I’m Japanese, and we are also taught not to whistle at night, because it will summon forth snakes, or misfortunes. Thank you so much for sharing your culture. Respect is important no matter what culture you come from.
I learned from experience to 'listen' to what a person's eyes are saying, if there is any discrepancy between what the mouth is saying and what the eyes are saying trust the eyes!
I like that. i also hold with the old adage "By his deeds shall you know him." Rather don't go by what people say, but watch their patterns of behaviour.
@@KristiContemplates so did i, but thats exactly why i stare people in the eyes when they speak to me now. you will not try to pull wool over mine thinking i can’t see right through it. its had a lot of people stun and run into the shadow of spirit for me to never see them again and i took it later on as a blessing. use your power as discernment, not everyone has eyes like ours!!
I agree. Can be many reasons why a person doesn’t make eye contact beyond lying/trickery. Some of the reasons are social ineptness (similarly if they stare), eye disorders, those who get overstimulated easily (like autism), or those who have a dominant sense that’s sharper. For me, I can see just fine, make eye contact as needed, but prefer to listen. That’s why I will tilt my head when I’m actively listening. I “see” or observe thru sound, esp reading between the lines.
A'men.. A people who respect one another, have integrity, can see past the subterfuge...through the mirage of adversity. Realize the distinctions n'differences that define and characterize us are often the exact things to celebrate. Can see the similarities in the elders wisdom of many cultures. Believe we should still hold some things sacred like mother earth, balance, and a set of principles. Then yes... Teach metaphor and symbolism in schools, and, perhaps some codes of behavior. Otherwise, these children, these people, won't even realize they are standing in a doorway. They will come to find themselves an obstacle only when it's too late. In America, the lady justice is holding the balancing scales, yet she is blindfolded and looking the other way. Should she not, at least, have one eye peeking through at this point in time...or at least be trying to look at the scales through her blindfold?
What about when the elders are proven to be unreliable and inauthentic? I've learnt to listen to my inner spirit and I've met many elders who I feel are severely lacking in respect and wisdom and just go around carrying masks or propping their egos up on a pedestal at the expense of others. I can't listen to them just because they're old.
Funny story, I was taught that whistling was a no-no at night too. It’s a common Native teaching across the board. I had been awoken in the middle of the night to some noises in the living room. I got up to investigate and then I hear whistling and my heart dropped into my stomach and I was petrified bc who the heck would be whistling in the middle of the night...I assumed immediately that there was a bad spirit in the house. I immediately went to check on my boys and my youngest was wide awake, saying he couldn’t sleep and I asked if he was whistling and he said yes. He had been practicing and practicing at the time so any free chance he got, he whistled. I taught him at that time we don’t whistle at night lol. For one, it attracts all sorts of energies and two, you’re guna scare the bejeezus outta your parents
I would seek back in a move random object's an nothing super obvious move not steal or hide lol. They I'd seek out an come home the first time to them. Jk😅
Anthony Costelloe, I truly wish you would make some videos about Aboriginal customs, etc. Australia is the only continent that I have had a major desire to go to. I would love to learn your culture, and others do too. Please enlighten us.😁
When I was "homeless", truly free, I learned to use my ears for my eyes. A flash light is the worst thing to use in the woods at night. I got to the point I could see to walk barefoot in the woods at night. As my eyes focused on my steps my ears listened. Nature will teach you.
its a process of defocusing the eyes and realizing you cannot look directly at anything in the dark, you must allow your peripheral vision do the work.
The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same. Guru pathik avatar the last air bender
@@itgetter9 same to you as well. When I see rude, disrespectful people, racists, etc, I remind myself how fortunate I was and I passed it on to my children and grand daughters
I am a proud Navajo Woman, who was also taught from my grandparents and great-grandmother, do not play the string game until first snowfall. Do not lick or eat any snow from the first fall. Don't braid while pregnant. Do not climb and shake a pinion tree. I am sure you understand the reasoning for these other taboo's we should not do. I was told at a young age, I don't have my elders here today for me to understand even more why we cannot do these things. I speak Dine, my first language before English. I would love to get a deeper insight from you. Thank you Mr. Wally and your Son for hearing the calling to teach the ways of the Dine. I have so many questions and my memories of my upbringing that I need to teach my children and so forth. Thank you for passing our ways. I am from To'Hajiilee, NM.
Not licking the first snow makes sense as snow and rain can clear out the air. While pollution from modern society is the concern now, before our Industrial world, it would be clearing out dust, ash, and anything else cast into the atmosphere.
I was told to stop pointing my finger at people when I am talking to them...a Navajo Man told this to me and also prayed for me in his language...even though I didn't understand his language, I started crying because my soul understand...much respect...
Did he tell you why not to point? Not long ago I got mad at someone who was pointing at me when they were talking. I have bern told that energy shoots off my fingers when I point. I don't point anymore for long time now.
@@kind581 Very interesting. It irritates me to no end when someone points at me as they're speaking to me. My mother, grandmother always did this. Also I have a male friend that does it. Absolutely I think it's a negative energy put out even if they're just casually speaking. Almost as if they're invading my aura.
