Tribal Wisdom Stories
By Tribal Wisdom
Tribal Wisdom StoriesJun 21, 2021
Relationship with Nature | Hungarian Sundance
"Life is a miracle. It is worth seeing this miracle, recognizing it in ourselves and then our days are spent in the radiance of the Sun, in the light of God, on the path of Love."
Hungarian Wisdom Keeper Zoltán Sólyomfi-Nagy is a teacher, ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, poet, composer, old singer, drummer and rattle maker. His research on European and Hungarian traditions and his explorations and encounters with other Native Peoples brought him to revive, among others, Solstice Traditions such as the Hungarian Sundance.
The full talk is available here, which includes additional explanations about the local sweat lodge tradition (cserga), the writings which describe these ancient traditions and more on the philosophy of the solstice, not being a fight of light over darkness.
Zoltán is the founder of the TENGRI Community, which is a community of people who want to get to know, preserve, practice and pass on the original Hungarian spirit and worldview. http://tengri.hu/
#traditionalknowledge #sundance #solstice #shamanism #tengri #wisdomkeeper
#sabeduriaindigena #tribalwisdom #cserga #Hungary
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[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Roots of the Earth Netherlands - with permission]
Storytelling | Animations to telling Wancho Tales
The language and culture of the Wancho from the high mountains of Arunachal Pradesh is in danger. Tara Douglas is playing her part to help revive the stories from the elders by using animations. This interview tells us about the challenges and successes along her way and gives us an intimate Iook into this way of keeping Indigenous knowledge alive.
#adivasi #storytelling #wancho #taradouglas #india #traditionalknowledge #oraltradition #animation #tribalwisdom #arunachalpradesh
More info on the work of Tara Douglas:
The Adivasi Arts Trust website: www.adivasiartstrust.org
The Tales of the Tribes: https://www.madrascafeunlocked.co.uk/talesofthetribe
Indigenous Wisdom 3: The Wancho: Upholding the tribal traditions of Arunachal Pradesh https://youtu.be/lwWNdUp8KUU
UK Researcher gives Arunachal Pradesh's folk tales an animation push: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/uk-researcher-gives-arunachal-pradeshs-folk-tales-an-animation-push-903335.html
UK researcher helps Wancho tribe in 'disturbed' Arunachal district preserve culture: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/east-and-northeast/uk-researcher-helps-wancho-tribe-in-disturbed-arunachal-district-preserve-culture-929926.html
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[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Tara Douglas - with permission]
Midwifery | Life, Death and Blood
Traditional childbirth as it is practised in the high mountains of the Columbian Andes is intertwined with the pleasure of the woman and the powers of blood whereby the placenta brings us the knowledge with advice, (his)story, song and dance. We speak with Sara Barbosa and Ramiro Partera from the Muisca Peoples about Pleasure as the path to knowledge and how they both got into midwifery. Through the Mujeres Bachua foundation and the schools in Latin America (https://escuelahuytaca.co/2021/), they bring this ancient teaching to our modern lives and hope more midwives will follow this path.
Listen to the full interview here in English and Spanish, which elaborates on the violence around blood and the effects on Mother Nature, on the feminine connection to God with our lips, on intersexuality and addressing the connection to the first and last breath and the role of midwives during both these passages.
https://fundacionmujeresbachue.org/
https://www.facebook.com/mujeresbachue
https://escuelahuytaca.co/2021/
#traditionalknowledge #midwifery #traditionalchildbirth #midwife #doula #Muisca #PueblosIndiginos #sabeduriatradicional #sabeduriaindigena #tribalwisdom #mujeresbachue #colombia
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[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Mujeres Bachue - with permission]
Storytelling | Leadership and Decision Making
Stroytelling | We are all Story Beings
In today's episode, Japanese Storyteller and Nature Farmer Norihiro Terazawa, or Terra, is interviewed by Poornashri Kandade, about how he got into storytelling, originating from the Japanese traditional storytelling on TV, to exploring the power of words and sound. According to Terra, storytelling is a way to learn more about your life, through the archetypes of the story. It also connects and bonds people and "stories can be an archetype so that we can keep on learning and we keep on coming back to get the essence". He encourages people to open up to storytelling as a self-healing tool.
Terra currently lives in The Hague, The Netherlands and is active as a storytelling teacher and healer for individuals and businesses. (https://about.me/terra-norihiroterazawa)
#storytelling #japaneseculture #traditionalknowledge #tribalwisdom
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[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Norihiro Terazawa - with permission]
Natural Farming | Adivasi Farming & Nature
"Our role is not to change Nature, but to understand it". Saurabh Chaudhari is on a mission to help Nature restore itself. He dedicates his life to (re)introduce traditional, organic and natural farming practices with farmers in Gujurat, India. Saurabh belongs to the Bhil tribe, one of the largest Adivasi Peoples (also referred to as Indigenous or Tribal). Listening to his wise words, one would perhaps not expect a young man. Though English is not his native language, his statements are profound and even poetic. While most of his time is actually on the field, his organisation Nature Ops has a web page, which includes several ways of engagement and support.
#naturefarming #adivasi #bhiltribe #traditionalknowledge #tribalwisdom
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More stories like this are being posted on the Tribal-Wisdom.org portal.
[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Saurabh Chaudhary - with permission]
Natural Farming | Italy's Indigenous Sharecroppers
In Italy's Marche Region, the Aborigeni Mezzadri have practised regenerative farming for 1000s of years. Laura Melloni passionately tells us their story and how she discovered that the trendy principles of #CircularEconomy and #SystemsThinking were daily life for these sharecropping farmers. They lived a sober yet fulfilling life, taking only what was needed and keeping the surrounding nature and resources in complete balance, for it to thrive and maintain its vast biodiversity.
"La terra è potente, è vita, la terra è stata tutto per noi mezzadri” ("The earth is powerful, it is life, the earth has been everything for us sharecroppers")
#systemsthinking #regenerativeagriculture #aborigeni #malacultura #marche #traditionalknowledge #tribalwisdom
The full story, captions from the Sharecroppers themselves and many beautiful images on https://tribal-wisdom.org
More information on the story and photobook on https://aborigeni.malacultura.it/
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[percussion fragments by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit to Alessio Panichi - with permission]
Natural Farming | Olive Culture in Israel
#zerowaste #circulareconomy #oliveoil #oliveculture #golahheights
#traditionalknowledge #tribalwisdom
We listen to Avner during the Corona period in this shortened interview.
The full story will be available on tribal-wisdom.org shortly!
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[opening and closing percussion by Aleix Tobias - with permission]
[image credit: OleaEssence - with permission]
