“When I was a boy I heard the old people tell about a great wicasa wakan  (a spiritual man) who did wonderful things; and his name was Wooden Cup. He had a vision of the Great Mysterious One, and that is how he got his power. He could make fire with his fingers, just by touching the wood; and he could see far off into the days that were going to be when babies that were not yet born would be walking with their canes.

He saw it and he said it.

A strange people would come from the sunrise, and there would be more of them than bison. The bison would turn to white bones on the prairie. The mother earth would be bound with bands of iron. The sacred hoop of our people would be broken by the evil power of the strangers, and in time we would live in little square gray houses, and in those houses we would starve.”

He said it, and we have seen it.” – The wisdom of Eagle Elk 1851- 1945

Creating Fire

Elva Thompson – If you are a gassed avid reader of my articles you will already be up to speed with what I’m going to talk about and, the understandings that go with it.

We’ll start with Wooden Cup – He could make fire just by touching the wood with his fingers.

The intellectual hive mind cannot grasp the understanding that a fire can be started with a finger. They have no intuitive awareness and think shamanism and energy modulation is superstitious BS or an act of quackery.

So how did Wooden Cup start a fire with his fingers? Continue reading →