Re: Potz Blitz!

Geschrieben von basecampUSA am 02. Juni 2006 01:47:40:

Als Antwort auf: Re: Potz Blitz! geschrieben von Humorvoller Bunkerbauer am 02. Juni 2006 00:38:16:

>>>Freitag abend bin ich beim blitzschlag getroffen, stieg gerade ins auto und machte die tuer zu wie es passierte... wenns bruchsekunde frueher gescheh, haette ich dies nie geschrieben...
>>You know (of course I think;-) what the Indians say about those people?
>Ich bin gespannt! Was sagen denn die "native Americans" zu einem, den der Blitz verfehlt hat? :-)
>HB

Lightning and thunder are caused by supernatural beings known as the "Divine Ones," Wakâdja. These beings are conventionally called "Thunders," and since they usually take the form of various birds, they are also called "Thunderbirds." When they flap their wings, they produce a clap of thunders, and when their wings strike a cloud, it rains. [1] The arch-enemies of the Thunders are the Waterspirits, who live underground in caves. When the Divine Ones strike their subterranean enemies where they live, a rumbling thunder is heard. [2] Their weapon is a red hot stone which is shot from their eyes. This is what we see as lightning. [3] Thus it is said that their glance can penetrate any object. [4]

Some Thunders are more reckless in their casting of lightning, and from time to time they strike a human being. There is a definite procedure that must be followed when this happens.

When anyone is struck by lightning, the other people would rush upon him just as they rush upon an enemy, give war-whoops, etc. They believe that this will induce the man to get up They would get out their warbundles, put on paint, etc. The reason they get up is because they are struck by the same beings that made the warbundles and thus if the other people make them regular offerings, all will be well. [5]

When anything is struck by lightning, it is said that the Thunders "eat" it, by which is understood that they take its essence up into themselves. Thus the yellow grass that remains after a lightning strike is said to have been "eaten" by the Thunderbirds. [6] Thus the Thunders are sometimes portrayed as man-eaters. [7] As Menaige tells us, the reckless use of lightning was characteristic of the Thunders ab initio:

It is one of the old traditions that when the Thunder Birds or Winaxí first appeared, they lit fires (by lightning) somewhat indiscriminately, striking everything they came across, even to the Waktcéxi or Spirits of the Water and Under Earth, whom they killed and eat of . . . They say that whenever a hill is struck by lightning, as hills often are on account of their altitude above surrounding objects, it is because a Waktcéxi is concealed under it (that is in its water-springs) whom the Thunders thus kill and eat. [8]

This explains why the high ground is so often struck by lightning.

Once the Thunders used lighning to rescue ten brothers who had taken the form of quails to escape an evil spirit. This spirit had taken the form of a woman, who attacked them with an elkhorn club. Because she was struck dead by lightning after the birds had cried out to the Thunders, the quails ever since have sung "bobwhite, bobwhite," to announce the coming of the rain. [9]

http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.Lightning.html

Also, her mit eure geschenke! ;-)))

-Basey

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