White Buffalo Calf Woman told by Crow DOG

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White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother

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The Sioux are a warrior tribe, and one of their proverbs says, "Woman shall not walk before man." Yet White Buffalo Woman is the dominant figure of their most important legend. The medicine man Crow Dog explains, "This holy woman brought the sacred buffalo calf pipe to the Sioux. There could be no Indians without it. Before she came, people didnt know how to live. They knew nothing. The Buffalo Woman put her sacred mind into their minds." At the ritual of the sun dance one woman, usally a mature and universally respected member of the tribe, is given the honor of respresenting Buffalo Woman.
Though she first appeared to the Sioux in human form, White Buffalo Woman was also a buffalo---the Indians' brother, who gave its flesh so that the people might live. Albino buffalo were sacred to all Plains tribes; a white buffalo hide was a sacred talisman, a possession beyond price. 

One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the Oceti-Shakowin, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Oyate, the nation, came together and camped. The sun shone all the time, but there was no game and the people were starving. Every day they sent scouts to look for game, but the scouts found nothing.
Among the bands assembled were the Itazipcho, the Without-Bows, who had their own camp circle under their chief, Standing Hollow Horn. Early one morning the chief sent two of his young men to hunt for game. They went on foot, because at that time the Sioux didnt yet have horses. They searched everywhere but could find nothing. Seeing a high hill, they decided to climb it in order to look over the whole country. Halfway up, they saw something coming toward them from far off, but the figure was floating instead of walking. From this they knew that the person was waken, holy. 

At first they could make out only a small moving speck and had to squint to see that it was a human form. But as it came nearer, they realized that it was a beautiful young woman, more beautiful than any they had ever seen, with two round, red dots of face paint on her cheeks. She wore a wonderful white buckskin outfit, tanned until it shone a long way in the sun. It was embroidered with sacred and marvellous designs of porcupine quill, in radiant colors no ordinary woman could have made. This wakan stranger was Ptesan-Wi, White Buffalo Woman. In her hands she carried a large bundle and a fan of sage leaves. She wore her blue-black hair loose except for a strand at the left side, which was tied up with buffalo fur. Her eyes shone dark and sparkling, with great power in them.

The two young men looked at her open-mouthed. One was overawed, but the other desired her body and stretched his hand out to touch her. This woman was lila wakan, very sacred, and could not be treated with disrespect. Lightning instantly struck the brash young man and burned him up, so that only a small heap of blackened bones was left. Or as some say that he was suddenly covered by a cloud, and within it he was eaten up by snakes that left only his skeleton, just as a man can be eaten up by lust.

To the other scout who had behaved rightly, the White Buffalo Woman said: "Good things I am brining, something holy to your nation. A message I carry for your people from the buffalo nation. Go back to the camp and tell the people to prepare for my arrival. Tell your chief to put up a medicine lodge with twenty-four poles. Let it be made holy for my coming."

This young hunter returned to the camp. He told the chief, he told the people, what the sacred woman had commanded. The chief told the eyapaha, the crier, and the crier went through the camp circle calling: "Someone sacred is coming. A holy woman approaches. Make all things ready for her." So the people put up the big medicine tipi and waited. After four days they saw the White Buffalo Woman approaching, carrying her bundle before her. Her wonderful white buckskin dress shone from afar. The chief, Standing Hollow Horn, invited her to enter the medicine lodge. She went in and circled the interior sunwise. The chief addressed her respectfully, saying: "Sister, we are glad you have come to instruct us."

She told him what she wanted done. In the center of the tipi they were to put up an owanka wakan, a sacred altar, made of red earth, with a buffalo skull and a three-stick rack for a holy thing she was bringing. They did what she directed, and she traced a design with her finger on the smoothed earth of the altar. She show them how to do all this, then circled the lodge again sunwise. Halting before the chief, she now opened the bundle. the holy thing it contained was the chanunpa, the sacred pipe. She held it out to the people and let them look at it. She was grasping the stem with her right hand and the bowl with her left, and thus the pipe has been held ever since.

Again the chief spoke, saying: "Sister, we are glad. We have had no meat for some time. All we can give you is water." They dpped some wacanga, sweet grass, into a skin bag of water and gave it to her, and to this day the people dip sweet grass or an eagle wing in water and sprinkle it on a person to be purified.