@S Wilson that makes sense about the energy shooting from your fingertips. Look at the likes of reiki and other holistic healing modalities. I had my hands activated 1 time at a ceremony, and in ireland there's a thing where we salute each other when we drive passed each other, whether we know the other person or not. Anyway, back to my point. After that ceremony, I could feel heat or cold shooting from my hands when I saluted people for ages. It doesn't happen as much any more. I must learn reiki, so I can control it better. 😅
Micah 4:2 “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
A woman in one of my classes who is Hmong told me that they have something like this as well. Whistling at night invites the spirits to enter your body 😨
How wonderful you are, sharing your teachings. In Ireland we say, " a whistling woman, and a crowing hen brings the devil from his den ". I remember whistling as a kid, and my granny gave me a clip around the ear . So she told me this saying, along with her smack I never forgot this lesson, well learned. We had the doorway rule too If a door opened by the wind, We had to shout, " Get Out ", incase it was something evil trying to enter. Thank you again and God bless you 🙏
My mother,would get very angry if any son or daughter would whistle period,and especially at night.Respect has gone out the day.Its still yes sir,no sir,yes mame,no mame,for me and my house.childre,grand and great-grand period
@@babystepsgarden6162 @Cathy Honeycutt My grandmother would say the same whenever she'd hear me whistling ("A whistling gal and a cackling hen always come to some bad end"), which she heard from her mother. I guess the saying traveled from Ireland to the American South.
Its just amazing how this man's talk has brought together so many Interesting people with their cultural influences and beliefs thankyou for Sharing.. blessings to you all
@@dianaahuche880 you seem to be perplexed. Let me explain. The reason why you keep your back to the wall so the your enemies cannot attack you from behind. The wall used in both the figurative and metaphorical meaning. There is an old saying: The friend of my friend is my friend. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. The enemy if my enemy is my friend.
I was told by my maternal Grandma it was bad to whistle at night. Later I learned later she was part Cherokee. She never told me of the Native ancestry because they kept it secret in the family.
@Center Masster No one ever taught me not to whistle at night but when I’ve done it I had a distinct that sense that it attracted something bad in the shadows. So interesting how this seems to show up over and over, even unconsciously
That's a sign that your mind is too easily influenced by outside forces. If you forget just because you changed rooms, that means your existence lacks continuity. If you're distracted by thoughts of past and future, then you won't have clear memories of what happened during those moments when you were distracted.
@@MyNoob300 It's such a widespread taboo around the world that I think it comes from a fear of predators. If you whistle at night you now made your exact position known to anything lurking out there looking for a meal.
Hootowl you mean the brave code talkers, the Diné people that never got their metals until many many years later Some died before they even got them, you are right we will never forget them, but the government did not give a flying hoot about them, what about the Filipino, MacArthur said they were the fiercest warriors he ever seen They didn’t get nothing either,WHY because if you ain’t white you ain’t right, Famous words of some of our government forefathers excuse me some of your forefathers mine was the original people from this country. AHO
@donald trump recognition should be given where it’s due. The Native American code talkers were one of the biggest reasons the United States won the war. And what happened after that was they got little recognition... pfft, figures.
I've always felt that way about doorways. That description about markings on the body is spot on. Not in a metaphysical sense but in a real sense. Every person I've ever met that was covered in tattoos was highly influenced. Many of them felt like they were pulled in different directions with their emotions and thoughts. They have no compass. Great metaphor he gave.
Our German family was the same. Many unspoken rules and you had to learn body language and to read between the lines because when a German in my family is truly angry they are very quiet and will not tell you what is wrong. You have to figure it out and avoid them until they calm down. Very hot tempers, and shouting is the final warning. Do not corner one of us, lol! We are still very Old Country in many ways and get along well with other people of old cultures like native americans and europeans. Generally unassuming and kind, we can be warlike if provoked, which is most old culture peoples. Forgiveness is hard for us.
@@OriginalGlorfindel I had a Navajo friend, Aron was his name. He said Ski, (would often call me by a shorthand of my last name) if your people (European) came here before they were Christian, our people would have gotten along.
that isn't an irish taboo ....im irish ( as in actually FROM ireland) and judging from this ....navajo is a very diff culture to ours by far ..I respect their culture and the people but I also respect its difference. To stand on another person's doorstep is a taboo though ...it means you expect to be asked in and its presumptive.
I believe mocking or making fun of someone brings bad karma. I have seen this backfire on people who have done it. I was also raised to not stand in the doorway & seems a lot of different cultures agreed on this one. Ty for your teachings 💕
Some Wisdom is more valuable than gold. This insight is exactly that. I'm proud to be Dine(Navajo)!!! My ancestors take very good care of me. I honor them with the offering of respect, admiration, prayer, love and compassion for all. Thank you, I love you all.
Wado Grandfather Wally for sharing these videos, it is nice to learn of the Navaho (Dine). This is sacred knowledge from one Tribe of people to other's. ✊ Those who ridicule the Elders and their ceremonies 🎑, bring bad karma upon themselves for certain. We enjoy these educational videos!! A'ho
Back when I was a child (I was born in 1955), there was no respect shown in movies or television for Native American traditions. I'm so glad things have changed. Living in the right way and praying to the Creator is nothing to mock! Anyhow, I've been catching your videos and thank you for sharing what you know.
