A Navajo Prayer

A friend sent me a link to a blog that linked to this.
I think the last part of this -- "I am restored..." etc. -- is one of the finest prayers I've ever heard.
And, yes, I think this is the strangest thread I've ever started.


http://books.google.com/books?id=3SwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=%22The+world+before+me+is+restored+in+beauty.%22&ei=M78uSfeMI5iyMNSYhe4G&client=firefox-a#PPA158,M1

 

We used a Navajo prayer at our wedding...if I can find it, i'll post it.

 

I remember that prayer being adapted, but not copied, by George Herriman in his decades-ahead-of-its-time Krazy Kat comic.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rf_RehmSjG4C&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=today+my+world+walks+in+beauty.+Beneath+me+a+good+earth-&source=web&ots=hWhZdjsedi&sig=XJxvG63lJWIgeX6HvjRQTyvn42g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

 

Think of Eurydice. Think of Lot's wife. It seems to be a universal tale. Should not one person in one culture at one time have made it?

 

wi --
You are the most erudite sumbitch for five counties around. You know this, right?

 

Fenian, there are quite a few intellectual cattle, as well as several bookish quail and thoughtful pheasants, who are preparing a long and indignant rebuttal to that remark.

 

As a side note, I'd recommend Krazy Kat to anyone interested in the 1920s and 30s- particularly those interested in visual art or jazz-age culture. The creator, George Herriman, was a genius of design and language whose work drew heavily from the influences of his native New Orleans and his adopted home of Monument Valley, Arizona. Lots of fun.