The White Buffalo Woman showed the people how to use the pipe. She filled it with chan-shasha, red willow-bark tobacco. She walked around the lodge four times after the manner of Anpetu-Wi, the great sun. This represented the circle without end, the sacred hoop, the road of life. The woman placed a dry buffalo chip on the fire and lit the pipe with it. This was peta-owihankeshini, the fire without end, the flame to be passed on from generation to generation. She told them that the smoke rising from the bowl was Tunkashila's breath, the living breath of the great Grandfather Mystery.

The White Buffalo Woman showed the people the right way to pray, the right words and the right gestures. She taught them how to sing the pipe-filling song and how to lift the pipe up to the sky, toward Grandfather, and down toward Grandmother Earth, to Unci, and then to the four directions of the universe.

"With this holy pipe," she said, "you will walk like a living prayer. With your feet resting upon the earth and the pipestem reaching into the sky, your body froms a living bridge between the Sacred Beneath and the Sacred Above. Wakan Tanka smiles upons us, because now we are as one: earth, sky, all living things, the two-legged, the four-legged, the winged ones, the trees, the grasses. Together with the people, they are all related, one family. The pipe holds them all together."

"Look at this bowl," said the White Buffalo Woman. "Its stone represents the buffalo, but also the flesh and blood of the red man. The buffalo represents the universe and the four directions, because he stands on four legs, for the four ages of man. The buffalo was put in the west by Wakan Tanka at the making of the world, to hold back the waters. Every year he loses one hair, and in every one of the four ages he loses a leg. The Sacred Hoop will end when all the hair and legs of the great buffalo are gone, and the water comes back to cover the Earth.

The wooden stem of this chanunpa stands for all that grows on the earth. Twelve feathers hanging from where the stem- the backbone- joins the bowl- the skull- are from Wanblee Galeshka, the spotted eagle, the very sacred who is the Great Spirit's messenger and the wisest of all cry out to Tunkashila. Look at the bowl: engraved in it are seven circles of various sizes. They stand for the seven ceremonies you will pratice with this pipe, and for the Ocheti Shakowin, the seven sacred campfires of our Lakota nation."

The White Buffalo Woman then spoke to the women, telling them that it was the work of their hands and the fruit of their bodies which kept the people alive. "You are from the mother earth," she told them. "What you are doing is as great as what warriors do."

And therefore the sacred pipe is also something that binds men and women together in a circle of love. It is the one holy object in the making of which both men and women have a hand. The men carve the bowl and make the stem; the women decorate it with bands of colored porcupine quills. When a man takes a wife, they both hold the pipe at the same time and red cloth is wound around their hands, thus tying them together for life.

The White Buffalo Woman had many things for her Lakota sisters in her sacred womb bag; corn, wasna (pemmican), wild turnip. She taught how to make the hearth fire. She filled a buffalo paunch with cold water and droped a red-hot stone into it. "This way you shall cook the corn and the meat," she told them.

The White Buffalo Woman also talked to the children, because they have an understanding beyond their years. She told them that what their fathers and mothers did was for them, that their parents could remember being little once, and that they, the children, would grow up to have little ones of their own. She told them: "You are the coming generation, that's why you are the most important and precious ones. Some day you will hold this pipe and smoke it. Some day you will pray with it."

She spoke once more to all the people: "The pipe is alive; it is a red being showing you a red life and a red road. And this is the first ceremony for which you will use the pipe. You will use it to Wakan Tanka, the Great Mystery Spirit. The day a human dies is always a sacred day. The day when the soul is released to the Great Spirit is another. Four women will become sacred on such a day. They will be the ones to cut the sacred tree, the can-wakan, for the sun dance." 

She told the Lakota that they were the purest among the tribes, and for that reason Tunkashila had bestowed upon them the holy chanunpa. They had been chosen to take care of it for all the Indian people on this turtle continent.

She spoke one last time to Standing Hollow Horn, the chief, saying, "Remember: this pipe is very sacred. Respect it and it will take you to the end of the road. The four ages of creation are in me; I am the four ages. I will come to see you in every generation cycle. I shall come back to you."

The sacred woman then took leave of the people, saying: "Toksha ake wacinyanktin ktelo, I shall see you again." 

The people saw her walking off in the same direction from which she had come, outlined againest the red ball of the setting sun. As she went, she stopped and rolled over four times. The first time, she turned into a black buffalo; the second into a brown one; the third into a red one; and finally, the fouth time she rolled over, she turned into a white female buffalo calf. A white buffalo is the most sacred living thing you could ever encounter.

The White Buffalo Woman disappeared over the Horizon. Sometime she might come back. As soon as she had vanished, buffalo in great herds appeared, allowing themselves to be killed so tha the people might survive. And from that day on, our relations, the buffalo, furnished the people with everthing they needed, meat for their food, skins for their clothes and tipis, bones for their many tools. 


