ORENDA

extraordinary invisible power believed by the Iroquois Indians

to pervade in varying degrees all animate and inanimate natural objects

as a transmissible spiritual energy capable of being exerted according to the will of its possessor

A Research Compendium

SPIRIT AND HUMAN / CONJOINED IN LIGHT

Bridging the Gap between the Spiritual and the Physical Realms.

• Spirit in Environment -

The Creator Gathered all of Creation and Said:

Creator: “I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality”

Eagle: “Give it to me, I will take it to the moon.”

Creator: “No, one day they will go there and find it.”

Salmon: “I will bury it in the bottom of the ocean.”

Creator: “No, they will go there too.”

Buffalo: “I will bury it in the Great Plains.”

Creator: “They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there.”

Grandmother lives in the breast of the Mother Earth and has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes.

Grandmother: “Put it inside them.”

Creator: “It is done.”

Creation Story from the Hopi Nation (Sources Differ)