March 11, 2008

Please forgive us, Earth

Indigenous leaders meet to cleanse Earth

Pre-dawn ceremony starts conference near Mayan pyramidsIndians from Mexico, the United States and Canada gathered before dawn Monday to light incense, pray and sing in the shadow of ancient Mayan pyramids, asking the contaminated earth for forgiveness.

More than 200 leaders from 71 American Indian nations were joining in this jungle town to offer indigenous wisdom about ways to save the polluted planet.

"Our Mother Earth is being polluted at an alarming rate, and our elders say that she is dying," said Raymond Sensmeier, a Tlingit leader from Yakutat, Alaska. "The way the weather is around the world ... a cleansing is needed."

The pre-dawn ceremony that launched the conference included fire, copal incense, chants in Lacandon Maya and blasts from a conch shell to the four cardinal points.Comment:  Well, did the cleansing work? I haven't noticed any changes yet.

For more on the subject, see Ecological Indian Talk.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:41 AM

    Well, do prayers to the Christian/Catholic god work to the point of visible results? I've neever seen any.

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  2. dmarks8:03 PM

    These "null" results are probably better than those of the Kyoto accords, which actually had China increasing greenhouse gas pollution.

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