Many tribal traditions have Trickster Teachers who dress in costume for Ceremony and wear regular clothing in their daily life. The Plains Indians called their Divine Trickster, Heyokah. The Hopi and Pueblo called him Koshario. Their jokes do not stop, however as they are teachers. All Heyokahs operate through opposites. These trickster teachers impart their wisdom to seekers in the exact opposite of how we might try to find the answers ourselves. The laughter that results is usually a lesson for the entire community.” ~Debbie Two Feathers
Heyókȟa [Heyoka] shows the Sacred Mirror and shatters the glass between worlds.” ~Axis and the Undernet
Heyókȟa moves between worlds, baffling the affable, amazing the baffled. Building broken bridges made stronger at the broken places. Channeling Mystery. Twisting ashes. Transforming hearts into wombs •Heyókȟa pulls Heaven down and Hell up, forcing a profane (sacred) union of opposites. Angels choke on halos. Demons get hard pressed into diamonds. God gets lost in the brambles. The devil’s heart becomes heavy with light. Meanwhile, Heyókȟa laughs and laughs and laughs. His shadow so gray it glows. • They are here to flip your script and scribble all over what you think you know. They are here to turn your tables into a feast where you just can’t kill the beast. • When you need shelter, Heyókȟa will be the rain. When you need a parachute, Heyókȟa will be the fall. When your glass house needs a mirror, Heyoka will be the stone. ~ Gary Z McGee
My be-ness will not be-less;
Refusal to comply
With compressing myself
To your comfort size.
Manifest my Destiny
No man claims ownership of me.
I am more
Human than Sovereign—
You do not reign
Over me,
Save your trickery.
You all have freedom to get lost
We lost ours to be found.
But you rain
On me,
Fallowing my fellows.
You who only know
Of pillaging Mother’s groves.
Take all, leave none.
Emotionally bankrupt Ones.
Mother wails that you’re her son
When you could have been her sun…
Thunderstorms.
Natural “disasters” named
After women—what is the implication?
How you think you’re the only one?
Deranged beliefs you’re alone,
You are never on your own.
Faulty beliefs never relieve
Never by yourself,
Always with yourself
Yet eluding views
Of self reflections —
Delusional derision.
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