Buy this product here: Personalized My Hero Is Jesus Christ 3D All Over Print T-shirt, Hoodie
Home page: TAGOTEE SHOP
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personalized My Hero Is Jesus Christ 3D All Over Print T-shirt, Hoodie
Not all Natives revered mountain lions. Thousands of cultures have come and gone in the Western Hemisphere, each with its own language, myths, traditions, and beliefs. Only in stereotypes is there a universal American Indian and a standard, nature-loving religion. Indians of the Pacific Northwest, for example, disliked the mountain lion. A Nootka Indian from the area, interviewed in 1955, called the lion the one animal the Indians did not understand. Lions are still relatively numerous today in Washington State and British Columbia and it's likely they have always thrived there, but they are largely absent from local Native imagery. When they do appear it's usually for a disreputable performance, as in the story of how the whaire's body came to have slits from chin to breastbone--a mountain lions clawed him.
To the south, toward the Plains, mountain lions kept Indians in a constant state of uneasiness. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Lakota from Minnesota who graduated from Dartmouth around the turn of the twentieth century, called the great cats "unsociable, queer people. Their speech has no charm. They are very bashful and yet dangerous, for no animal can tell what they are up to. If one sees you first, he will not give you a chance to see so much as the tip of his tail. He never makes any noise, for he has the right sort of moccasins."
Tribes from the Great Lakes southward feared the Underwater Panther, a composite monster with the body and tail of a mountain lion, ardens of a deer, scales of a snake, feathers of birds of prey, and parts from other animals as well. It lived beneath bodies of water. Water monsters appear in various guises the world over, but in North America the Native images tended to merge the traits of the mountain lion, or in some cases the lynx, with those of snakes. Mountain lions can swim but rarely choose to, and it's curious that they came to be so intimately- associated with water. A friend who is part Potawatomi, (a people indigenous to the Great Lakes region) suggested that the mystery of the animal's hidden life became associated with the unknown underwater world. Potawatomis wove the image of the Underwater Panther, master of underworld forces, into one side of the fiber bags that held medicine objects, and the Thunderbird, master of the powers above, into the other. At least as late as the 1950s, the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians performed their traditional ceremony to placate the Underworld Panther and maintain balance with the Thunderbird.
Visit our Social Network: TAGOTEE Pinterest, Twitter , Instagram and Our blog TAGOTEE over-blog, Tagotee blogspot
Comments
Post a Comment