07/05/2025
“The Great Mystery always works in circles, and all things tend to be round... You may have noticed that everything the Indians does is in a circle. The sky is spherical, and I have heard that the Earth is round like a ball, and that the stars are, too. When his greatest rage is unleashed, the wind swirls in circles. Birds make their nests in circular shapes, for their religion is the same as ours... Even the seasons, in their transformation, describe a great circle and always return to their starting point. A man’s life is a circle—from childhood to childhood again—and the same is true for all things connected to the movement of this power.”
— Alce Negro, shaman of the Oglala Lakota Sioux
