as told by Mad Bear Anderson.
I will tell you his story - who he is and how he came to look like that. But he is gone on now, evolved beyond this. These Beings have graduated and gone to a higher world - and they are high, high, high, beyond us. Yet we keep the False Face in this form and we pay honor and respect to it. It reminds us of a lesson far ahead of us - a hard lesson that we have yet to learn.
I call him False face even though that wasn't his name at his time. That was never the name of him or his people but that is how we refer to it. False Face had studied and learned all the basic things in the universe. Then he had prepared and developed himself in all the medicine ways. It took centuries of hard work, but eventually he developed all the spiritual powers known on this Earth. He knew all the ways of the Creator.
One day False Face stood out in a large field looking at the skies and at the mountains in the distance...
... I am so sorry, but this post has been moved to my new website, Feathers and Bones, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com, and can be found in its entirety here: The Story of False Face
Although Mad Bear was indeed entrusted to keep a medicine mask, simply because a book was written about him from a third party does not entitle such information to be bandied about. These mask and other such carvings are sacred, they are the living embodiment of spirits that cannot be understood by general people, and more importantly they are not for general ignorant discussion on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteHere is what the Confederacy has to say, regarding mask carvings:
http://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/maskpolicy.htm
Please honor both Mad Bear and the masks by not mentioning them to people outside of the medicine societies who use them daily. There is a sacred and also secret society as well among the Indian people.
Nya:Weh Sge:No!