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Minna EarthKeeper

Re: Totem Loss

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Feb 7 06 8:28 PM

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JimmyWhiteBear, you dear man. Thank you for your idea about releasing a prayer with the tobacco. I've always got that tobacco.

And if i can't let go of the wheel to tear out the tobacco, then i can roll down the window and release the smoke in a prayer.

Thank you for understanding.

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They choose me to help them!... Not my choice but, I have been selected and I have to respect that!

They know you can help them release back to Spirit with respect. :heart

Love, minna :val

Sweet Spirit, 'Let the beauty we love be what we do' ~ Rumi

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2Crow Woman

Re: Totem Loss

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Feb 7 06 8:35 PM

Jimmy

My family haven't had many animals commit suicide, but we have often had animals choose to die with us. By that I mean we've regularly had wild animals come to us when they were dying. Oh, also had ones wanting help, but there's a big difference. I never thought about this before.

Like in Africa there were several birds who came right into the house - found a safe warm spot.. and just died, calm and peaceful.

Now here In Scotland we had a big old rabbit do the same thing last year. He was very sick, poor thing.

I've never thought about why they come to us before now. And I must admit I've never had a ritual to offer them beyond a prayer and a burial in the back yard.

Crow Woman

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jimmywhtbear

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Feb 8 06 12:46 AM

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What is ritual? A way to honor! As Simple as a prayer and burial!

I have often thought at wakes and funerals that the wake and funeral are for the people left behind, not for the one that just crossed. Once the spirit has left the body, all that remains is the shell that once held the spirit, A Husk! if you like!

I sometimes may stop and move something of the road if it has been hit but to stop sometimes isn't a good idea because traffic might get you. Lots of crazy people out there today! Remembering that what is left is just the body, a quick prayer and a release of some tobacco to the wind carrys the spirit, helps that spirit along. An Honoring of the spirit that lost its home in this earth walk and now will dwell in the spirit world until it is time to come back to the physical world or mundane!

Keep it simple! Thats the best honoring!

Bear

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Cinnamon Moon 1

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Feb 8 06 1:50 AM

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I agree with you Bear, 100%! The honoring is what matters, and the ceremonies after a person or creature Drop their Robe is as much for those left behind. They grieve their loss then and it becomes very personal. In the ceremony we honor and remember the loved one's contributions...the good memories come forward and the love shines through. Simple or complex, it's the prayer blessing their way that matters and if you're in a pinch, a cigarette works just as well to offer tobacco. I carry them in my walking pouch along with other herbs for such times, be it to bless the journey of another or simply offer a token when I feel called to do so whatever the purpose. I'm a firm believer that simple is better, and I *KNOW* those who pass on are well-received, I've been shown the Mother's waiting arms. *S* :gst

~To Be A Feather In Spirit's Wing~

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Lune

The mother's waiting arms

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Feb 8 06 6:04 AM

*grins*
I know them too. I saw them, and had the choice to step into them at that point, or later.

When I was training in Shamanism, my medicine teacher and I found a dead Kangaroo on the side of the road. My teacher stopped the car and she helped me check to make sure the kangaroo's spirit had passed over properly. It had. But she had had a little joey in her pouch, also dead. It's little spirit hadn't, so she taught me how to help it cross over properly.

I have used that lesson in many ways (including with any animals killed on the roads) since then. And the mother kangaroo, we honored her spirit, but she needed no help. It was that the little joey's spirit hadn't passed on that was the eye-opener for me.

I have been lucky. The only thing I know for sure I have killed was a bandicoot. It was terrible, and there was nothing I could do to save it that wouldn't endanger all four of us in the car, and anyone who might have been coming round the curve on the opposite side of the road (Night, steep incline, sharp curve)

I just pray that I am never in a situation like that again. It was really horrible. If I am, I hope I might remember bear's comment about them being sick and committing suicide.

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