Friday, May 4, 2012


Windigo



The Wendigo (also known as Windigo, Weendigo, Windago, Windiga, Witiko, Wihtikow, and numerous other variants) is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of theAlgonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possesshumans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.
Wendigo psychosis is a culture-bound disorder which involves an intense craving for human flesh and the fear that one will turn into a cannibal. This once occurred frequently amongAlgonquian Native cultures, though has declined with the Native American urbanization.

The Wendigo is part of the traditional belief systems of variousAlgonquian-speaking tribes in the northern United States andCanada, most notably the Ojibwa/Saulteaux, the Cree, and theInnu/Naskapi/Montagnais. Though descriptions varied somewhat, common to all these cultures was the conception of Wendigos as malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural beings (manitous) of great spiritual power. They were strongly associated with the Winter, the North, and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation.
All cultures in which the Wendigo myth appeared shared the belief that human beings could turn into Wendigos if they ever resorted to cannibalism or, alternately, become possessed by the demonic spirit of a Wendigo, often in a dream. Once transformed, a person would become violent and obsessed with eating human flesh. The most frequent cause of transformation into a Wendigo was if a person had resorted to cannibalism, consuming the body of another human in order to keep from starving to death during a time of extreme hardship or famine.
Among northern Algonquian cultures, cannibalism, even to save one's own life, was viewed as a serious taboo; the proper response to famine was suicide or resignation to death. On one level, the Wendigo myth thus worked as a deterrent and a warning against resorting to cannibalism; those who did would become Wendigo monsters themselves.

Among the Assiniboine, the Cree and the Ojibwa, a satirical ceremonial dance was originally performed during times of famine to reinforce the seriousness of the Wendigo taboo. The ceremonial dance, known as a wiindigookaanzhimowin in Ojibwe and today performed as part of the last day activities of the Sun dance, involves wearing a mask and dancing about the drum backwards. The last known Wendigo Ceremony conducted in the United States was at Lake Windigo of Star Island of Cass Lake, located within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.


The term "Wendigo psychosis" (also spelled many other ways, including "Windigo psychosis" and "Witiko psychosis") refers to a condition in which sufferers developed an insatiable desire to eat human flesh even when other food sources were readily available, often as a result of prior famine cannibalism; Wendigo psychosis is identified by Western psychologists as a culture-bound syndrome, though members of the aboriginal communities in which it existed believed cases literally involved individuals turning into Wendigos. Such individuals generally recognized these symptoms as meaning that they were turning into Wendigos, and often requested to be executed before they could harm others. The most common response when someone began suffering from Wendigo psychosis was curing attempts by traditional native healers or Western doctors. In the unusual cases when these attempts failed, and the Wendigo began either to threaten those around them or to act violently or anti-socially, they were then generally executed. Cases of Wendigo psychosis, though real, were relatively rare, and it was even rarer for them to actually culminate in the execution of the sufferer.
One of the more famous cases of Wendigo psychosis involved a Plains Cree trapper from Alberta, named Swift Runner. During the winter of 1878, Swift Runner and his family were starving, and his eldest son died. Twenty-five miles away from emergency food supplies at a Hudson's Bay Company post, Swift Runner butchered and ate his wife and five remaining children. Given that he resorted to cannibalism so near to food supplies, and that he killed and consumed the remains of all those present, it was revealed that Swift Runner's was not a case of pure cannibalism as a last resort to avoid starvation, but rather of a man suffering from Wendigo psychosis. He eventually confessed and was executed by authorities atFort Saskatchewan. Another well-known case involving Wendigo psychosis was that of Jack Fiddler, an Oji-Creechief and shaman known for his powers at defeating Wendigos. In some cases this entailed euthanizingpeople suffering from Wendigo psychosis; as a result, in 1907, Fiddler and his brother Joseph were arrested by the Canadian authorities for murder. Jack committed suicide, but Joseph was tried and sentenced to life in prison, he was granted a pardon, but died three days after in jail, without knowing about it.
Fascination with Wendigo psychosis among Westernethnographerspsychologists, and anthropologists led to a hotly debated controversy in the 1980s over thehistoricity of this phenomenon. Some researchers argued that Wendigo psychosis was essentially a fabrication, the result of naïve anthropologists taking stories related to them at face value. Others, however, pointed to a number of credible eyewitness accounts, both by Algonquians and by Westerners, as proof that Wendigo psychosis was a factual historical phenomenon.
The frequency of Wendigo psychosis cases decreased sharply in the 20th century as boreal Algonquian people came in to greater and greater contact with Western ideologies and more sedentary, less rural lifestyles. While there is substantive evidence to suggest that Wendigo psychosis did exist, a number of questions concerning the condition remain unanswered.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Connyland Gasser Delphinarium : Une Honte Suisse



