Steven Harper - Meal Chant Stew
using what is available, balancing animal and plant food, including plenty of long-chain fatty acids, seeking foods in the right season and cooking them slowly as we would in a ground oven or bed of ashes.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Ritual is a means of attuning ourselves with one another, to the land, and to the invisible worlds of spirit. Recovering this fundamental skill would help us better tend the needs of our soul and culture.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
In April, fathers enter the bath and dunk their two-year-old sons, carrying them then on their shoulders up over the pass, over to where I sit, these holy grounds, and then up to Hongū Grand itself. The “Book of John” tells me that once dipped, those sons are “imbued with the gods of Kumano.” Can’t let their feet touch the ground until they pass
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