END



Two very old tribal pipes are kept by the Looking Horse family at Eagle Butte in South Dakota. One of them is the Sacred Pipe brought to the people by White Buffalo Woman.

White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother

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Friend do it this way - that is
Whatever you do in life
Do the very best you can
With both your heart and mind

And if you do it that way
The Power Of The Universe
Will come to your assistance
If your heart and mind are in Unity

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People
One must be responsible because
All of Creation is related
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all
And the honor of one is the honor of all
And whatever we do
Affects everything in the Universe

If you do it that way - that is
If you truly join your heart and mind
As One - whatever you ask for
That’s the way it’s going to be

(passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman)

White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother

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White Buffalo Calf Woman Painting
"Toksha ake wacinyanktin ktelo -- I shall see you again."
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WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN... EXPAND FOR STORY...

The messenger to the Lakota who visited the people in ancient times and, as we believe, taught them about the forgotten star map involving a ritual of the CHANUNPA, the cosmic pipe that 'links the worlds' and is known as the 'hollow bamboo or reed' by southern tribes. It was a teaching tool of the celestial conduits also known as snake-holes... portals, that is. The messenger lady came from the region of the 3 sunlike stars near the 7 stars of the Pleiades, hence the teaching of the star map found globally. It is also why there were 'seven circles' placed on the bowl of her pipe, the stem of which, in a cleverly designed artistic way, would lead one to the sky position of the most important of the sunlike stars in question (visually close to the Pleiades), much like a guider tool. Needless to say, tribes all over North America practiced buffalo veneration and this appears to show a very ancient knowledge of constellation Taurus as it was always known in Europe and the Near East too... a bull or cow, the constellation where the Pleiades and sun stars are found - the reason for placing a solar disc between a bull's horns as seen painted on the Tipi tents of the Native peoples too. According to the legend, during the meeting, she traced a 'design' in the red earth altar in the middle of the Tipi lodge, something I believe to have been the trinity of sun stars pattern, based on a drawing of Lakota cosmogony that involves the same star map and 3 stars joined in a triangle placed within the pipe-hollow reed conduit. The messenger essentially asked the people to keep the pipe ritual alive in order to remind them of their 'heavenly' origins and that future generations convey this sacred knowledge. The buffalo bone of the pipe with the 7 Pleiades was meant to mark the 'human flesh and bone' as well, the human origins from that region, put nice and clear. It is said that her circling the lodge was meant to imitate the manner of the 'Great Sun' (a solar disc shape), a sun in Taurus as the star map suggests. Another special part of the visitation is her departure during which she walked off towards the horizon, 'rolled over' several times while transforming herself into a series of different colored 'buffalos'... or something that looked like a buffalo as I believe based on similar ancient narrations of 'holy men' leaving the earthly peoples. Curiously, in the other half of the world, the Mongolian legends recorded in their national lore, speak of a shining man who often visited Alan Gua, an ancestral mother of Genghis Khan's lineage. The man descended through the tent-hole and caused the lady to become pregnant through a light absorbed by her belly. Much like the Lakota messenger, the strange visitor left towards the horizon in a twisting yellow 'dog'. Both animals, the buffallo and the dog are four-legged and one standing afar could, perhaps, likened a cosmic flying craft & landing gear to animals' silhouettes. Even Islam's Qoran records Buraq, a horse with 'extendable legs' that flew over mountains and carried the prophet and angel. Another two special details in the Lakota legend are the 12 feathers and the triple-stick rack that held the pipe. I believe the latter was commanded by the messenger by no coincidence - soon I'm going to present another case for a triple-leg altar placed above bulls. If a genuine detail of the story, it probably relates to the 'three pillars' mythology, celebration of the three sun stars by earthly markers. As for the feathers, southern tribe mythologies make it clear that in the beginning, in other worlds that existed beyond ours, perhaps those of the sun stars, there were 12 nations who were advanced and traveled down the 'hollow reed' or pipe conduits to our world too. Is it a coincidence that Abrahamic mythology also traces its roots to 12 tribes? More on the story and connections to follow. Until then, make sure to check out the complete Lakota star map page that covers the REAL SECRET of Devil's Tower here:

http://thehiddenrecords.com/lacota-devils-tower-pleiades

For the best, detailed text on the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman, see here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A-EGZNSzwxkAJ%3Awww.ilhawaii.net%2F%7Estony%2Fdcmyths.html+&cd=13&hl=hu&ct=clnk&gl=hu

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