kinshoni
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Post by kinshoni on Apr 12, 2012 5:11:34 GMT -6
just thinking with tommorrow Friday 13th , do Native American's have superstitions . If we see a crows hanging around too much near you ,we consider this bad luck/usually connected to a death ,......i read somewhere the "Kiowa" Tribe believe also in this ?.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 5:32:20 GMT -6
I was always told Owls are bad luck, usually brings death....not sure if this is a Cherokee superstition or not!
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Post by Lone4eagle on Apr 12, 2012 17:33:55 GMT -6
Some don't see owls as just negative, it has to do with owls as a messenger, perhaps they could predict a death or bad disasters. To me they are more of an oracle to alert of possible future calamities to avoid..
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Post by Unregistered Cherokee on May 12, 2012 7:49:23 GMT -6
Help me understand whether this is a Cherokee myth or not. When I find myself around bees, I bite my tongue and leave them alone. I've never been stung. My Dad taught me that, but didn't say where that came from.
I usually make a mistake in something I do or make, so that it's not bad luck. That comes from knowing about intentionally putting in an off-color bead in a bead work, so that you don't bring on the bad juju of perfection - if it's not perfect, you won't be happy.
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Post by Lone4eagle on May 26, 2012 16:21:49 GMT -6
Bees have a complex eye system, called compound eyes. They actually can detect movement of people, animals, objects, etc. The eye of bees is made up of multiple image sensors or retinas. This enables them to capture movements, even while flying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Compound_eyes"A compound eye may consist of thousands of individual photoreceptor units or ommatidia (ommatidium, singular). The image perceived is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia (individual "eye units"), which are located on a convex surface, thus pointing in slightly different directions. Compared with simple eyes, compound eyes possess a very large view angle, and can detect fast movement and, in some cases, the polarisation of light.[22] Because the individual lenses are so small, the effects of diffraction impose a limit on the possible resolution that can be obtained (assuming that they do not function as phased arrays). This can only be countered by increasing lens size and number. To see with a resolution comparable to our simple eyes, humans would require compound eyes which would each reach the size of their heads.."
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Post by Unregistered Cherokee on May 27, 2012 17:21:41 GMT -6
In that case, it sounds like the reason for this habit is that it forces you to slow down and not make fast movements which attract the bees, because your jaws are capable of biting your tongue in half. I suppose it's an observation of self-preservation behavior being used to change a person's behavior in the presence of something that requires your focus. It reminds you to slow down while you're biting your tongue.
I've never been stung by one before. I hope I never do.
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