Sign In . Don't have a World Wisdom ID? Sign Up
Treasures of the World's Religions
How can we understand Native American traditions?
What are the "Foundations of Christian Art?"
Insights into the early Christian Desert Fathers and Mothers
Every Branch In Me: Who are we as "human" beings?
A Definition of the Perennial Philosophy
Books about Buddhism
Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women"
World Wisdom's Spiritual Classics series
Light on the Ancient Worlds: A Brief Survey of the Book by Frithjof Schuon
Slideshows
  Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women" Back to the List of Slideshows
    
Slide 6 of 14




When Changing Woman gets to be a certain old age, she goes walking toward the east. After a while she sees herself in the distance looking like a young girl walking toward her. They both walk until they come together and after that there is only one. She is like a young girl again.

Apache




In the beginning Tse che nako, Thought Woman, finished everything, thoughts, and the names of all things. She finished also all the languages. And then our mothers, Uretsete and Naotsete said they would make names and they would make thoughts. Thus they said. Thus they did. She (Tse che nako) is mother of us all; after Her, mother earth follows, in fertility, in holding, and taking us again back to her breast.

From the Keres Indians of Laguna Pueblo




We as Indian people have never forgotten the status of women. Those who have gotten away from the traditions may act as if they don’t remember, but all of us know inside. Our memories are long, as long as the line of the generations. The elders have always passed on this knowledge. We have been told to never forget. So we remember and pass it on, too. With us there is no past, everything is now, and the only future is the generations to come.

Anonymous Native American woman


"Our memories are long, as long as the line of the generations."
Back to the List of Slideshows



Home | Books | DVDs | Authors | eProducts | Members | Slideshows | Library | Image-Gallery | Links | About Us




Privacy Statement
Copyright © 2008