After listening to these wise words, I cannot help but feel society has gone downhill due to a lack of being respectful and a lack of tradition in all cultures.....thankyou 🙏🙏🙏
I agree completely. Most don't recognize that they themselves are being disrespected and rude to by others...for unwittingly having been rude to the first one. The second one and the first one are just uneducated. They're just too ignorant.
Society has lost discipline in general ex: recently my sister died and all the kids were disrespectful as fuck by touching her body and running around knocking shit down at the funeral now i wasn't a genius child but i understood half their age not to do that shit ESPECIALLY at a family gathering
Wisdom that is desperately Lacking in White Christian Nationalist America!!! It is almost as if he was providing spiritual warnings for Jan 6th? - Don't Disrespect Honored Ceremonies - Don't Block Doorways - Don't put CARELESS Markings on Body, or Wear Clothing that Mocks SpiritWorld If only Arrogant Christians had RESPECT FOR PLANET and its people!!
I was taught all of these things, though there's a caveat to the no touching your sister...it was allowed if the brother/s were comforting us or being loving i.e rocking us, feeding, burping us, or having us snuggled in their lap for storytime. What was absolutely forbidden was any form of aggression boys were not allowed to hit, or bully the girls ever!
@@wisewoman7906 yep, that's dead on; we weren't allowed to provoke the boys either. That said, there was a fair amount of teasing and pranking going on! Nothing harmful or shameful, just passing time and having fun!
He reminds me of our elders here in Greece, in remote villages that they still keep traditions... they pass down the same knowledge (the same way leaning on their walking sticks!)
Traditions are there for a reason. I know too many who sneer at such things and called them "old-fashioned" and such people "dinosaurs". They forget that people in the past were very, very smart. Dinosaurs ruled this planet for millions of years too, now I think about it.
@@jugbywellington1134 lucky enough the modern Greek society is not that far from it's roots. I m in my thirties and sometimes compering my shelf with relatives that live abroad and it feels light years apart. They lack basic life skills...
@@allinab. I've never been to Greece, but I've always wanted to (Portugal is another place I need to visit!). I taught a pair of Greek girls English one summer, and they were both excellent. I want to see the country that produced them. I have the impression from afar that there are Greeks who still have "one hand in the soil", and that is very healthy. I'm in the UK and many think themselves "advanced" because they have "cool gear" and phones. If only that were true! So many of our youngsters are so utterly helpless, know nothing of our history (Europe's) and are not ashamed of it! When I say nothing, I mean it quite literally. I had a sociology graduate ask me which war Hitler had been in, FGS! She is supposed to know about society and how it is manipulated but didn't know that. There are good ones, of course, but too many of the others.
@@jugbywellington1134 oh, I wish that you have the chance to experience Greece some day. The real one not the cosmic places. Ok they're great to, but I mean the culture, the generosity of people that live in our small villages not really touched by tourism yet, there so REAL that's breathtaking. As for our youth don't let me start....same here they know NOTHING at all, not even speak properly...but I'm still hoping...lol
@@ZZH1986 you do not get it if you do not block with your body you will when you close it.so come down to square !1 after all ,,when someone s come to sell something at your door or complain of something..assuredly you will not allow that person in..and yet you are there at the door talking to them..so makes non sense to me! unless your try to say the devils..or spirits.which is not their " place to be there..if there is a portal..and we do not see.we are not liable if you block them/..anyways again.makes non sense..cos spirit is made of another substance and can go through anything
@@pernambuco-viagoogle9505 You are thinking literally. The door is a figure of speech... its a path that one takes or does not. But if you are blocking that path by standing in the metaphorical doorway, then other travelers will never know what waits them on the other side. So your indecision rather to enter the door or not enter the door, impeded someone else who knew what they wanted in life.
I am from Bosnia and I was told by my grandmother never to whistle at night, she said bad energies are attracted by it. Thank you for this little gems of Navajo people💜
Ja sam uvijek mislila da moja majka tako kaže da mi djeca nesmijemo zviždati jer njima odraslima to ide na živce😅 Ali mi je poslije moja nana objasnila zašto i koji razlog stoji iza toga. Eto kako neki univerzalni zakon postoji kroz čitav svijet.
In Aotearoa, some tribes forbade whistling at night as it was likened to calling your own ghost meaning you were predicting or predetermining your own death which relates to the elders talk in the clip but also called the bad energies like others have mentioned as well so it seems we all have that in common which is wonderful! The door thing is quite sacred here as well as it represents life inside & death outside & if you stand in the door you block the natural flow of energy which is similar to the feng shui philosophy. My culture relates so much to the first Nations Americans that it would not be surprising if we crossed paths in Ancient times
Nature has some serious chemistry that will leave you with all sorts of spiritual encounters. DMT is a good one for that and you do not need to travel to the southwest to encounter it.
@@devonajohnson280 I don't have to remember. I am fully aware. Further adds to my claim that white, conservative men did not settle this land. It was already settled before we got here.
