THE ORIGINS OF OGLALA DAKOTA RELIGION
Joseph Campbell speaks of the "Twilight of the Great Hunt," referring to the culture of the North American Plains. According to him, Franco-Cantabrian Aurignacian culture is echoed in the buffalo jump, sacred pipe, sun dance, and medicine wheel.' He finds archaic Animal Master motifs...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
1988
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 1988, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 184-191 |
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Religion
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| Summary: | Joseph Campbell speaks of the "Twilight of the Great Hunt," referring to the culture of the North American Plains. According to him, Franco-Cantabrian Aurignacian culture is echoed in the buffalo jump, sacred pipe, sun dance, and medicine wheel.' He finds archaic Animal Master motifs in the Blackfoot myth of the girl who marries the buffalo bull and is taught the life-restoring buffalo dance. He also finds hints of the Eurasian Paleolithic in the Oglala Lakota myth of White Buffalo Maiden and the Gift of the Sacred Pipe2 The late Mircea Eliade found paleolithic mythic significance in the widespread mythic motif of the animal who is sent to the bottom of a lake or the sea to bring up the soil from which the world is made.s With variations, this myth recurs throughout North Eurasia and North America. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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