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Hi, I need help with essay on Journal: The Sacred Pipe. Paper must be at least 1750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

With the help of prayers, fasting, and deep understanding of his community’s people culture and heritage, he became a very famous wise man. He was able to realize visions and acquire special powers, which were good for the nation. Because of this, the book enables many people understand the truth behind the Indian traditions. Today, many Christians receive much talk about peace, yet this is not into many considerations and only remains to be just talk. However, through this book “sacred pipe” peace should come to those Christian who understand and have an understanding from their hearts. This depiction is in the preface of the book, “There is much talk of peace among Christians, yet this is just talk. Perhaps it may be, and this is my prayer, through the sacred pipe, and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe is, peace may come to those people who can understand… (page, xx)” Through all this, people will understand that they have only one true God whom they should worship and pray continually. Reading this book enables people to understand the truth of the Indian traditions and help in bringing peace on earth. This chapter narrates a story of two hunters whom on their way met with a mysterious woman carrying a bundle on her back. This woman was so good looking that one of the Lakota hunter had bad intentions and told his friend who warned him that he should not have such poor thoughts since this woman was a wakan woman. The mysterious woman was now close to them and told the poor man to come closer. As he approached the woman, they were both covered by a cloud. soon the cloud was off, what the other man saw were only the mysterious woman and the remains of the man with evil intentions on her feet, and severe snakes eating the bones. Any man who considers senses and world thing are ignorant snakes consumes him, and this represents his passion. The mysterious woman takes the sacred pipe to the chief of the community and explains to him explained all it significances. During her departure, she says. “Behold this pipe, Always remember how sacred it is, and treat it as such, for it will take you to the end. Remember, in me, there are four ages… (Page 7)” These ages are similar to Indian tradition myth with which true spirituality lasts until the cycle ends with a catastrophe, after which there is the fulfillment of primitive spirituality, and the cycle starts once again. Some of concepts, which govern the wisdom of Indian people, are such as “The Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and she is sacred… (Page 4)” This means that Indian people consider earth in two aspects, Grandmother, and mother. Earth is mother meaning that it is the producer of all the growing things on the earth and a grandmother meaning the grounds and substance for all growing things. The sacred pipe is a combination of wood, stones, and feathers meaning that it bounds all the earth creatures. Through the rite of keeping of the soul, the Indians receive purification from the souls of the late and this increases love for one another. The government illegalized and realized this rite in 1890 and that all souls, kept by the Sioux.