Many people desire an existence free of coercive authority, where all are at liberty to shape their own lives as they choose for the sake of their own personal needs, values, and desires. For such freedom to be possible, no individual person can extend his or her sphere of control upon the lives of others without their choosing. 

Many who challenge oppression in the modern world strive toward their conception of a "free society" by attempting to merely reform the most powerful and coercive institutions of today, or to replace them with "directly democratic" governments, community-controlled municipalities, worker-owned industrial federations, etc. Those who prioritize the values of personal autonomy or wild existence have reason to oppose and reject all large-scale organizations and societies on the grounds that they necessitate imperialism, slavery and hierarchy, regardless of the purposes they may be designed for. 

 A currency depended slave society is civilization's current dominant manifestation. 

A currency slave economy is controlled mainly by state-chartered corporations; these organizations are owned by stockholders who are free to make business decisions without being held personally accountable for the consequences. Legally, corporations enjoy the status of individuals, and thus an injured party can only target the assets of the company in a court case, not the possessions or property of the individual shareholders. and what do your animals have... well they have us to brings justice and some peace to there miserable  lives.

Those employed by corporations are legally required to pursue profit above all other possible concerns (e.g., ecological sustainability, worker safety, community health, in this case animal welfare, a person can be fired, sued, or prosecuted if they do otherwise. 

As a technologically advanced form of civilization, A currency depended slave society  encroaches upon and utilizes even greater territory, causing further reduction of the space available for life to freely flourish and move for its own purposes. Like civilization, currency dependent slaves conscripts both human Animal and non-human animal life into servitude if regarded as useful, and if regarded as otherwise it is disposes of . 

Under a currency depended slave society , most animals and people spend the majority of each conscious day (typically 8-12 hours) engaged in meaningless, monotonous, regimented, and often physically and mentally injurious labor to obtain basic necessities... like begging for food from you the trainer or better yet the prison guard. 

Privileged individuals also tend to work intensively and extensively, but typically to respond to social pressure or to satisfy an addiction to commodified goods, services and substances for pleasure . Because of the dullness, alienation, and disempowerment that characterizes the average daily experience, civilization exhibits high rates of depression, mental illness, suicide, drug addiction, and dysfunctional and unconscious abusive relationships as we can see here with this Dolphinarium, circuses and other animal attraction , along with other numerous vicarious modes of existence (e.g., through television, movies, pornography, video games, internet facebook etc). 

Because mass organizations must increase production to maintain their existence and to expand, they tend to imperialistically extend their scope of influence. Because cities and industries rely upon outside inputs, they aim to seize the surrounding areas for industrial use like large scale aquatic centers, rendering it inhospitable to both non-human ecosystems and self-sufficient human communities. This area will expand in relation to any increase in popularity. One could argue that industrial production could be maintained and yet scaled down, leaving ecosystems and non-industrial peoples some room to co-exist. Firstly, this proposal invites the question of why civilization should determine its own boundaries, instead of the victims of its predation. Secondly, there are no historical examples of production economies that do not expand, mainly because they must expand after depleting the resources available to them at any given time. 