It's astonishing that almost all the traditional things that r being discussed in every culture of the world it's mere language is different and the person is different but the traditions r all connected.
The marking resonates so deeply. My Native family saw a tattoo on me that was on my arm and they covered it during a ritual. This explains why that happened. Thank you!
The doorway teaching is particularly interesting to me because I once had a profound spiritual experience when I became aware that I was standing on a threshold and then took a step forward after realizing that one should not dwell on the boundary. What came next changed my life.
I've only recently learned about not whistling at night, but my grandmother would warn us about the wompus cat coming out at night.I can't stand when anyone stands in doorways or when people shadow me when I'm busy. We were taught to never disrespect others no matter how different they do things.
@@vaportrail226 I think it's the idea of freedom of movement being restricted that causes some anxiety with blocked doorways, but that depends on someone's personal experiences and ancestry. The egg we come from first exists in womb of a fetus, during our grandmother's pregnancy with our mother. We inherit all the emotional memories of our ancestors without realizing it. Very interesting.
I've heard to never cut your hair at night, when you get a new home, the door faces the East, and to not have any of your personal belongings outside. Ex. Hair ties, clothing, etc. I'm Navajo btw from Utah. I regret not asking my parents or grandparents about any of these before they left this world. If you know your 4 clans, no matter where you go, you will always have family. 😊 Awesome video!! Ahe'hee
I love his language. So beautiful and strong.God bless all the native Americans. Wise elders of all cultures should be listened to. Also very interesting spiritual wisdom they have
My father - a wise man - told me and my siblings that if we want to be accepted in a new place, whether visiting for a few days or working it is important to drink water available in the place, tap or well or stream whatever form it comes in. Growing up in the islands and later as a health worker who often travels for work into inland remote areas I find a sense of peace and acceptance when I do this.
We'll, at least you knew your tribe. I don't recall what tribe my great grandmother was or if I was ever taught it. Her family avoided the round-up of pushing Indians into reservations... That said, she was never counted by any official census and there's no way of ever getting that information. It took a long time to get clearance for my job in the military because my Grandpa came from no one as if he were Adam himself.
@Jon Smyth That’s fascinating! I believe memories can be passed down through DNA, for sure. Perhaps you were experiencing a memory that way. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Just know the indians do believe in a Great Spirit and we know HIM as the HOLY SPIRIT, THE MOST HIGH GOD. The native american indians know and we know. May the HOLY SPIRIT bring us together, as brethrens, under HIM.
Great video! It was really interesting to hear him speak about whistling at night. Many Gaelic cultures have similar rules. Particularly when one is traveling near faerie glens. Legend says that they will grow too fond of your music and take you down to the underground fae kingdoms and make you sing for them forever.
I want to express my deepest gratitude for the priceless gift being shared here. I have always had great respect for all First Nations people around the world. Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
I"m new here. I am very grateful and thankful for your teachings. I grew up in New Mexico, my mother made sure we knew about the First People of the Land and that we should respect them and learn from their ways. Thank you for giving your time.
@@levelintent I think you might of commented in the wrong section?... I dont see how you have made a comment that is relevant to anything talked about here...
@@levelintent calm down, because of the first sentence I actually thought you may have commented on the wrong video, these things happen, so (if that was the case) i thought I would inform you. I was wrong
i used to have a boss who whistled everywhere he walked or was his nephew hated that habit of his but i loved it because i knew where he was and he couldn't slip up on me
I had a boss and a few other officials who smelled like they bathed in perfume... I could smell them coming from over a 100 yards out if they were up wind, and I knew who was who lol... im glad I work outside, office buildings can be nauseating.
Oh , it's ok for evil spirits tp whistle for precisely that reason. Just don't do it youself. Cats either nothings more irritating than cats whistling.
@@Charlesbabbage2209 precisely. My boss does this to the employees he relies on. One time I asked him if he was whistling at me like a dog and he told that he was giving me an alert he was coming. I responded "So you're training me like one. Fair enough."🤣
It is the second time in one day I hear not to whistle at night. The other place has been a Dyatlov Pass video, where some Ural mountains native woman tells not to whistle because that will make angry the russian yeti in the forest.
Thank you for your time, wisdom and energy. My mother was of the Iroquois. We were not allowed to acknowledge that heritage. I was her only daughter. My brothers and Dad were proud of the Scandanavia side of our family. As an adult, I am learning as much as I can. ☮️💜🦀🦁🛡️⚔️
I am Chippewa (Turtle Mountian Tribe) & Cree (just found this out and trying to learn more); everyone that could share teachings have passed and I thank you so very much for your knowledge, wisdom, and positivity. I watch these with my kids and we have conversations. I have drawn all of my tattoos and show my growth as a women, wife, and mother.
Okinawa is home to the Ryukuan people, who are closer genetically to the Ainu than the Yamato Japanese. The Ainu are said to come from Siberia. The Native Americans also.
