In a way, it’s really science that’s been inspiring rituals all along. Beneath the specifics of all our beliefs, sacred texts, origin stories, and dogmas, we humans have been celebrating the same two things since the dawn of time: astronomy and biology. The changing of the seasons, the long summer days, the harvest, the endless winter nights, and t

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Grandmother Agnes believes the ceremony opened a space for the healing energy of the Creator by offering prayers of gratitude to the Salmon People for giving up their lives to feed humanity. “I am trying to teach reciprocity,” she says. “We two-leggeds are always taking and rarely giving back. Without reciprocity, the balance of nature is thrown of

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