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Iroquoian women: The gantowisas
Feb. 28th, 2020 04:22 pmThanks to @polyfrazzlemented for sharing this handy bit of info with me! Check out this snippet from Iroquoian conceptions of personhood and self!
Source: Mann, B. A. (2004). Iroquoian women: The gantowisas. New York: Peter Lang. This passage is found on pages 326-329.
Iroquoian spirituality is unmediated, direct contact between human and non-human spiritual agents. Connecting with outside entities who operate on their own, non-human agenda is a frighteningly real experience that shakes you to the bone, leaving a sense of shivering awe. Such spiritual experiences occur in a non-ordinary reality that is entered by walking through the Open Door of medicine into the connecting realm of Spirit. To pass through, assuming you are Iroquoian, you must use that element of your own spirit that came from the stars and that will, eventually, walk the Milky Way Trail back home to Te jennoniakoua, the Seven Dancers of the Pleiades, where Spirits dance with Sky Woman.
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Source: Mann, B. A. (2004). Iroquoian women: The gantowisas. New York: Peter Lang. This passage is found on pages 326-329.
Iroquoian spirituality is unmediated, direct contact between human and non-human spiritual agents. Connecting with outside entities who operate on their own, non-human agenda is a frighteningly real experience that shakes you to the bone, leaving a sense of shivering awe. Such spiritual experiences occur in a non-ordinary reality that is entered by walking through the Open Door of medicine into the connecting realm of Spirit. To pass through, assuming you are Iroquoian, you must use that element of your own spirit that came from the stars and that will, eventually, walk the Milky Way Trail back home to Te jennoniakoua, the Seven Dancers of the Pleiades, where Spirits dance with Sky Woman.
