America. One afternoon a mild October of 1886. On the land of long shadows and long knives were only boys and girls, dressed in light summer clothing, painted with the colors of eternal Pontormo. They live happy and glorious day, swim and dance, play and laugh and flirt all day, and when night comes they hide, such as children who are afraid of the dark, inside a circus tent of maternal Buffalo Bill.
Lakota are defined, and are vegetarians (But not by choice), rather fruttivori, in fact, just eat exotic fruits colored with the colors of Rosso Fiorentino, and drink pure spring water, in cups of white opaque glass. But, despite the diet fruttivora and absolute faith in a maximum Pavese (Hard Labor) Lakota no or almost no one, comes to old age, and why? Oibò, is easily explained, because they dig all around, hang out and look for the yellow metal, in black and oil pans, ugly and hairy monsters albino. They are called (the Lakota) Wasichu . The
Wasichu are not vegetarian (it would be asking too much to Divine Providence), and indeed have just devoured the last paired bison sacred to the Lakota. Lakota also tear if the priest whose turn distracted eyes enough, only just enough to exterminate all of them (a good Indian was a dead Indian.)
But a band of Lakota was taken that year by Wasichu beyond high water on a fire boat, up to a huge city, and it was London. Grandma prepared pies and tarts apricot for boys and girls Lakota. Grandma was small but fat, and liked it immediately because the Lakota was good with them. The Lakota danced in his honor. Then my grandmother said something like, "I sixty-seven years. Around the world I have seen all sorts of people, but today I saw the most beautiful people I know. If you apparteneste me, do not let that get you around in a performance ( * )
But the circus goes on the Grand Tour for the cities of Europe. Imprisoned in an evil spell the Lakota arrived in Manchester and there are lost in a forest roads and brick houses. Three Lakota and they lost their boat fire. Back in London, and like a dream come to Paris. A girl falls in love with Wasichu one of the three, takes him home, introduced him to his father and mother. The girl Wasichu learned some words in Lakota. From Paris, the three went to Germany, from Germany came to a place where the land burning has always (no one knew how to turn off the fire). " There was a high mountain, which ended in the shape of the tent, and there was burning. I heard that long ago a big city and many people had disappeared in the earth, in that place . "(* )
then returned to the Lakota home, but perhaps first visited the Cemetery of Pisa. They stopped in front of the fresco as any tourists in the Triumph of Death. They saw the three stages of the body after death. They saw the medieval dance macabre. One of them will in future be a shaman will see the hell of snow at Wounded Knee. The images of the dead were dancing the charge that the West Christian paid to the Bodhisattva. The nine stages of decay of the corpse in Buddhism were: (1 ) livid face, (2 ) swollen body, (3 ) swollen body, (4 ) body rot, (5 ) the body is prey of worms, (6 ) the body is green, you see the skeleton is stained with blood, (7 ) skeleton in anatomical connection, (8 ) broken bones, and scattered in dust; ( 9 ) just an old tomb in the middle of the vegetation, and nothing but drops of dew on the grass.
The seventh stage is a rite of passage facing the shaman in the world Eastern and American. So they returned to the Lakota
home. It immediately began to dance for the regeneration of the world, by the end of the world, the advent of a new land. A dance that lasted for days and nights. It was the so-called Ghost Dance Religion of Western historians.
few years later, beyond the great water, in a town called Milan, soldiers with guns and shoot guns at a crowd of forty thousand people (mostly women, children and old) were protesting against Double the price of bread. It was a day of May of 1898.
( * ) Black Elk Speaks , JG Neihardt (Adelphi, 1983)
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