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I am growing my hair out as well despite all the gray that is quickly showing up at the temples and in my beard.
Concerning the biblical story of Sampson and his hair, I seem to recall a passage in the bible that states something along the lines that long hair is an abomination to the lord. I leave it to the reader to ascertain the reason that this is part of scripture.
Obviously the abomination comment is added so that the book can be acceptable to the bible they put together from available texts because the governments needed to bring the people together under their control in some way by religion by omitting supposed objectional books instead of keeping every possible book for the finished bible.
where? I've never seen that in the Bible and I've read it many times. Jesus had long hair.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but that with the hair just isn't true. American Indians were many nations and not just what the government tells you. Some with long hair. Some with short hair. Some were hunters and some agriculture type farmers. When someone who is from a tribe that wore their hair long was made to cut it, then boot camped long enough, that is what made the spirit weak. One can mold the spirit but if the spirit is broken then the person is broken. Cutting the hair merely weakened the spirit along with all the other indoctrination measures. Here is another tip while we're here. American Indians mostly smoked tobacco, not pot, though some tribes did do some "trips". Some believed in an all powerful God and some believed in many gods.
As for Sampson, it wasn't that his hair contained strength, it was that he was seduced to worldly pleasures and broke something that God said not to do. His hair was a covenant, and he broke it. No mystery there. Even the Gnostic Judaism beliefs that you gave a link to would agree to that I think.
Most of what is out there today is hogwash, and I'm including traditional dogma with that. Being part Cherokee I kind of take it personally when I see non American Indians tell us what we are suppose to be and not suppose to be, let alone believe. Smart people twist things so that many will snare. Be smarter. So the next thing you read telling you some "Indian fact", please, ask a real Indian and not what the system wants you to believe, and one from that tribe. It isn't our hair, color, or whatever that makes us good at harmonizing with nature, it's reverence for God's gift of grandmother earth and the creatures that does. Tracking is simply paying attention to usual things in usual places. Nothing more. Nothing less. It's taught.
Peace
How could I possibly know that? I certainly wasn't there and then. Delilah (דלילה – Dlila, Standard Hebrew meaning "[She who] weakened... must have been quite a sport, assuming she -and Samson- were real people and not mere metaphorical entities; in any case eleven hundred pieces of silver times the number of the Lords of the Philistines makes one wonder if her name's meaning refers to Samson or the Lords of the Philistines themselves.
I definitely agree with you in that "Natives" are far from being a single nation/tribe but as diverse a group as "Europeans". "Asians" or "Africans", though I must say that most "Native" tribes in the continent when referring to "Native Americans" will include those who lived and are living within the current boundaries of the United States along all those that settled anywhere between Alaska/Canada and Patagonia, after all modern boundaries are just that, MODERN divisions that didn't exist five hundred years ago. When it comes to hairstyle we do have clues in the paintings and sculptures left behind and in the still extant traditions of many tribes, indeed hairstyles ranged from Long hair to shaved / plucked heads / body hair, just because nor EVERY native / tribe used long hair does it mean there aren't long held traditions about its energetic properties not only in the American continent but in many other places as well, there are several links on this page leading to them.
If anyone reading this knows about other places/ times where this belief was held please feel free to contribute appropriate links.
However having lived many years among Native tribes throughout the continent, and having apprenticed with and taught several medicine women in barely assimilated tribes I doubt any American tribe used cannabis before Columbus, though some high ranking members of several tribes hold this to be very true, insisting the plant was present in the continent before Columbus showed up, it definitely was readily adopted and is used extensively to this day .
Natives used tobacco alright, though not the now common "Virginia" variety /strain /subspecies used in commercial cigarrettes but far stronger ones such as Picietl, one of the four main divining plants in Mesoamerica along with Peyotl, Teonanacatl, and Ololiuhqui though not as a habit as chain-smokers of today but for ceremonial/spiritual/healing/dreaming tools as were and ARE Poyomatli, Ayahuasca, Yahutli, Tzi tzi, Cempasuchitl, and Ska Pastora
Peace / Aylobaha Gafuleya / Tlamatcanemiliztli / Paz
Maria, I was told by an old friend of mine who was part Navajo that the shamans believed that the smoke was used to carry their prayers to the spirits...could you clarify on this please?
I am not familiar with Navajo lore but "smoke used to carry prayers" is a common theme linked to the use of incense (1) and the famous Calumet Pipe.
On the other hand Totonacs and Tepehuas in the central Mexican State of Veracruz use Tobacco Cigar or cigarette smoke as protection to scare away evil spirits
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