My people, the Tongans, from the pacific, we also share the tradition of never touching our sister because our sisters are held in high esteem, it's a respect thing. I was told as a kid, that the boys never use the same products, never share a piece of clothing, never go into the room of their sister and our language is to be respectful around them. I've sort of lost that as I've grown up, thought it was too limiting but I didn't see that it was special and a part of my identity
I think it's a pretty good rule considering the problem with assault from family member. I love my brother but I've only hugged him once after a death. Never again lol. I'm actually a very touchy feely person though. I'm not saying no one should hug their siblings... But maybe dial back on letting them bath and sleep together past toddlers lol To me it's just invitation to see your siblings in a sexual light. No thanks lol
I’m from the Appalachian mountains and whistling at night is also a big taboo, sad to call bad luck, evil spirits and even death himself. I had never thought about the reason behind it. Thank you for sharing the teachings of your culture!
"Don't stand in the doorway. Don't block up the hall." - Bob Dylan It sounds as if many traditions are from ancient times. Very interesting. Modern society doesn't recognize many of these rules, especially here in America, because we're so developed and "cultured".
I met this gentleman over 30 years ago at a weekend long Native initiation ceremony @ Mecotha in Houston! He admitted to me he believed in Christ's being and reality!
We get a lot of this in the UK too, people walk out of a shop door and just stand still for a chat. Then they get miffed with others that they have forced to say EXCUSE ME! They tell the people trying to enter or exit that THEY are rude!
I was taught the same things as a child as a South African child... standing at the door way was the most important one. Thank you for your teachings ❤️❤️❤️
I grew up around the Navajo and Zuni culture. I have always loved how spirit filled they are and the teachings. THANK YOU for teaching me a few new ones I didn't know.
I am half Navajo and half Peruvian. My parents are now deceased but I have a foot in each door and though I was born and live in Perú I still remember a lot of Navajo teachings. My grandfather was a medicine man in the reservation. Life is so precious and we are really all as one. Respect for all ethnicities.
Not to Whistle at night seems to be a message from many places around the world. I will remember this and share it with my grandchildren.... Wisdom should be passed on generation to generation. We are witnessing a generation who missed out.
Thank you Our Elder... I am tohono O'Odham thank you for the teaching of our Native culture I am finding the way back our culture.. every little bit helps me to pass down to our children.... REZPECT ✊🏼🏹🇲🇽⚒️🦅🌵
I never knew that. I'm very grateful that your telling us these stories because I'm learning as I hear you talking about these taboos. My parents told me never whistle or burn your hair in the fire when finished combing your hair. There are other things that my parents told me not to do which I never knew now I know and I keep the teachings to my children. Thank you.
Nízhoni Mr. Wally I enjoy your lecture and philosophical ways breaking down on tradition teachings or spiritual guidance, so to speak ... stay safe, Sir
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I am especially touched by the markings. As a Judaic believer and student of Torah I love the your insight to standing in the doorway... This is all so fitting and complimentary to my belief system. I am love gleening from your channel 💜
This video is beautiful & deeply precious. But, I think the most beautiful thing is going through the comments and seeing people from all over not only enjoying this wisdom but sharing similar beliefs. Shows we ALL used to be so much more connected, it's really sad now to see just how far from being like that again we truly are. Love & prosperity to all who are of love & of life.
Just found this channel today and I already LOVE it. My great grandfather was 1/2 native american but unfortunately the surviving family members do not know what tribe because the older ones felt they had to hide it to fit in with society when they were younger so they do not remember. He died when I was 12 and he was a giant in my eyes. He was one of my hero's. I have missed him severely thoughout my life. Wish I could set and talk with him once more to ask those questions and many more.
Hmm, maybe try approaching several tribes, see if they can help you get started? Find out which "boarding school" any of your relatives might have attended and try to get as many records as you can. Don't give up. Good luck.
When they first set out the rules and regulations for Hazardous Materials transport by tractor/trailer rigs, all truck stops were supposed to set aside a special area for the most dangerous category. Explosives. The special area was to be called a Safe Haven and noted by signs pointing the way. At the truck stop my mother worked at as a cashier invariably a tourist family would go there to spread out the blanket and have a nice picnic on their journeys.
Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
@@loosie.goosie you know a man wrote that, don’t you? You know you can trust someone and their ideas, when they’re threatened by the idea of you being exposed to any other source of information.
@@Catlady-mw4en “It is this: that those who were the most zealous to write history, were not solicitous for the discovery of truth: although it was very easy for them always to make such a profession: but their business was to demonstrate that they could write well, and make an impression upon mankind thereby. And in what manner of writing they thought they were able to exceed others, to that did they apply themselves. (6) Some of them betook themselves to the writing of fabulous narrations. Some of them endeavoured to please the cities, or the Kings, by writing in their commendation. Others of them fell to finding faults with transactions, or with the writers of such transactions, and thought to make a great figure by so doing. And indeed these do what is of all things the most contrary to true history. For it is the great character of true history, that all concerned therein both speak and write the same things. While these men by writing differently about the same things, think they shall be believed to write with the greatest regard to truth.” Flavius Josephus “Of The Antiques of the Jews; Against Apion; Book I”
@@loosie.goosie again, you know a man wrote that, don’t you? How do you know he was not one of the zealous writers who was not “solicitous for the discovery of truth”?