The structural complexity and hierarchy of civilization must be refused, along with the political and ecological imperialism that it propagates across the globe. Hierarchical institutions, territorial expansion, and the mechanization of life are all required for the administration and process of mass production to occur. 

Only small communities of self-sufficient individuals  can coexist with other beings, human or not, without imposing their authoritarian will upon them.

The Liberation from a currency depended slave society  is TRUE freedom

Monday, July 25, 2011

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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Food for the Spirit


I have left out the name of the author due to the fact of the discrimination committed against him and others like him



Vegetarianism is my religion. I became a consistent vegetarian for many years now. Before that, I would try over and over again. But it was sporadic. Finally, I made up my mind. And I've been a vegetarian ever since.
When a Factory Farm kills an animal for food, They are neglecting their own hunger for justice. Civilized Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from their Gods? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. It is inconsistent.
I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from their Gods. If there would come a voice from God saying, "I'm against vegetarianism!" I would say, "Well, I am against what you say!" This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
In orthodox religious circles, this would be considered heretical. Still, I consider myself a spiritual man. I'm not for organized religion, and I don't take part in it. Especially when they interpret their religious books as being in favor of meat-eating. Sometimes they say He wants sacrifice and the killing of domesticated factory farm animals. If this is true, then I would never be able to comply. But I think your God is wiser and more merciful than that. And there are interpretations of religious scriptures which support this, saying that vegetarianism is a very high ideal.
Whether the mass of people accept the vegetarian interpretation of religion or not really doesn't matter. At least not in my life. I accept it implicitly. Of course, it would be wonderful if the world adopted vegetarianism, on spiritual grounds or any other. But this is not likely. I am a skeptic, it's true, but I'm also realistic. In any event, what the people in general do will not affect me. I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started to eat meat.

This is my protest against the conduct of civilized man. To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today. Nuclear power, starvation, cruelty exploitation war capitalism and especially specieism (Human intolerance or discrimination on the basis of species or race, especially as manifested by cruelty to or exploitation of animals and tribal peoples).- we must make a stand against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And it is a strong one.

This article pertains to the farm factory meat industry that contributes a major part of the pollution  cruelty and the exploitation of animals and animist tribal peoples by the way of stolen lands bodies and spirits and in conclusion if you consider your self - an eater of meat; well... your part of the problem that the  natural world is having with "civilized man"!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Its a fine day for the race








Racecar


Speaking my mind




Of Catholicism


Just the dogma


Of the PAST


Will be the way


Oppression


Were the hunger 


The happy hunting grounds


Descend into the EARTH.


SHELL


All my Relations


JOY


And I am filled




The end is near


With a Parasite


Depressed


Surface of the Earth


Once again


The human race


The race what race


Its a fine day




OR TO BECOME FUEL FOR MY RACECAR



OR TO BECOME FUEL FOR MY RACECAR








Its a fine day 


The race what race


The human race


Once again


Surface of the Earth


Depressed 


With a Parasite


The end is near


And I am filled 


JOY


All my Relations


SHELL


Descend into the EARTH.


The happy hunting grounds


Were the hunger 


Oppression


Will be the way


Of the PAST


Just the dogma 


Of Catholicism 


Speaking my mind




Racecar


AKAtjecoutay









Thursday, June 30, 2011

Crossing the line

Crossing the Line turns the politics and conflicts of a playground sandbox into an allegory for the way nations treat one another, and the borders seem to do more harm than good.


