Okay .. It is 1200 AD .. The Europeans have not arrived in the New World .. And you are the "chief" of a tribe in the Great Plains .. You will stay chief, only as long as you make decisionsthat serve the tribe well- mess up- then in council they will replace you with someone better qualified ..Now be the "scientific materialist" mindset you are now .. Okay, the tribe's "buffalo shaman" comes to you to advise you .. That job is his, with the same risks yours has .. but he has successfully been predicting buffalo migrations four years now- you are a new chief .. His qualifications are vision pits, visits to burial ground ... guidance from ghosts of buffalo shamans before him ... He tells you,"I had a dream last night that our Buffalo brother will be moving a hundred miles North ..
These buffalo are your tribes habitat,sustenance, clothing and tools .. Moving the tribe is a serious undertaking, a wrong decision could subject them to much hardship .. So ,do you chief trust your shaman's
2006-09-09
08:00:16
·
14 answers
·
asked by
gmonkai
4
in
Religion & Spirituality