Ahow Mosom, I received the same teachings as a young one. Today, my adult children (daughter, son) do not touch each other, I do not touch my adult son other than to greet him or give him a hug when it’s his birthday or mine or he emotionally needs it. We were taught to use the medicines to keep our humanness intact, and keep from straying. I also do not keep sole company with my son in law, that’s taboo. Red is our most powerful colour, it is healing. Hiy Hiy for these teachings from your Nation.
I just love finding wisdom from teachings, especially native american that explain things I already know and do but don't know why!!!!! Validation is a wonderful healer in today's crazy world.....
I love this! My Puerto Rican parents used to tell me to never whistle at night because it would call evil spirits. Very interesting that the Navajo have the same superstition. I wonder if my parents passed this down from our Taíno ancestors? 🌟
well, thing is, you should not even call it a"superstition"; because that implies that it's a false belief, and this info he gives is the real thing, it is not a false belief, it is the real thing, a reality......and yes, the Tiano people had a long time connection to the people on the mainland, to the north...and south....Much trade used to go on, back in ancient times..
I’m Japanese, and we are also taught not to whistle at night, because it will summon forth snakes, or misfortunes.
Thank you so much for sharing your culture. Respect is important no matter what culture you come from.
This is represented in one episode of mushishi. It's also a believe here in Venezuela, I think because Amerindians needed to beware of jaguars.
@@TheGrmany69 Yes, I love Mushishi!
Lots of native americans originated from asia, it's possible they have commun belifes with asians dating back before they crossed pacific..
@@MrUlema-iu9ss That’s a very interesting thought!
Same for Hawaii
"Come in, or get out, but don't stand on the doorway" is common here in Finland as well
Shit, or get off the pot. Check out Joseph Campbell.
Tipu, I hadn't thought about it before however it makes plenty of sense when a hogan, or other structure, only has one doorway. Thank you for sharing.
Its common in india and java also
of couse, it‘s bloody cold outside. ;)
In or out...yes my mom too. I'm in USA
I learned from experience to 'listen' to what a person's eyes are saying, if there is any discrepancy between what the mouth is saying and what the eyes are saying trust the eyes!
I avoid looking people in the eyes. Apparently I'm too intimidating and can see too much
I like that. i also hold with the old adage "By his deeds shall you know him." Rather don't go by what people say, but watch their patterns of behaviour.
@@KristiContemplates so did i, but thats exactly why i stare people in the eyes when they speak to me now. you will not try to pull wool over mine thinking i can’t see right through it. its had a lot of people stun and run into the shadow of spirit for me to never see them again and i took it later on as a blessing. use your power as discernment, not everyone has eyes like ours!!
Unreliable tactic. An honest person can just be naturally nervous.
Eye contact is considered disrespectful in some cultures too.
I agree. Can be many reasons why a person doesn’t make eye contact beyond lying/trickery. Some of the reasons are social ineptness (similarly if they stare), eye disorders, those who get overstimulated easily (like autism), or those who have a dominant sense that’s sharper. For me, I can see just fine, make eye contact as needed, but prefer to listen. That’s why I will tilt my head when I’m actively listening. I “see” or observe thru sound, esp reading between the lines.
Teaching of Elders is invaluable and should not be hidden in any culture.
A'men.. A people who respect one another, have integrity, can see past the subterfuge...through the mirage of adversity. Realize the distinctions n'differences that define and characterize us are often the exact things to celebrate. Can see the similarities in the elders wisdom of many cultures. Believe we should still hold some things sacred like mother earth, balance, and a set of principles. Then yes...
Teach metaphor and symbolism in schools, and, perhaps some codes of behavior.
Otherwise, these children, these people, won't even realize they are standing in a doorway. They will come to find themselves an obstacle only when it's too late.
In America, the lady justice is holding the balancing scales, yet she is blindfolded and looking the other way. Should she not, at least, have one eye peeking through at this point in time...or at least be trying to look at the scales through her blindfold?
What about when the elders are proven to be unreliable and inauthentic? I've learnt to listen to my inner spirit and I've met many elders who I feel are severely lacking in respect and wisdom and just go around carrying masks or propping their egos up on a pedestal at the expense of others. I can't listen to them just because they're old.
@@ReadyMindsetGo perhaps then your lessons will teach others the respect and wisdom you seek in future generations
Everything he says makes sense to my spirit too. Like the teachings feel like I already innately know not to do those things
@@Kinobambinoyour soul knows things your mind may not yet. Intuition and gut instinct stem from our souls knowledge.
Funny story, I was taught that whistling was a no-no at night too. It’s a common Native teaching across the board. I had been awoken in the middle of the night to some noises in the living room. I got up to investigate and then I hear whistling and my heart dropped into my stomach and I was petrified bc who the heck would be whistling in the middle of the night...I assumed immediately that there was a bad spirit in the house. I immediately went to check on my boys and my youngest was wide awake, saying he couldn’t sleep and I asked if he was whistling and he said yes. He had been practicing and practicing at the time so any free chance he got, he whistled. I taught him at that time we don’t whistle at night lol. For one, it attracts all sorts of energies and two, you’re guna scare the bejeezus outta your parents
Hahaha right, I like that
Whistle past the graveyard
Not whistling at night is taught is many many cultures.
