The Power of the Circle

Puddle, Easter Sun (March 30, 2013, Anchorage, Alaska)

“Everything the Power of the World does is done in circle.
The sky is round, and I have heard that the
earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle.
The moon does the same, and both are round.
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing,
and always come back again to where they were.
The life of a [person] is a circle from childhood to childhood,
and so it is in everything where power moves.”

Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

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