10/13/2023 0 Comments Heyoka black elk speaks![]() ![]() Now walking six steps away from the pot, one for each of the Powers, he turned to the west, offering the head and spine to the thunder beings, then to Then Wachpanne singed the dog and washed it well, and after that he cut away everything but the head, the spine and the tail. Three times they pulled the rope gently, one at each end of the rope, and the fourth time they jerked it hard, breaking the neck. Then two heyokas tied a slip noose in the rope and put this over the neck of the dog. Over the smoke of the sweet grass a rawhide rope was held to make it sacred. Then the dog had to be killed quickly and without making any scar, as lightning kills, for it is the power of the lightning that heyokas have. He sat beside the fire with some sweet grass in his hand, and said: "To the Great Spirit's day, to that day grown old and wise, I will make an offering." Then, as he sprinkled the grass upon the fire and the sweet smoke arose, he sang: First, he had to make an offering of sweet grass to the west. People to gather in a circle on the flat near Pine Ridge, and in the center, near a sacred tepee that was set there, he placed a pot of water which was made to boil by dropping hot stones from a fire into it. There was a man by the name of Wachpanne (Poor) who took charge of this ceremony for me, because he had acted as a heyoka many times and knew all about it. And so I think that is what the heyoka ceremony is for. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. ![]() You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.īut in the heyoka ceremony, everything is backwards, and it is planned that the people shall be made to feel jolly and happy first, so that it may be easier for the power to come to them. When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. ![]() They have sacred power and they share some of this with all the people, but they do it through funny actions. Only those who have had visions of the thunder beings of the west can act as heyokas. But before I tell you how we did it, I will say something about heyokas and the heyoka ceremony, which seems to be very foolish, but is not so. Twenty days passed, and it was time to perform the dog vision with heyokas. ![]()
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