...We have the feathers of our birds
Whatever you use from whatever area
Whatever bird is sacred to that tribe
You should never say 'No, mine is better' or
'Mine is more pretty'
Because Grandfather made everything its equal
Yours is this color, mine's this
But the power is identical
If we first understand that
So when we add the feathers to the rattle
We say that this is going to take our message to Grandfather
In a sense
But Grandfather is all around us
We don't have to do nothing
Grandfather's here
But it is a direction for man,
To make him feel like he is doing something
When in reality we are doing nothing
We can't identify two rocks and feathers and rattles
They become a symbol of Indian medicine man
Chanting on TV
Or a rock and roll star shaking his rattles because it feels good
The eagles come
They hear, they hear something, their truth
The hear the eagles blowing whistles
They come and they investigate it
Then they circle above our sundance
They circle until they go out of sight
It looks and it feels watching during the sundance
You can see them going and going
And pretty soon the sun starts dancing
2. Quick Words
3. Shall We Play the Game
4. Semati Siyonpme
... musically, spiritually
To get to the second one
If we haven't haven't done both here
Then the second one is to clear one up
And by the time we get to the fourth
If there are angels then maybe that's what we'll become
But the...
Maybe about time we get to the fourth one
We'll see the reality of who we really are
5. Good Day Morning
... the people should rest in a natural way
Not in a coffin, but in a natural way
The little creatures and crawlers come
And they distribute our body evenly
Back into Mother Earth
We become one with her
We become conductive (?)
6. Leap into the Inconceivable
7. Song of Home
8. Building Bridges
9. Sound and Color
10. Longwalker Speaks
The rattle is a voice given to us by Mother Earth
She can't talk to us like we talk in a voice
So we have to create a voice for Her
That the people will hear.
So who did we go to?
We didn't have the knowledge
As humans
Because we're limited as to our abilities
In the spiritual world
But because Mother Earth deals with life and death
Every second that the clock goes around
That she's so familiar
That we take the elements
How do we get them?
We have to go to the thing live
So we go to an ant hill
And there's a ceremony and there's song
There's prayers that go with it
And we ask the ants for help
And in asking them for this help
They bring us stones
From where ever they collect them
We don't ask them where
It's enough that they bring them to us
We collect these stones
And we put them in these rattles
And, uh, fifty-two of them
Each one is a voice from the past
And the people say
"Man, they laugh at that"
And I say
"Laugh if you want, but, listen...
While you're making fun, open one ear
To reality.
Let the other one be happy, and destructive"
So, the stones that the ants bring
When we lay our people to rest in the natural way
Not in a coffin, but in a natural way
The little creapers and crawlers come
And they distribute our body
Evenly, back into Mother Earth
We become one with Her
We become productive
See.. uh.. we're using
We never leave
We go back to the earth
And "dust to dust" they say
In due time
We're blown into the atmosphere
We come down in rain and snow
And this rain and snow is absorbed
By all creation again
It goes into the water
We're drinking it agian
We're eating it again
We become productive
So how can Man not save our own brothers
With creation?
We are just one massive cell
With so much energy and beauty
That the short time on the physical form
It's such a sin, a waste to tie it up in all the destruction
This is the voice that is going into each little stone
We put in that rattle
All this power, knowledge, energy
Then.....
11. Maazo Maazo
12. Enter Ye the Mystery School
Now I, I have the feeling
I feel good talking about this and
Almost, this is really the first time,
In talking to you
Or anybody like you in this...
I feel we have an obligation
I've been to the mountains now
And I healed myself
They said, you can't heal nobody else until you've healed yourself
Clean your backyard up so it looks nice
Invite your friends
And if they accept what you have done
Over a period of time
Now, you listen to their comments
Good and bad
And clean it again
Four times
Okay, we've done that four times
And everybody is happy
We have to offer it to them
Now I said my backyard's clean
My backyard, not my mind.
My heart is still dirty
A little bit
But I'm cleaning it
It's going...
I don't know what chemicals to use (giggle)
And I'll try to get it out
I still have this...
I still have a feeling in there that
I'm really ashamed of now
...Everything I do is life, Mother Earth
The universe, the solar system
Beyond where the red man has gone
Beyond where technology can't ever go
Can't reach it
We have to respect our women
Our little women
The young girls
We have to give them back their right
In a place that is really theirs
This place is not for the man
We are only the caretakers
We are the gardeners
And the gardener will not get his pay unless the garden is beautiful We've got a long way to go to make our garden beautiful
We have to give our women back their role in life
Their voices inside their....
So when we add the feathers of our birds
Whatever you use from whatever area
Whatever bird is sacred to that tribe
You should never say 'No, mine is better' or
'Mine is more pretty'
Because Grandfather made everything its equal
Yours is this color, mine's this
But the power is identical
If we first understand that
So when we add the feathers to the rattle
We say that this is going to take our message to Grandfather
13. Ave Verum
[Transcribed by Yesman for those folks in Brazil]
Origin: religion-events.blogspot.com