, Sherwyn? We had a short conversation through email and I embraced him in my heart. I hope he is well.

Song that I wrote for him...
I sing a song for you, Relative in the Blue
My heart sends love, from me and above

So that healing take place
And you can start with brand new days

Where your spirit soar high, way up in the sky
Where the eagles fly and an angel sings
Carried on Spirit's wings

Sharing what is (in the flesh), will give bliss
to all that exists (relatives) here and now,
for you I bow, I Pray that all is well...


Blessed Be

Southern Season, Song of Heaven
Green person, spiritual embrace, "eye of the storm"
Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
green, red (crown), aqua, gray

Teach what is right, that law is the LOVE, then when two hearts is united, we share with intelligence.  However if LOVE doesn't lead the way, then we fight to unite LOVE, two broken hearts, then we know that we are walking the truth path, the love to each other, the kind that lasts, over rolling hills in time, over the suns, and into the heart of the blue seas of every one.  We are the Prophecy, the Rain upon the Land, so parched, it will need a Rainbow, to serve it home the right way and know where to land (the Rainbow always lands on the pot of gold, abundance, brotherhood)!


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Claire Plum Blossom wrote:

Relatives,
Yes, I shall send energy :)
How are you doing?
Namaste,
Claire Plum Blossom, 
She brings Surprise To All of Us. 
Rainbow Colors: blue, rainbow, yellow, gray

[We recognize you as a spiritual being and welcome you to one family consciousness.  Here at Active-Indigos, we respectfully address the ascension, flesh or light and descending, soul or darkness, process while creating local sanctuaries on earth.  Thinking globally and acting locally while networking all spiritual communities and educating the workplace.

Elders come to be, when they stand to be free, to be heard of justice door, the place where all live to be, united in heart.  United when apart.  United in Spirit, to hold and have Heaven, inside the beginning, the Elders of the World.  Who come home to what is heard.  Who use love beyond all words.  To know when LOVE is true.  And Knows when we need the views, of pure light, of pure dark, of heaven and earth, abound as One who's gonna win.  It's the Elders who refuse to budge and look for hues, instead sea with their hearts, and prays about all things in the heart. 

Willing tears will bring, the spring of blossoms who sing, songs of joy in everything.  This is the way Home.  Bring a song, bring an instrument, with a tune.  Bring your voice, a stick with many hues, and your drum which need be your open song, let us sing along!]


 
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Wishing Well wrote:
Thanks White Buffalo Calf Woman, 
(for sending out to the hoops/groups)
I am grateful for your heart. 
Wishing Well,Miranda 
Rainbow Colors: aqua, indigo, yellow, gray.

On Fri, 9/24/10, 
White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother <whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com> wrote:

From: White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother <whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NATIVE ELDER NEEDS HELP ASAP
"Educators Hoop 5" <perfectchildren@googlegroups.com>, "Education Hoop 5" <perfectchildren@yahoogroups.com>, "Grandmothers of the Green Grass Sanctuary Hoop 5 Center " <rainbowclan@googlegroups.com>, "Fourth 4 Songs of the Heart" <indigocrystalchildren@googlegroups.com>, "Hoop 4 Songs of the Heart" <indigocrystalchildren@yahoogroups.com>, "Hoop 4 Songs of the Heart" <rainbow-warriors-of-prophecy@googlegroups.com>, "Songs of the Heart Hoop 3" <bookoflife@googlegroups.com>, "Whitebuffalocalfwoman.Net  Hoop3 Red Songs of the Heart" <whitebuffalocalfwoman@googlegroups.com>, "HouseoftheBeloved.Net Hoop3 Blue Songs of the Heart" <houseofthebeloved@googlegroups.com>, "Gathering" <crystal_indigo_children@yahoogroups.com>,"Warriors" <active-indigos@yahoogroups.com>, "Alightfromwithin.org Hashem Ordained" <AaronBenjamin@yahoogroups.com>, "Alightfromwithin.org Brotherhood" <Open-your-mind@yahoogroups.com>, Hoop 2, Hoop 1,
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
A12799A-lg_Buffalo.jpgRelatives on the hoops, active-indigos, crystal indigo children, neighbors,
This was sent out for all to sea, a welcome to a heart in need. Send relief, if you please. Donation button on domains, whitebuffalocalfwoman.net, org, com, info.





Relatives, 






Request for Funds for 



Emergency Surgery September/October, 2010:  Urgent need requested for Lakota Relative, Sherwyn Zephier ("Walks the Thin Rope", called by Blessed Pipe Man), who was turned down by the Indian Health Services and has to come up with the money himself. This request was brought to us by our beloved "Wishing Well that Comes True". Paypal account links to Golden Eagle, relative account for the purposes of upcoming surgery for Sherwyn Zephier. Please contact Sherwyn, with questions or just to offer him prayers "Blessed Pipe Man Zephier" , (h): (605) 384-3275 (c): (605) 491-2653.
 Thank you Relatives!

