Black Elk
Mythological Facts

Then I was standing
On the highest mountain
And beneath me was the whole world.

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I was seeing all things

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Like one being.

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And I saw one circle,

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And in the centre one mighty

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Flowering tree

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To shelter all.

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And it was holy.

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This was the vision of Black Elk,

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The last Keeper

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Of the Sacred Pipe

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of the Oglala Sioux,

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1872