I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
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And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.Black Elk
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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I was painted red all over with black lightning on my limbs. I wore a black mask, and across my forehead a single eagle feather hung.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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