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All in Good Faith
SONGS FROM THE FAMILY OF CREATION
[Readers rise but stay at their places to read these texts; they do not speak from the lectern.!
Eskimo Woman Shaman, quoted by Rasmussen
Dawn Shegonee
The great sea Has sent me adrift, It moves me as the weed in a great river, Earth and the great weather move me, Have carried me away, And move my inward parts with joy.
SENG-T'SAN
George Hinger
One thing is all, all things are one - Know this and all is whole and complete.
BLACK ELK
Art Shegonee
I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the centre grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS
Audrey Hinger
Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
for rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
DEVARA DASIMAYYA
Daniel Gómez-lbáñez
Whatever It was
that made this earth the base, the world its life, the wind its pillar, arranged the lotus and the moon, and covered it all with folds of sky
with Itself inside.
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