The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday August 27th, 2022
BLESSING WAY & PRAYER of the INTERIOR FORMS of the EARTH by David Sparenberg
The Navajo (Dine) people of the American southwest practice sacred ceremonies and prayers of Hozho (Blessing) to renew the order of creation: confirm or reset the proper relationships between human communities and the other-than-human communities of our mutually inhabited biosphere. This is the Blessing Way, the way of respect, appropriate alignment, of coming into, or returning to, original at-onement. Within the elaborate Blessing Way Ceremony humans are not viewed or treated as a breed apart, but are significant participants in intricate, inter-related and interdependent, global, even cosmic, eco-systems. Within this interdimensional dynamic, sometimes called the Sacred Hoop of Creation, humans have a specific role, the role of embodying, articulating, memorializing, prayers of time-space renewals and ceremonies reenacting primordial appropriation (role and placement) and resulting harmony.
Within the Blessing Way is the prayer called the Navajo Prayer of the Interior Forms of the Earth, the shortened title of which is simply Earth Prayer. A visionary sensibility is required to be able to “know;” to be relational, even intimate, with the interior (spiritual/relationship) forms, present everywhere, of elaborately diverse Earth entities.
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The Innocence Of Youth #poem & #photography by Nikos Laios
“A hot summer afternoon,
A vivid blue sky,
The arching bridge,
The reeds bathed
In golden sunlight “
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Fika bonding! #41 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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