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      • MISS T
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​CIRCLE OF THE SUN

CIRCLE OF THE SUN

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In the mid seventies, I personally experienced a sun dance on the Cree Reservation in Hobbema, Alberta, under the spiritual guidance of my then father-in-law Joe Cattleman, who organized and led many sun dance ceremonies of the Cree Nation.

This video below, by the National Filmboard of Canada, speaks about such a ceremony on the Blackfoot Reservation in Alberta. However, the footage is from rodeos, pow wows and drum circles. The actual Sundance ceremony and details thereof are sacred and kept secret!

for additional information, see Sun Dance in Canada
also check this article about the Sun Dance

Important -  see my explanation below: 
ABOUT THE SACRED

Circle of the Sun, Colin Low, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis

This short documentary by Colin Low is an invitation to a gathering of the Blood Indians of Alberta - as the Sun Dance is captured on film for the first time. The film shows how the theme of the circle reflects the bands' connection to wildlife and also addresses the predicament of the young generation, those who have relinquished their ties with their own culture but have not yet found a firm place in a changing world.

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From the playlist : The Aboriginal Voice: the National Film Board and Aboriginal Filmmaking through the Years

Circle of the Sun marks the first time the Sun Dance ceremony of the Blood Indians of southern Alberta is documented on film. Directed by Colin Low, it begins with a ‘Voice of God’ narration, typical for films of that period. But then, the featured character of the film, Pete Standing Alone, takes over telling the story… and perhaps for the first time, the Aboriginal voice is heard, telling its own story.
— Gil Cardinal

From the playlist : Colin Low: Recollections from a Distinguished Career

My father was the foreman of the Cochrane Church Ranch, and he knew many Blood Indians since childhood. He introduced me to Jim Whitebull in 1953, the year that we made Corral. We visited the Sun Dance that year, and I met Shot Both Sides at the Sun Dance camp. In 1956 and 1957 we filmed the Sun Dance footage, which became Circle of the Sun, and was completed in 1959. It was a long-term project. Jim Whitebull was very helpful in all respects. He was patient and thoughtful.

I was less interested in the rituals of the Sun Dance and fully aware of why they were out of bounds. I needed to find a young person that was able to express the ethos of the culture without the detail. Almost accidentally I found this in one person, Pete Standing Alone. We needed to include some of the modern details of the Blood Indians. I chose an oil well exploration on the reserve, not aware that oil would become part of the future economy and eventually a long-term potential problem as it is today. In making the film I met many people on the Blood reservation. I found them very supportive. Pete literally became part of the crew.

When we finished cutting the film in 1959, I asked a writer director who was a senior filmmaker, Stanley Jackson, to write the narration. He felt he could not do it without talking to the participants. I had recorded an off-the-cuff conversation with Pete and so I played it back to Stanley. Stanley was intrigued so we had Pete come to Montreal for ten days. After working on the movieola and in the cutting room, Stanley and Pete went into the studio, and after a couple of tries, Pete read the commentary that he had almost memorized. It was a splendid, natural delivery and we were delighted with it. Pete's participation in the film was extensive. In this film I learned the importance of the happy participation of the subjects in a documentary and I tried to expand that experience in my career in films that I directed or produced or in which I was consultant.

— Colin Low

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​ABOUT THE SACRED

A quote from a good friend from the Native Community, in a recent exchange of letters about this subject:
​

