Year 5-784 and the Sundance Lodge

 Another echo of sacred ceremony. This year is the Jewish year 784 of the sixth millennium of the Jewish arrow of prayer in time. 784 = the square of 28 and here we see that the number 28 being a lunar number is also the number of ribs of a buffalo:

"Today, Sundance takes place on sacred ground. The circular structure where the ceremony occurs is commonly known as the Sundance Lodge, and in the centre is the tree of life, symbolic of creation. It is important to remember every lodge is unique and may be called something different.

Among Lakota people, the arbour itself is constructed of 28 trees, with 14 on each side, branches reaching across from left to right—the trees symbolic of the ribs of the buffalo.

The 28 ribs of the buffalo speaks to the teaching of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, acknowledging the female life giver and the 28 days of a woman’s menstrual cycle, signifying fertility, procreation and birth.

Those allowed in the lodge are the Sundance Chief, Sundance Elders, special guests, healers, drummers/singers, helpers and, of course, the dancers.

In many cases, men and women can dance among each other, sometimes separated on each side of the lodge; in some instances, only men can dance.

The decision to participate in Sundance is very personal. You must have a reason to dance. People attend Sundance for a variety of reasons; for their own healing, for help with addiction, for the healing of a loved one who is sick and cannot dance themselves, for family, for one’s community, or for the healing of Mother Earth and all beings in nature.

While not all Sundance ceremonies include piercing, the object of Sundance is to give something to Creator to have your prayers heard and answered." from The four-day ceremony is an act of spiritual expression and intention towards Creator that should extend beyond the four days into a person’s everyday life."

Teaching by: Sundance Chief Shane Patterson, Dakota from the Yankton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, USA

Excerpts from SAY Magazine:

https://saymag.com/the-sacred-sundance/

The native elders have been expecting a blood covenanted priestly lineage who also honor the sacred Etz Chaiim/tree of Life (like the sundancers) to come from over the Atlantic Ocean and help heal the "Sacred hoop of the peoples" and build a new lodge of Peace for the entire Earth.

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                                                                                       Wakan Gli White Bison calf born at Close                                                                                    passage Comet 12p

                                                       Sundance Lodge Lakota