I would seek back in a move random object's an nothing super obvious move not steal or hide lol. They I'd seek out an come home the first time to them.
Jk😅
I only know one nation that has a clan that whistles at night during ambushes. They are the only ones I know of.
These teachings seem to center around general respect, decency, common sense, and survival. I can dig it. 👍🏾
Ironically, common sense seems to be continually diminishing these days.
Mostly the common sense part. It's almost like we don't need these teachings😐
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I'm aboriginal from Australia and we were taught not to whistle at night because you attract bad spirits
I hear that was a tradition taught here in the southeast of the US. The sound traveling farther at night makes sense.
In the Islamic tradition. Children are to be brought inside after the sun goes down. As that's when the evil spirits come out.
@ - you should never whistle when on board ship lest you ‘whistle up the wind’ and cause a storm
Anthony Costelloe, I truly wish you would make some videos about Aboriginal customs, etc. Australia is the only continent that I have had a major desire to go to. I would love to learn your culture, and others do too. Please enlighten us.😁
What about tattoos I got two so I’m fucked
When I was "homeless", truly free, I learned to use my ears for my eyes. A flash light is the worst thing to use in the woods at night. I got to the point I could see to walk barefoot in the woods at night. As my eyes focused on my steps my ears listened. Nature will teach you.
You are right. That's very true. Back home we use to walk km bare foot at night and could hear anything around us and be able to see as well.
Technology is not the enemy it's the person behind it that could be your enemy
The light is to know ourself.. We must know ourselves ❤️
its a process of defocusing the eyes and realizing you cannot look directly at anything in the dark, you must allow your peripheral vision do the work.
Until you step into fire ant colony.
Many cultures around the world have similar teachings, it tells me we all are really not different from each other
I believe peoples used to travel all over world and it wasn't just Columbus and those few famous explorers who done it first.
@@rengurenge columbus was just one of the ones that caused the most harm from his travels 🤧
We are all connected
The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same.
Guru pathik avatar the last air bender
We all share common parents
My parents forbade mocking anyone's ceremonies or rituals. Raised us to be respectful
This is great! The world needs that kind of parenting. Blessings to you
@@itgetter9 same to you as well. When I see rude, disrespectful people, racists, etc, I remind myself how fortunate I was and I passed it on to my children and grand daughters
How about cannibalistic practices?
@@3o3tigger No mocking, but legitimate criticism and questioning permitted. Good one!
as it should be. my parents were the same. they encouraged us to learn and appreciate others cultures and rituals.
I am a proud Navajo Woman, who was also taught from my grandparents and great-grandmother, do not play the string game until first snowfall. Do not lick or eat any snow from the first fall. Don't braid while pregnant. Do not climb and shake a pinion tree. I am sure you understand the reasoning for these other taboo's we should not do. I was told at a young age, I don't have my elders here today for me to understand even more why we cannot do these things. I speak Dine, my first language before English. I would love to get a deeper insight from you. Thank you Mr. Wally and your Son for hearing the calling to teach the ways of the Dine. I have so many questions and my memories of my upbringing that I need to teach my children and so forth. Thank you for passing our ways. I am from To'Hajiilee, NM.
Are you near Gallup
What is thw string game?
Teach me Navajo
@Miss Sugarbaker because the braiding can shape the umbilical cord--a pregnant woman can be very powerful
Not licking the first snow makes sense as snow and rain can clear out the air. While pollution from modern society is the concern now, before our Industrial world, it would be clearing out dust, ash, and anything else cast into the atmosphere.
I was told to stop pointing my finger at people when I am talking to them...a Navajo Man told this to me and also prayed for me in his language...even though I didn't understand his language, I started crying because my soul understand...much respect...
Did he tell you why not to point? Not long ago I got mad at someone who was pointing at me when they were talking. I have bern told that energy shoots off my fingers when I point. I don't point anymore for long time now.
@@kind581 I will remember to make pew pew sounds next time I have to point at someone in an argument, thank you.
@@kind581 Very interesting. It irritates me to no end when someone points at me as they're speaking to me. My mother, grandmother always did this. Also I have a male friend that does it. Absolutely I think it's a negative energy put out even if they're just casually speaking. Almost as if they're invading my aura.
@S Wilson that makes sense about the energy shooting from your fingertips. Look at the likes of reiki and other holistic healing modalities.
I had my hands activated 1 time at a ceremony, and in ireland there's a thing where we salute each other when we drive passed each other, whether we know the other person or not. Anyway, back to my point. After that ceremony, I could feel heat or cold shooting from my hands when I saluted people for ages. It doesn't happen as much any more.
I must learn reiki, so I can control it better. 😅
Don’t whistle at night..that is calling in the dark energy. That is a teaching here in Hawaii..similar to your teaching.
Micah 4:2
“And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
A woman in one of my classes who is Hmong told me that they have something like this as well. Whistling at night invites the spirits to enter your body 😨
I'm a Sufi Muslim and I was taught this too !!
What about singing?
