From Old Wisdom to New Knowledge

It is said, that like the two Twin Warriors, Enemy Slayer and Child Born of the Water, has journey through monstrous, dangers, obstacles and powers that are beyond their being. As we journey in life, we are like those two Twin Warriors faced with all kinds of social ills, pressure, hungry of all kinds, poverty of all kinds, and stresses. Then when they defeated the monsters. The obstacles and misbalance in their life, is said to be the same as the experiences of us not eating and sleeping right because we worry, we experience pain, sorrow, death, divorce, physical and verbal abuses, evilness, envy, the up and downs of our careers.

The disharmony normally is evident by hair loss, lacks shine and body, and color change. In order to rebalance our spiritual being, we must heal ourselves through songs and prayers. Our left side of the body is the Enemy Way and Beauty Way on our right hand side. The Enemy Way side lies all the ceremonies that will address us in protection way, male way. The right hand side of the body lies the Beauty Way. We must take care of both sides so that our mental and physical being is peaceful, healthy and beautiful. Otherwise, we are losing focus on the purpose of life.

There are songs for everything in life so we know the truth purpose in life. The combing of the hair song, the tying of the hair song, the brushing song, the hair string song, and there is hard goods and Materialist soft good songs. There are also songs for the unwounded buckskin, mountain and traveling songs for journeying in beauty of life, thinking, teaching, children, sheep, hogan, horses, earth, stars, dawn and talking gods, and leadership to help us stay focus and respect for all things.

The hair can not be thrown away into the trash can, into the water, and out into nature. When we cut our hair, we should ask for the hair and take back with us. There is a bush called snake brush. This bush has a long strong root. This is what we should use to burn our hair with. We don't need to burn all the hair, only about a spoonful. The ash is what we rub between our hands and then rub it to our hair. As we rub it to our hair we pray or sing. This will give us long healthy hair and restore our mental and physical being. It is said, if we throw our hair to nature, rodents, reptiles, insect, birds, wind and lightening may get it. These are spirit - good and bad. Often it is bad because it will alter our health and mind.

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