CSD-3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medicine Wheel, Great Spirit, Plains Indians
27 Feb 2018
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To use them in any way other than the way they were intended would be sacrilegious. Sweat lodge for spiritual renewal and healing: daily rituals, dwellings oriented with the doorway on the east so a person awakened to the rising sun. The understanding was the creator was sending daylight, warmth, growth and enlightenment to each person to begin a new day: morning prayers after awakening, the individual would pray, thanking the. A confession of responsibility was made to other people. Sacrifices were given: sacred path day began with man walking reverently along a sacred path, among all living things on earth and under the supernatural powers dwelling in heaven, traditional roles, children- responsibilities, seek knowledge from elders. The grandparents discipline the children, not the parents: teachers grandparents are admired for their knowledge and wisdom which they often conveyed through stories.
