Edgar Rodriguez(Kunuku Ceiba)'s Posts - Indigenous Caribbean Network2024-03-29T12:04:35ZEdgar Rodriguez(Kunuku Ceiba)http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/profile/edgarrodriguezhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2787618233?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=27z3p7t4b6qt9&xn_auth=noTaino Serenity Prayertag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2021-08-18:2030313:BlogPost:2326002021-08-18T17:05:06.000ZEdgar Rodriguez(Kunuku Ceiba)http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/profile/edgarrodriguez
<p>when I spoke this prayer to one of my Elders she said " it sounds like the Taino Serenity prayer" and so it was named .</p>
<p>T<strong>aino Serenity Prayer (morning prayer )</strong></p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>Good</strong> to come to me ,<br></br>so that I may be supported by my own goodness.</p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>True</strong> to come to me ,<br></br>so that I may Feel my truth and have the courage to live it.</p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>Wise</strong> to come…</p>
<p>when I spoke this prayer to one of my Elders she said " it sounds like the Taino Serenity prayer" and so it was named .</p>
<p>T<strong>aino Serenity Prayer (morning prayer )</strong></p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>Good</strong> to come to me ,<br/>so that I may be supported by my own goodness.</p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>True</strong> to come to me ,<br/>so that I may Feel my truth and have the courage to live it.</p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>Wise</strong> to come to me ,<br/>so that I may gain wisdom from those who have gone before me.</p>
<p>I ask that all that is <strong>Beautiful</strong> to come to me ,<br/>so I have the power to create beauty in the world.</p>
<p>I ask that these gifts ignite and inspire me <br/>so that they bring out the best in me on this day.</p>
<p>HAN HAN KATU</p>The paradox of Impromptu ceremonies Or Creating rituals on the flytag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2013-06-20:2030313:BlogPost:979662013-06-20T16:33:30.000ZEdgar Rodriguez(Kunuku Ceiba)http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/profile/edgarrodriguez
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><b>The paradox of Impromptu ceremonies</b></font></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><b>Or Creating rituals on the fly</b></font></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><font size="3">Can there be an impromptu Ceremony? Hold up isn't a ceremony a traditional observance and the handing down of statements, beliefs, customs, from generation to generation a sacred…</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="4"><b>The paradox of Impromptu ceremonies</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="4"><b>Or Creating rituals on the fly</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Can there be an impromptu Ceremony? Hold up isn't a ceremony a traditional observance and the handing down of statements, beliefs, customs, from generation to generation a sacred manner.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Plainly something that has been done before, so we do not have to improvise. And yet in this instant message world sometimes we are called to do just that. I am 100% sure that each Beike has been called upon short notice to facilitate something approximating a ceremony of the fly.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">This challenge takes somewhat different forms according to the nature of the occasion, which usually falls under one of the following two categories:</font></p>
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<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">People</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">blessings; anniversaries, baptisms, birthdays,and the like</span></font></p>
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<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">non-human entities; spaces large or small, articles</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of clothing,</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">chains rings, pets</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Pets!</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Try s</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">m</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">udging a piss-off German Shepard who thinks your trying to burn him! Guacar!!!!</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here are</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">somethings I learned along the way.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">First thing is to create a sacred space. Second thing, f</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ind four directions, in any</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">earth-based tradition especially a shamanic tradition they do this to recreate the cosmos, and thats what setting the four directions do. That's what a medicine wheel,</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">maypole,</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">mandala, a labyrinth, and the center is the world tree or axis</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">mu</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">n</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">di.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>Water</b></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">= in a glass or bowl</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>Fire</b></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">= candle, incense of some kind.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>Wind</b></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">=</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">feathers</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, house hold Cinnamon burns nicely and is an air element herb.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><font size="3">Earth</font></b><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">= a stone,</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">corn, oats, a plant,</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a Cemi if one ha</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">one , a clay pot will do or dirt , even a coin.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><font size="3"><u>T</u></font><font size="3"><u>hings to say</u></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sometimes we are lost for words, but I have Little tip</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">that has help.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please take not offense in my use of the Bible but everybody usually has one.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the Bible in the book of Proverbs (wisdom) there are 31 chapters, each chapter has at least 24 verses most have more than 31.</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Y</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ou can use the date or the date and time to find some guidance on what to say to take the essence not the verse!!!