Hi, The story that you, Sadhana, allude to below varies a bit from the actual
version which was told to me by men of that tribe. The variance may or may not
affect the interpretation of it. One is that I do not have the understanding
that this young person was a "young warrior" yet in any sense of that word. I
understood that he was still a child, although an older child. Also, I am not
sure we can state exactly what his purpose was. Whatever he had in mind
though, he sacrificed his life for this.
The other point I found interesting was the significance of the tribe in
keeping his memory alive and his story told for centuries. In western society
these kinds of stories are usually moments of embarrassment for the community
in both the expressed foolishness that the child had in his actions and in the
possible guilt of the tribal community. I find this interesting because the
dynamic that has been consistently revealed is not a dynamic we in western
culture would normally hold dear.
Perhaps he had a great desire to find that place between prey and predator.
Perhaps not. He nevertheless gave his life for his curiosity. Perhaps this
itself is the creative message. Like the quest of Adam and Eve for knowledge,
the effects may sometimes lead us to great sacrifice.
In systemic terms, it appears there was a calling to death for this young
person, this child. Perhaps there was not enough in the tribe and he offered
himself so others may have. Perhaps he had lost his mother at birth and sought
to balance that system. We do not know. For me, the wonder is that this story
has been treated like the story of a great hero in the way it has been kept
alive and now as a World Heritage Site, it will continue to exist into the long
distant future. That is where the mystery lies for me. When the story is
told, it is not told of a brave young warrior hero but rather the members of
that tribe today, tell it as a tale of foolishness and its dire consequences.
What that says I am not sure, but I do know in my experience it is the kind of
tale we hear in fairy tales that seem to warn of great dangers and calamities.
The foolish little pig who built his house of straw comes to mind.
Anni
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kay Needham
<familyconstellationinfo@...> wrote:
ANNI - HEAD SMASHED IN BUFFALO JUMP
This story was of great value to me in this search. The young warrior chose
to learn about what happened to Prey. His focus was not the "will to
annihilate" with the masculine. He went to the bottom silently supported in
his aloneness by the feminine to recieve knowledge of how prey or victims
become food and serve life. His love was for the victims and prey. To do this
he had to look from the bottom up, not the top down. He wanted to understand
what was there in the gap between life and death, predators and prey, fight
and flight, fear and love, night and day............what happened to prey
before it became food. The smashing of the head is symbolic. What happens
here is hidden in the dark night of the soul, it is recreation.
