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Namaste

 

Aum Amriteswaryai Namaha

 

Just a few thoughts about Amma's work with First Nations People. There

was an implication that Amma's work would be another bandaid.

Personally, believe there is much greater potential. Many tribes have

different perspectives, but many of the tribes deeply honor the Divine

Feminine because of the connection with Mother Earth.

 

Much of Native America has had a deep spiritual wound resulting from

the prohibited expression of their spirituality. With the plunder of

life, land, culture, and religion by the " spirit of domination " i

believe any work that Amma and Her Children do will be so much more than

cosmetic, but rather can have the potential for deep healing. Amma's

message and being is so congruent with the rich Native Spiritualiy. We

all know the history and in order to bring back 'to-gather' a person,

or a culture that has been shattered, it takes an equal and opposite

force to bring it back together. I believe Amma as Divine Mother along

with the synthesis of All Truths---Love and Serve breathing through the

thousands can be the counter-force that can help bring deep healing. But

She needs us to help Her. I think Temba is asking us to join and be

links in the chain for Amma. For the last couple of weeks we have

probably all contemplated the economic future of our Nation and the

personal ramifications. Maybe in this we can open deeper to what Native

America has experience for " too many long years " . Surely any time we

give anyone a " hand-out " we are giving ourselves a " hand-up " through our

own karma and the grace of God/dess we all will trade places many

times. Surely most of our problems come from a fearful pointing finger

rather than hands of goodness and love that reach-out and shake or hands

that point upwards in prayers and Namaste. I know for myself it it

such a simple powerful choice and have failed enought to know--- one is

heaven, and the other hell.

 

I am adding this article on the Cherokee Perspective of God and Gender

and think you will see how congruent it is with Amma's teachings.

 

Aum Amriteswaryai Namaha

 

In Amma's Love, also known by some of us as the Red Goddess, the

Thousand Arm Goddess, the Great Mother of ALL.

 

marci

 

 

 

Cherokee Perspective

Why " God the Father " Became " God the Great-Grandmother "

[http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/616575/user/112140/brian_wilke\

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<http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/616575/user/112140/brian_wilke\

s.html> By Brian Wilkes

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/616575/user/112140/brian_wilke\

s.html> , When St. Jerome translated the Greek Bible into

Latin, he addressed the question of gender as he crossed the language

lines:

 

In the Gospel of the Hebrews that the Nazarenes read it says, " Just now

my mother, the Holy Spirit, took me. " Now no one should be offended by

this, because " spirit " in Hebrew is feminine, while in our language

[Latin] it is masculine and in Greek it is neuter. In divinity, however,

there is no gender.

 

- Jerome's Commentary on Isaiah 11

 

Being a genderless language, Cherokee <http://www.speakcherokee.com/>

addresses these questions differently. The words most often used to

address a supreme deity in monotheistic pre-contact Cherokee culture are

proper names, which cannot be presented or discussed here. The most

common name since contact is Unetlanvhi, translated as apportioner,

measurer, or provider. This name is originally associated with the sun

goddess, who is also addressed as Red Woman or Beloved Woman. By

association, if not by grammar, it can be considered a feminine word.

 

The Cherokee word, agayvli, can mean " ancestor " or " thousand. " The

singular word by itself usually means " great-grandmother " or the oldest

living matriarch.

 

A few years ago, a pastor of Cherokee ancestry was trying to include

more Cherokee language in her ministry. She came across the command for

baptism in Matthew 28:19, " In the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy

Spirit. " The Cherokee New Testament renders it " Dudoa Agayvli, ale

Uwetsi, ale Adanvdo Galiquodiyu. " She was confused because the word for

used for Father, Agayvli, was not one she knew. Looking it up, she was

even more confused when the dictionary gave it as " great-grandmother. "

 

I explained that in a matrilineal culture, the female ancestry was

superior to the male. " God the Father " had been promoted to " God the

Great-Grandmother, " so he could have ultimate authority! Any one who has

dealt with a Cherokee great-grandmother knows what I'm talking about. As

a female pastor, she got a kick out of this.The word used for Son,

Uwetsi, is genderless, and could mean a daughter

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/1574/daughter.html> or the seed

of a plant, or the poetic 'seed' meaning a line of descendants. Adanvdo

Galiquodiyu, Holy Spirit, is a post-contact construction, and could also

be translated as 'Sacred Heart. "

 

The Cherokee were known as the scribes, or record-keepers, or

accountants

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/201/accountants.html> of the

Southeast. From our calendar, we know that we dealt with long periods of

time and astronomical movements. Agayvli also means " thousand, " because

the higher numbers were used by the elders and ancestors.

 

In our stories, we came to earth from the stars, from Heaven. Our

ancestors are there, and our oldest ancestor, male

<http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/1627/male.html> or female, is

Almighty God. We set a place for them at our tables, a thousand

generations of ancestors and a thousand generations of descendants, and

we look forward to being reunited with them all someday at the banquet

table set for us in Heaven.