The land of sustenance or exploitation

The land of sustenance or exploitation
We live in a world of unawareness and unconsciousness where we have to make the everyday decision of just existing or the accumulation of “nice things” 
The temptation of acquiring “nice things”, where do we draw the line or are we aware that we can draw a line.
I come from a people that has been severely oppressed by  social Darwinism ( manifest destiny) and we have been  impoverished  for many years and struggle with a series of  addictions, now there is some hope of recovery on a individual  and community level, but in our recovery some important issues are over looked like Capitalisms and how we as a descendant  of Animist-Tribal peoples who are slowly losing our sense of who we once were and are embracing Capitalism: fast food, fast cars, shiny rocks, Fur, pop music, popular movies, cosmetics and all those elements and images that go along with it.
The last of the animist tribal peoples who still live in a semi-traditional  life style and not the ones who use it as a status symbol who believe they are still connected but the ones who still hunt for their food and trade the furs of their labours for other food and   necessities  to  sustain their life style, where do they draw the line, sell the fur to the corporation who really don’t give a dam about them and thier families, but only the fur that they exploit to accumulate wealth. 
Or do they go hungry or try hunting for them self’s or get jobs but where, were do they draw the line, exploitation  or self sustenance or hunger.
Capitalism is a nasty parasite and it has infected us all just take a good  look at the world and its condition there is 1% of the people that own  90% of the wealth and  we all have to share that remaining 10%.
As an Animist person the desire for nice things are very strong, a made-up face dyed hair bigger muscles expensive clothes to attract a lover, humvee and a diamond ring to woo him or her with or to say I support a cause so that we can masturbate are Egos and impress others and in the mean time accumulating “nice things” a personal cause, all these “nice things” have a price to be payed by who? Are hard earned money or the animals that all these “nice things” are tested on, the people  that are exploited so that they can eat or the earth, when the items and there packaging’s  are discarded.
Where do we draw the line? Is it all so hard to become aware of all these unconscious traits in are infected society or is it easier to go about are daily lives pretending we care or don’t care.
There is an effect for every cause, for every little thing that we do it has a repercussion for the smallest of life and now that we as a mass are just now becoming self-aware of the power we may have, and this  can be  utilized to change the negative process of Capitalism.
who is being exploited here the Animal the people who trade it or the people who ware it and how does Capitalism dictate your decision to make moral choice. 
SO Where do you draw the line?
Kerry Red Atjecoutay of the Animist indigenous Movement


This is the civilized result and solution to the Neo-Sacred Animal
You may be worshiping without even Knowing it!

The Fall of Capitalism

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Natural Destiny







Natural Destiny
Capitalist Pig, Bitch, Mad Cow, Yellow Chicken, Rezdog... No one of our relations is left safe from those insulting expressions which impregnates us so deeply that usually we let them out to despite ourselves. This vocabulary is not only scornful toward the animals but also it is unjust: the cows are mad only since they were forced feed with residual meat powder instead of their traditional vegetarian menu, the chicken are courageously facing their sad existences, a pig is dirty only if his concentration camp is not well-washed, and if a Rezdog claims to have a frenetic sexual activity, he would only be productive twice a year in the dogs true matriarchal society in which a bitch is not a prostitute but a caring mother. This disrespect is significant: it is through the linguistic gathering that we conceive our thought, that we extract a sense from it, then a conscience, that moreover we pretend to be a human essence. What we call our language is the reveller of the out-look build on the creation and from the position that the human being imagine to take up in her name. So be it, to speak about environment instead of invoking the nature shows how the anthropocentric materialism dominates our actual system of thinking: the environment is not much than a pre-text surrounding this God in which the being recognizes his ego; he is no more the nature, this lost animist bliss, forgotten into the incarnate worlds reign. Following the religions that have already separated us from the life by conferring to the creation a divine status, the science teaches us to see in it  as an escapee from the chaos mechanic, and governed by disincarnated laws. From now on we are ignoring the language of the nature or we only know it from diverse translation, religious or mechanical. But our explanations are false because the beauty is exiled. The one who loves the nature perceives a manifest form of solitude- her solitude- that lonely among the poets and the animals, may be, understand yet - The animal condition is the silent testimony of all that we have lost on our way: we who pretend to be human will only be relieved when contemplating with dread the whys and the wherefores, the nature has been abducted from the lands of our spirits