A word of advice, don't exploit that fact,
​keep your knowledge and anything else you may have gained or experienced to yourself,
​ that is as it should be.
Following that exchange, I felt compelled to add this:
ABOUT THE SACRED
digital adaption of my avatar, called 'Silenus' I had been using for years on social sites such as facebook.
There are things and events that are so sacred, one cannot talk about it.
I am sometimes asked about this, and when I say I cannot talk about it, then people think therefore it cannot be real.
But if I would be talking about it, then it would not be sacred.
Beware of those who talk too much.
They are not 'real'.
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I think this should be required reading:
Lakota Declare War Against "Shamans" & "Plastics"
At the Lakota Summit V, an international gathering of US and Canadian Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, about 500 representatives from 40 different tribes and bands of the Lakota unanimously passed a “Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality.” The following declaration was unanimously passed on June 10, 1993.
Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality ......................... read MORE
Read what it is all about in this article about CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
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  • HOME
    • OTTO RAPP - ART OF THE MYSTIC
    • INTRODUCTION >
      • ABOUT MY WORK
    • PRINTS AND MERCHANDISE >
      • DESIGNS BY OTTO RAPP >
        • DETERIORATION OF MIND COLLECTION
        • PHONE CASES
        • SCATEBOARDS
        • SHOES
        • TIES
        • AOW FASHION
        • PAOM FASHION
        • DESIGN BY HUMANS
        • MY WEAR STORE
        • PIXELS SHOP
        • RAGE ON
        • SOCIETY 6
        • THREADLESS
        • VIDA FASHION
      • ART OF THE MYSTIC PRINT STORE >
        • FAA PIXELS PRINT SHOP
        • LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
      • DEVIANT ART
      • ZAZZLE >
        • RIJKSMUSEUM >
          • ALBRECHT DÜRER
          • JAN DAVIDSZ DE HEEM
    • ESSAY - THE ART OF THE MYSTIC
    • BOGOMIL'S UNIVERSE
    • TALES FROM THE CRYPT BY OTTO RAPP
    • CURRICULUM VITAE >
      • CV Documents
      • EXHIBITIONS
    • CONTACT
    • CIRCLE OF THE SUN
    • PHOTOALBUMS
    • ARTWORK SLIDE SHOW >
      • Flickr Slide Show embed
  • ARTWORK
    • PAINTINGS >
      • ABANDONED BY HIS MOTHER
      • ADAM IN PAIN
      • ALL TIED UP IN KNOTS
      • BOGOMIL ALIEN LANDSCAPE
      • BOGOMIL LANDSCAPE
      • BOGOMIL'S AVATAR
      • BOGOMIL'S CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
      • BOGOMIL'S COURT
      • BOGOMILS JOURNEY
      • BOGOMILS LANDING
      • BOGOMILS MONASTIC RETREAT
      • BOGOMIL SUNRISE 2
      • DETERIORATION OF MIND OVER MATTER
      • DORILUS DEUS
      • ERNSTHAFTES SPIEL IM INNEREN ERDTEIL
      • FLY-OVER WITH BOGOMIL'S SHUTTLE
      • FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING
      • FOMORII INTERIOR II
      • GREY DAY AT THE FACTORY
      • HOUR OF THE COCK
      • ISABELLE DE VOUTHON
      • LADY Z - THE GOLDEN ANGEL
      • MAGNA MATER
      • MONUMENT TO THE UNBORN WAR HERO
      • NUBIAN DREAM
      • OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT
      • PABLOS LAST CONCERT
      • PARTHENOGENESIS II
      • PORTRAIT OF YOUNG BOGOMIL
      • QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE STUDIO
      • RAVEN
      • REVELATION 20
      • SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE
      • THE SURROGATE MOTHER OF WISDOM
      • THE VISITOR
      • YGGDRASIL
    • DRAWINGS >
      • DRAWING DETAILS
      • DRAWINGS SLIDE SHOW
      • A MAD SUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
      • ALPHA AND OMEGA - THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BOGOMILS UNIVERSE
      • ANTIPODES
      • AXIS MUNDI
      • BACKLANE SERENADE
      • BOGOMIL'S AVATAR REVISITED
      • BOGOMIL'S DUCKHUNTING MASK
      • CHRISTAN FANTASY PORTRAIT
      • CTHULHU MONUMENTS
      • EMRAKUL
      • EROS THANATOS
      • EROS THANATOS II
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR
      • EYE OF THE DARK STAR - JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORMHOLE
      • FAMILY REUNION
      • FOMORII GENERAL
      • FOMORII KING AND HIS QUEEN
      • FOMORII STORMTROOPER
      • JABBERWOCKY
      • KRIX KRAX SPIRIT GUIDE
      • MEMENTO MORI
      • MISS T
      • MUMMENSCHANZ
      • OUROBOROS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
      • OUTSKIRTS OF NECROPOLIS
      • PORTAL TO BOGOMILS UNIVERSE IV
      • SELFPROPELLED BEASTIE SEEDING MACHINE
      • SHEPHERD OF THE SPHINX
      • SPIRAL RAPTURE II
      • THE BEAST OF BABYLON
      • THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
      • THE COVID DOCTOR HAS LANDET
      • THE EYE OF THE FOMORII
      • THE FERNAL ALIEN PLANT
      • THE WIZARD OF EARTH SEA
      • TRIPPING THROUGH BOGOMILS MIND
      • UNTITLED A4 2018-08-01
      • UNTITLED P 1010381
      • YMIR AT REST
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE I
      • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III >
        • VINDOBONA ALTARPIECE III details on Issuu
      • WALDRAPP'S TOMB
      • WILLIAM'S WINTER - A TALE FROM THE PRAIRIE
    • DIGITAL ART >
      • BOGOMIL VARIATIONS
      • DEEP DREAM
      • DIGITAL ART on Flickr
      • NIGHTCAFE
      • DREAMWORLD
      • MYSTIC UFO
    • BLOG >
      • THE MYSTICS BLOGGER BLOG
      • HIVE BLOG
      • TWITTER
    • WERKVERZEICHNIS
    • FLICKR SLIDE SHOWS
    • OTTO RAPP PHOTOGRAPHY
  • VIDEOS
  • EXHIBITIONS
  • GALLERIES
    • VISIONARY ART GALLERY >
      • VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION
      • OTTO RAPP
    • Gallery atKinsky
    • ORIGINAL ART WORK - INFORMATION
  • READING CORNER
    • A LETTER TO NATALIE
    • APOCALYPSE DELAYED
    • ARE YOU LOST?
    • Art of the Mystic Drawings and Words
    • AS THE SPIRITS MOVE ME
    • BARE-FACED MESSIAH
    • CIRCLE OF THE SUN - ABOUT THE SACRED
    • CODEX SERAPHINIANUS
    • CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES
    • ENCOUNTER ON THE S-BAHN
    • GARDEN OF FERNAL DELIGHTS - Otto’s Dream
    • GOING BANANAS AT ART BASEL MIAMI
    • JACK OF SHADOWS
    • ONE WINGED ANGEL
    • OTTO RAPP - INTERVIEW ON ILLUSTRATION TOOLBOX
    • PETER SCHLEMIEHL
    • THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF FANTASTIC REALISM
  • LINKS
    • ABOUT COPYRIGHT
    • ART MARKET NEWS
    • MY RIJKSSTUDIO COLLECTIONS
    • NEWS MAGAZINE
    • OTTO RAPP on HIVE
    • SANDBOX
    • SAY NO TO FREE ART
    • WORLD CLOCK
  • CALENDAR
  • CORONA VIRUS INFO
    • CORONA VIRUS RESOURCES
    • CORONA VIRUS BLOG
    • MASKS vs RESPIRATORS Information
    • Coronavirus - Häufig gestellte Fragen
    • FAQ: FFP2-MASKEN, MNS und ABSTANDSPFLICHT
    • TKP BLOG - SCIENCE + POLITIK ÖSTERREICH
  • EASY ZOOM