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Help[Facts] Re: Potluck Eagle Bake --
in reply to a message by Gia Nadine
It all stems from a story about a conversation between the Great Spirit and an eagle.
Great Spirit was angry at what man (humans) were doing, and S/he (Great Spirit doesn't have a gender, so I'll use s/he when talking about him/her) planned on destroying this world again. A lone eagle went before Great Spirit and pleaded our (man's) case. Great Spirit responded that as long as at least one man lives "in balance", this world would be spared, but Eagle would have to fly around and find proof, then bring it before Him/Her. That is why the eagles fly the way they do, because S/he (Great Spirit) has them (the eagles) monitoring us, and as long as they fly, man will be safe.
That is kinda the "Readers Digest" version. If you can find a copy of What My Elders Taught Me by John Boatman (my professor) I think it has one rendition of the actual story in it. It's an American Indian legend (or it could be true, metaphysically), so there might be other renditions elsewhere.
Phyllis
Great Spirit was angry at what man (humans) were doing, and S/he (Great Spirit doesn't have a gender, so I'll use s/he when talking about him/her) planned on destroying this world again. A lone eagle went before Great Spirit and pleaded our (man's) case. Great Spirit responded that as long as at least one man lives "in balance", this world would be spared, but Eagle would have to fly around and find proof, then bring it before Him/Her. That is why the eagles fly the way they do, because S/he (Great Spirit) has them (the eagles) monitoring us, and as long as they fly, man will be safe.
That is kinda the "Readers Digest" version. If you can find a copy of What My Elders Taught Me by John Boatman (my professor) I think it has one rendition of the actual story in it. It's an American Indian legend (or it could be true, metaphysically), so there might be other renditions elsewhere.
Phyllis
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Eagle Legend
Thanks for sharing that, Phyllis . :) BTW, I think you'd mentioned under another posting that you had a copy of Starhawk's *The Spiral Dance*. Miriam Simos (a.k.a. Starhawk) was one of the pioneers (in my opinion, and others I'm sure) of the modern neo-pagan movement in the U.S .
I just dug out her book from a shelf in my private library, and I'm going now through her Tables of Correspondences at the back to try to put together a database of words from that section that can be used in conjunction with my Native American database for anagraming Native American/Magical names for people.
Will have to run your name and others through it when it's done, and see what the Anagram Oracle declares your Magick Names should be. :)
-- Nanaea
Thanks for sharing that, Phyllis . :) BTW, I think you'd mentioned under another posting that you had a copy of Starhawk's *The Spiral Dance*. Miriam Simos (a.k.a. Starhawk) was one of the pioneers (in my opinion, and others I'm sure) of the modern neo-pagan movement in the U.S .
I just dug out her book from a shelf in my private library, and I'm going now through her Tables of Correspondences at the back to try to put together a database of words from that section that can be used in conjunction with my Native American database for anagraming Native American/Magical names for people.
Will have to run your name and others through it when it's done, and see what the Anagram Oracle declares your Magick Names should be. :)
-- Nanaea
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As Phyllis said, no biggie about the spelling, Gia . I mean, you're not a schoolteacher and it's not like we're paying you our hard-earned tax dollars to set any kind of standard of excellence for America's young minds. :) (I'm hard on teachers, but... eh! :)
And Phyllis and I, too, can misspell words all we want, coz nobody's paying us either for what we spew forth.
Phyllis is your Wicca 101 Instructor, and I be da Professor o' Cool! :)
-- Nanaea
And Phyllis and I, too, can misspell words all we want, coz nobody's paying us either for what we spew forth.
Phyllis is your Wicca 101 Instructor, and I be da Professor o' Cool! :)
-- Nanaea
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Gia Nadine
Don't worry about spelling. I've encountered a few professors that rely on Spell Check, dictionaries and thesauri more than the regular textbooks. Besides, I rely on Spell Check and Grammar Check when writing term papers, too.
Another funny thing is that some textbooks and other published material have spelling errors in them, too.
Phyllis
Don't worry about spelling. I've encountered a few professors that rely on Spell Check, dictionaries and thesauri more than the regular textbooks. Besides, I rely on Spell Check and Grammar Check when writing term papers, too.
Another funny thing is that some textbooks and other published material have spelling errors in them, too.
Phyllis
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