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Source: Based on a tale reported by Grenville Goodwin in 1939
This his how ceremonies started among us for the curing of
sick people. Long, long ago, the earth was made.
Then the One Who Made the Earth also
planned for each person to have a piece of land that he could live on and
call his own.
Our people were
living in one
such place, but they didn't like that particular spot. So the One Who
Made the Earth
told them to move to a new location, and when they did, they slept well,
and liked it,
and lived in a good way. Then two men among them became sick and grew weaker and weaker day by
day.
The people
didn't do anything for them because no one knew then about illnesses and
how to cure them.
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The One Who Made the Earth said, "Why don't you do something
for those
two men_ Why don't
you say some words over them_"
But the people had no knowledge of curing
ceremonies.
Four men among the people happened to be standing, one to the east, one
to the south, one
to the west, and one to the north. The One Who Made the Earth spoke to
one of these
men, telling him, "Everything on earth has power to cause its own kind of sickness,
make its own trouble. There is a way to cure all these things."
Now this
man understood
that knowledge was available. Then those four stood there. On the first
night, other one
standing on the east side began to chant a set prayer all by himself. On
the second
night the one on the south started to drum and sing lightning songs. On
the third night,
the one on the west chanted a set prayer. On the fourth night, the one
on the north
began to drum and sing lightning songs.
They did not conceive this
pattern in their own
minds; it was bestowed upon them by the One Who Made the Earth. It was
as if the
knowledge was transmitted to them from outside.
Then the One Who Made the Earth said to these four, "Why don't you go to
the two sick men
and say some words over them and make them well_"
So those four went to
where the
two sick men were and worked over them, and they were cured.
From that
time on,
we had curing ceremonies and knowledge of the different kinds of
sickness that
may be caused by various things. That's the way all curing ceremonies
started.
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