My Renditional Assessment of Religion

[Gerry]

I think this is marvelous. What a great way to tell it. In my personal
universe I use the term "rhythms" the way he uses "tales" but it is the same
thing. Are these Mexican tribes? What part of Mexico?
G


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From: "Igor Loving" <lovingigor at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:55 PM
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> Here is a story from the Huisache.
> It is quite interesting in its telling.
> >From the Crossing
>
>
> "What does Caborca know of Huisiachepic, Huisiachepic of Corborca? They
are
> different worlds, you must agree. Yet even so there is but one world and
> everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also
which
> seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all
but
> is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all the lesser
> tales and yet these also are the selfsame tale and contain as weill all
else
> within them, So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the
hard
> lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. because the seams
> are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made.
> We have no way to tell  what might be taken away. What omitted. We have no
> way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are
> hid from us are of course the tale itself and the tale has no abode or
place
> of being except in the telling only there it lives and makes its home and
> therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is
no
> end. And wether in Caborca or in Huisiachepic or in whatever other place
by
> whateve other name or by no name at all I say again all tales ar one.
> Rightly heard all tales are one."
>
> " The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And
yet
> the world itself can have no temporal view of things. it can have no cause
> to favor certain enterprises over others. The passing of armies and the
> passing of desert sands are one. There is no favoring. How could there be?
> At whose behest? This man did not cease to believe in God. He did not come
> to have a modern view of God. There  was God and there was the world. The
> world would forget man but that God could not. And yet that was the very
> thing man wished for."
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