[MD] lila waken

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

re, good stuff, btw, think i will look for a pdf to read it.

I'll keep rehashing the phrase", you have the words, but that is all...
I don't think it was the same book.
Have to go now, have to ride 120 miles today on my bicycle.
Adrie

2011/2/20 MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>

>
> Greetings,
>
> I found another reference to the word 'lila' in the Lame Deer book.  After
> googling, I found only a reference that suggests its meaning as 'very good',
> but I cannot be sure because many of the references were in Spanish.  In the
> book, 'lila wakan' is set in italics and is used to refer to a woman.
>
>
> Marsha
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>   "The beautiful woman spoke to the two hunters: "Do not be afraid.  I have
> come from the buffalo nation with a message for your people, a good
> message."  As he looked upon her, the older of the two hunters was overcome
> with a desire to possess her.  He stretched out his hand to touch her, but
> she was _lila wakan_, more than human, and had not come to gratify the lust
> of a man.  It is sometimes said that as soon as the hunter reached out to
> seize her a cloud descended and enveloped him.  After it dissolved, a heap
> of dry bones was all that was left of this man. This is not the only way the
> story is related, and it is not quite as the spirits have told me.  When the
> right time comes, and I feel able to do it, I shall talk more about his.
>  But one thing is certain---desire killed that man, as desire has killed
> many before and after him.  If this earth should be destroyed, it will be by
> desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed for the
> green frog skin, by
>  people who are mindful only of their own self, forgetting about the wants
> of others.
>
>   "So there was only one young hunter left, and the White Buffalo Woman
> told him to go back to his people and tell them to prepare for her coming.
>  She explained what she wanted them to do..."
>
>  (John (Fire) Lame Deer & Ricard Erdoes, 'Lame Deer, Seeker of
> Visions',p.266)
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> p.s. The phrase 'green frog skin' refers to U.S. money.
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