"...An old Inuit woman on Little Diomede Island explained to a Danish anthropologist that powerful spirits - like the spirit of the whale - must be summoned by 'fresh words.'... 'Worn-out songs' should never be used when you are trying to call on important spirits, she explained."
Monday, 11 July 2005
notes
from Dreamways of the Iroquois by Robert Moss
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