</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lets</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">look at</span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">today is 6/20 so 6</span></font><sup><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></font></sup> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">chapter verse 20</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The verse say “</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My son, keep your</span></font> <font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">father's commands</span></u></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and do not forsake your</span></font> <font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">mother teaching</span></u></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lets make this easy, lets have a birthday blessing for a girl say 1</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4:</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">F</span></u></font><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">ather's commands</span></u></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></font> <font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">mother teaching</span></u></font> <font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span></span></font> <b><font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">essence mind your parents.</span></i></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I would say something like,</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">today we celebrate the birthday of A### she is now 14 and 14 is not an easy time for anyone, because when you're 14 sometimes you want to be</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">treated</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">like your a grow-up and sometimes you want to be treated like a kid, and for your Parents there</span></span></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'s</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">no way to tell when your feeling which.</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thats why parents are so annoying. And we have all felt this way when we where 14. But with the loving care of our parents, you continue to grow, grow in beauty and in wisdom.</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Let take a look at some of the care we quietly received</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">w</span></span></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">hen we babies.</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">O</span></span></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ur mother care for us</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">Teachings</span></u></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">us to love, a sense of right and wrong ,maybe Dad or Mom read to us or told us stories all these things show us that we</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">are loved and this special blessing today is part of that love.</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do your ritual part, be it smudge,water blessing,oils,have parents say a few words have the girl say</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">few words, make sure you close sending back any energies you called before you party.</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Notice I did not go into a the</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">mind your parents</span></span></i></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">thing,after all it is there birthday let them have there day without rubbing the</span></span></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">m</span></span></span></font> <font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the wrong way!</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Han Han Katu</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Beike Kunuk Ceiba</span></span></span></font></p>taino ritual worksheettag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2013-06-09:2030313:BlogPost:975462013-06-09T13:00:00.000ZEdgar Rodriguez(Kunuku Ceiba)http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/profile/edgarrodriguez
<p>This is a form I use with my Beikes-in training ( IKENS) ,helping to understand what and why</p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4" style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>Taino Ritual Worksheet</b></font></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ype of</span> <span style="font-style: normal;">R</span><span style="font-style: normal;">itual:…</span></b></font></p>
<p>This is a form I use with my Beikes-in training ( IKENS) ,helping to understand what and why</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><b>Taino Ritual Worksheet</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ype of</span> <span style="font-style: normal;">R</span><span style="font-style: normal;">itual:</span></b> <font size="2"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">circle one</span></i></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Seasonal ….. Rites of passage ….. Celebration ….. Consultation ….. Visualization …..</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Is it a shark dance,a fullmoon,a solstice ,what is it</em></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Type Details: ______________________________________________________________________</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>Location:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">_______________________________________________________________________</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Purpose of Ritual: <span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2"><em>is it spring, a marriage what ?</em></span><br/></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Special Ritual Items : <span style="color: #ff0000;" class="font-size-2"><em>do we need a shark ,a coa what ?</em></span><br/></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>Preparations/Alter Setups : </b> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="font-size-2"><em>indoors ,outdoors? how many</em></span><em> </em> <span class="font-size-1"><em><font size="3"><span class="font-size-2">participants ( <font size="3"><font size="3"><span class="font-size-2">best guess</span></font></font></span></font></em></span> <em><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3"><font size="3">)</font></font></font></font></em></span><b><br/></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Welcoming: _________________________Smudging:_________________________________</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><i>Answer How and Why</i></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>1</b> Opening/greeting :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>2</b> Calling /Invoke :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>3</b> Raising Manna :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>4</b> Primary Ritual Act :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>5</b> Offering / Release :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>6</b> Rebound of Manna :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>7</b> Gratitudes :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>8</b> Dismissals of Deities :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>9</b> Grounding the Energy :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>10</b> Close Ritual Space :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>11</b> Release group or Social time :</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>12</b> Take down/Cleanup:</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>What was impressionable?</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>What</b> <b>was impressionable</b> <b>to participants</b> <b>?</b> <i>Ask them!</i></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" align="left"><font size="3">Improvements:</font></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"> if anyone wants one you can send me an email so I can send you a PDF</span></p>
<p> this go's with my article on <strong><em>good ceremonial structure</em></strong></p>