Posted by giveawayboy on May 02, 2003 at 22:03:58:
I do not try to interpret dreams, even if I thought I could. Still, I
would like to say that I had a dream once about a boy who was wearing
a buffalo suit. The lives of the people in our country were once tied to the land and esp. to the buffalo. So at times our spirituality was very tied to the buffalo who moved across mother earth.
Anyway, back to my dream. i was in a small general store at the end of America somewhere, where the land had been destroyed. I was watching a
documentary on the downfall of the buffalo. There was this huge section on the way
the lives of the buffalo and the lives of humans were a symbol of the
unity of all life. And so the lives of buffalo and men and the earth
had been tied together by God. The documentary showed this noble history but also it showed the pain and suffering that the buffalo took on themselves which also the people took on themselves, since our lives were knit together by the Creator. We shared glory and pain.
Then this mysterious boy comes into the general store. He is youthful and handsome,
but he looked a little beat up, sort of sickly, sort of a survivor. He was dressed from the
neck down in the furs of a buffalo. I turned from the documentary I
was watching which showed the buffalo being slaughtered and skinned.
Then I saw this boy who walked in and began to talk w the merchant at
the counter. He looked tired and I think he was asking for a drink. At
one point he turned to me and he unzipped the suit of buffalo fur he
was wearing to reveal his thin body in a tightly fitting pair of grey undergarments.
Then, he removed them and stood there wearing only his flesh, looking me in the eye. I knew suddenly what he was saying. He was
showing me how the humans and the buffalo are all related and how it is God's sacred way that we shared life on mother earth.
This was a powerful dream for me. Since I dreamt it I have revered
all life more than ever. When I hear our old American holy songs of
the buffalo and the land and the people and the Creator, I feel a
deep sense of real worship inside me. This is more real than any
doctrinal system or creed or powertrip. It is the purest religion I
know and it remind me of what Jesus taught that to love others is of
the same importance as loving God and in fact all religious duty and
law falls under this one commandment. Love. This is not just for
Native Americans or Christians. This is for whosoever will
take it. It is even for those who don't want to take it.