Hello All
Happy Friday to you!
I wish to honor our buffaloes and all they represent. Native Americans are wise enough to know that Buffalo ‘medicine’, its meanings and their Gifts to us from long ago continue today. If the buffalo had not roamed this continent the native tribes would not have survived and if they hadn’t survived, the first European settlers would not have made it either. The buffaloes brought much of the food, sustenance, tools and clothing our ancestors on this continent needed to survive. The buffalo stood for gratitude to all the abundance life has to offer us, if we would but honor our planet, each other and ourselves. Spirit said a little Godsign on the message of buffaloes in general, and the Sacred White Buffalo, might help right now.
In many Native American cultures the White bison symbolize peace and prayer. The legend of the White Buffalo in Sioux mythology has a female character of supernatural origin referred to as the White Buffalo Calf Woman. According to legend, two men were sent out by their starving and demoralized villages to look for buffalo herds near the Sacred Hills, also know as the Black Hills, in western South Dakota.
All animals are sacred, but in many native American traditions, like the Lakota and the Sioux, White Buffalo is the most sacred. The buffalo represented not only survival for many of the native tribes but the Buffalo Medicine represented a connection to the Divine, Sacred Abundance with all humans beings and Life. It represented connection and honor to Prayer in life.
The legends tell of the White Buffalo Calf Woman bringing the sacred peace pipe to the people and teaching them to pray. The bowl of the peace pipe was the receptacle that held tobacco. Tobacco was considered an herb that contained both male and female medicine to the Lakota. The stem of the pipe represented the male entering the female and seeding life, and in that connection, the Divine Energy of the Great Spirit was made. Every family was asked to enter into the pipe ceremony and share its medicine as prayer and praise to the heavens. The smoke created by the pipe was considered visual prayer and was very sacred and cleansing.
At this time in world history, buffalo may follow you around in thanks because of your prayers for world peace and blessings of abundance to all!
You may be looking for answered prayers in your own life. Watch for the buffalo images, symbols, words around you being Used as Godsign to let you know those prayers are being answered. Perhaps you are not seeing all the Gifts and abundance around you and the buffalo wants to remind you of all the Blessings in your life!
Buffalo shows Up to let you know that the Divine will feed you, carry you, clothe you, warm you and if that is not enough, will then joyfully listen to each of your prayers for peace and prosperity in your life and especially our world. Take a puff on Spirit’s Peace Pipe, climb on and ride the buffalo with prayers of gratitude and thanks as you enjoy some fun and abundance in all aspects of your life.
Buffalo Gals
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
As I was walking down the street,
Down the street, down the street,
A pretty little gal I chanced to meet,
Oh, she was fair to see.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
I stopped her and we had a talk,
Had a talk, had a talk,
Her feet took up the whole sidewalk
And left no room for me.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
I asked her if she’d have a dance,
Have a dance, have a dance,
I thought that I might have a chance
To shake a foot with her.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin’,
And her heel kept a-knockin’,
and her toes kept a-rockin’
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin’
And we danced by the light of the moon.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo Gals, won’t you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
“Buffalo Gals” is a traditional American song, written and published as “Lubly Fan” in 1844. The song was widely popular throughout the United States. Because of its popularity, minstrels altered the lyrics to suit the local audience, so it might be performed as “New York Gals” in New York City or “Boston Gals” in Boston. The best-known version is named after Buffalo, New York.