RE: Native Americans Spirituality
June 11, 2018 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2018 at 11:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 11, 2018 at 10:53 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Add it to the sins the white man did, eradicating this culture and destroy it.
Native Americans had an interesting spiritual culture that got erased totally, leaving only ashes behind.
Added to the pile. Think of all the interesting middle eastern, mediterranean, and european "spiritual cultures" that no longer exist. Victims of abraham, the lot of em. A whole world victimized by a religion that simply could not stand to coexist with it;s peers.
As a point of interest, native american culture was unremarkable in the scope of its context. It had vast commonality with shamanic traditions that existed in the stone age worldwide. There were a few remarkable outliers, but most of them the spanish dealt with right off the bat. It;s a massive irony, to me..that I find the worlds religions past and present interesting in a way that the religious...well...just don;t. I understand why. On some level..every religious person thinks that they already know what their magic book is talking about..further..that their magic book got it right. I, otoh..wonder what their day to day life was like such that these common narratives expressed themselves in precisely the way they did over spans of time and geography.
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