Thank you,
your devoted servant,
White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother
elder crystal person, wakan iyeshka or holy interpreter
alightfromwithin.org Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy



On Sun, Sep 19, 2010, Wishing Well wrote:
Hello White Buffalo Calf Woman, our Twin Deer Mother,
It is good to hear from you...it has been some time.  My heart is gladdened to know that you have heard.  What a terrible predicament Sherwyn is in.  I have little money however, I have fingers and I can type and send letters through my computer.  Thank you for calling Sherwyn, whom I have never met, for posting to your blog and sending to all you know in the hoop.

I pray he gets the money on time as his health seems to be in critical condition and time is of the essence.  When you spoke with him, did you find out how serious his condition is?

"Heavenly reverberation" is lovely to take part in.  I love to connect hearts.  Please do let me know what the progress is of notifying others in the hoop by sending me forwards of your communications.

In Gratitude ,

Miranda Wishing Well
Rainbow Colors: aqua, indigo, yellow, gray. 




On Sat, Sep 18, 2010, Miranda Wishing Well wrote:
Relatives,
If you or anyone can help this precious soul, together we are strong...
Miranda Wishing Well

Friends,
So many of us have learned so much from Chief Golden Light Eagle (Loren Zephier) and his brother They Came And Blessed His Pipe Man (Sherwyn Zephier); and recently Sherwyn has had a couple of emergency surgeries.  Now he needs another to correct complications from the previous ones but has been turned down by the Indian Health Services and has to come up with the money himself. - Richard Boylan, Ph.D.

Sherwyn's message:

Relatives,
I normally don't ask for help for myself for anything, but I have an emergency health situation. I would like to make a request to all relatives of Love, Light, Peace, Unity, Harmony, Truth, Freedom and participants of the Sacred Altars of Mother Earth for financial help to complete my healing process. First, I want to explain what is happening to me. After the Sun Dance in Iowa, I was admitted into the hospital in Sioux Falls, SD where my gall bladder was removed and drainage tubes, bags and stints were inserted into my stomach and bile duct. The Drainage tubes and bags protruded out of my abdomen for a month and a half. Since then, those tubes, bags and stints were removed. Within one week of their removal there was a problem, my system was not working as it should have, so I was sent to Minneapolis, MN for an emergency procedure to fix the problem. It was a Life or Limb situation. The problem was fixed there at the University of Minnesota, Medical Center surgical team, but in doing so, they damaged the bile duct walls severely, so two more stints were inserted to allow the walls of the bile duct to heal. They have healed, but now they should come out and the problem now is that the Indian Health Service in Wagner has run out of money and they have given me an official notice yesterday that they can not pay for it. I will have to pay for the procedure myself.
 
The U of M MC Finance Officer told me the cost of the surgical procedure is $15,000.00, which I don't have. The ERCP Procedure is scheduled to happen on September 30, but I need at least 80% of the cost in to them by September 27 (2 1/2 weeks) $12.000.00. This seems like an impossible task to do for me at this time.
I'm not certain how long these stints can stay inside of me, but I can definitely feel them on a daily basis and they are doing something inside of me. My exterior wounds are healing normally, but my insides are doing something else. I am concerned that these foreign plastic objects to my body will retaliate at some point and I will end up in an emergency room again, which I also can not afford.
  
I am making an honest, sincerely request to my relatives, and all that you know on Mother Earth who walk in Love and Spirit, if you can help me. If you can, there is a donation button at www.star-knowledge.net for those who can help. This is my plea to all who have Loving, Sacred Open Hearts and can afford to assist me with some healing help. I welcome your Prayers,
  
Love and Light as well. You are all Healers. I pray that those who who know that this is an important time of Mother Earth. It is a time of Dreams, Dream a Dream. It is a time of Visions, Seek a Vision. The need is out there for help for worthy causes to those who walk with Spirit to do all that they can to help one another in any way possible. This will not only help to raise your own vibration and Spiritual Evolution, but also that of Mother Earth. I pray that all the Angels of Creation hear my prayer and plea for healing help.
  
In Love & Light.
They Came And Blessed His Pipe Man, Sherwyn Zephier

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL WHOM YOU KNOW CAN ASSIST. 
"PIDAMAYA YEDO, NINA WOPIDA TANKA"
Come greet my heart, I hold you close, my spirit is great so is yours!

Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
 

There is a place where the Buffalo (flesh of earth, the light that grows, the four sacred directions, where we do) roam, and my heart does know how to roam, to be across the rolling hills, to eat of the green grass and know my fills. I am nourished by this love, the place, where I live inside the dark, the heaven calling, to fill me up. We the Rainbow Clan do know (how to drink from this spiritual cup), that we are part of this sacred show, where the Horse (soul of heaven, the heart that knows) runs wild and free, to be with Warriors, the Dog (rainbow warrior of prophecy who stands their ground) who bleeds (follows the red road, the law of love, where the fighting is for the unification of the broken heart, to bring the warrior up).

Laho eetiwah it. Come too, it is!