Night marchers
How wonderful you are, sharing your teachings. In Ireland we say, " a whistling woman, and a crowing hen brings the devil from his den ". I remember whistling as a kid, and my granny gave me a clip around the ear . So she told me this saying, along with her smack I never forgot this lesson, well learned. We had the doorway rule too If a door opened by the wind, We had to shout, " Get Out ", incase it was something evil trying to enter. Thank you again and God bless you 🙏
My Granny use to say "A whistling woman and a crowing hen always comes to some bad end."
My Grandmother said A whistling woman and a a crowing hen is of no use to God or men
My mother,would get very angry if any son or daughter would whistle period,and especially at night.Respect has gone out the day.Its still yes sir,no sir,yes mame,no mame,for me and my house.childre,grand and great-grand period
Sheila Cassidy I'm also Irish. When we were young, If a door opened by it's self, we would say "come in, you're welcome".
@@babystepsgarden6162 @Cathy Honeycutt My grandmother would say the same whenever she'd hear me whistling ("A whistling gal and a cackling hen always come to some bad end"), which she heard from her mother. I guess the saying traveled from Ireland to the American South.
How come, seemingly, every culture in the entire world knows about whistling at night but I've never heard of it.
I didnt know about the night whistling, but English sailors are not allowed to whistle on board ship as it brings bad luck
There are actually people who use whistling as their language. It’s not every culture.
I whistle at night frequently. Never had any problems. Then again, I'm sealed.
@@1Immortalmortal like a Ziploc?
@@1Immortalmortal what is sealed?
I am delighted to be learning and appreciate your teaching so very much. Thank you Grandfather.
Hi
Its just amazing how this man's talk has brought together so many Interesting people with their cultural influences and beliefs thankyou for Sharing.. blessings to you all
It just goes to show that we're really not all that different. Truth is truth and respect always open doors and brings us together.
Blessings
This man’s wisdom is TRULY precious ❤️🌟🔥🐍👑❤️
Always keep your back to the wall of the room so that you can always keep an eye on your friends coming in and also your enemies.
Hmmm
Amen
@@dianaahuche880 you seem to be perplexed.
Let me explain. The reason why you keep your back to the wall so the your enemies cannot attack you from behind. The wall used in both the figurative and metaphorical meaning.
There is an old saying:
The friend of my friend is my friend.
The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
The enemy if my enemy is my friend.
I thought that was Mafia wisdom
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@@erismana2105 it is.
Oh wow, my Jamaican grandmother warned my brother and I about whistling at night for the same reasons. Interesting
I have a Cuban grandma a she always warned us about this as well!
In Trinidad and Tobago we were warn about that too
Louisiana same thing. Thought it came from hoodoo. Wow.
I was told by my maternal Grandma it was bad to whistle at night. Later I learned later she was part Cherokee. She never told me of the Native ancestry because they kept it secret in the family.
@Center Masster No one ever taught me not to whistle at night but when I’ve done it I had a distinct that sense that it attracted something bad in the shadows. So interesting how this seems to show up over and over, even unconsciously
When you change a room, the doorway changes your mind, therefore we sometimes forget what we wanted to do in the other room.
So enlightening now understand this.
That's a sign that your mind is too easily influenced by outside forces. If you forget just because you changed rooms, that means your existence lacks continuity. If you're distracted by thoughts of past and future, then you won't have clear memories of what happened during those moments when you were distracted.
@@GizzyDillespee Very true.
@@GizzyDillespee oh ffs calm down it ain't that deep 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Very good
"you should never whistle at night" my dad born and raised in Africa used to tell me this all the time.
Why
@@MyNoob300 It's such a widespread taboo around the world that I think it comes from a fear of predators. If you whistle at night you now made your exact position known to anything lurking out there looking for a meal.
@Umbuko DaJuko does whistle at night apply to attracting spirits to enter into your home?
@@vortex_1336 yeah, sometimes in my deep sleep I hear whistling , as if someone is trying to get my attention from another dimension?
Mama Africa told me too*** its the orgin of Humanity. African Women is Zur Mother of Humanity.
Is that a Marine Corps medallion around the Elder's neck? We will never forget the brave Code Talkers. Semper, Fi Brother.
Absolutely our Natives were LYNCH PIN in the WAR Startegy to BRING PEACE 4 ALL QUITE SUCCESSFULLY
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Hootowl you mean the brave code talkers, the Diné people that never got their metals until many many years later Some died before they even got them, you are right we will never forget them, but the government did not give a flying hoot about them, what about the Filipino, MacArthur said they were the fiercest warriors he ever seen They didn’t get nothing either,WHY because if you ain’t white you ain’t right, Famous words of some of our government forefathers excuse me some of your forefathers mine was the original people from this country. AHO
@donald trump recognition should be given where it’s due. The Native American code talkers were one of the biggest reasons the United States won the war. And what happened after that was they got little recognition... pfft, figures.
@donald trump with your attitude, why are you here on this page? If you cant be respectful, go else where
I've always felt that way about doorways. That description about markings on the body is spot on. Not in a metaphysical sense but in a real sense. Every person I've ever met that was covered in tattoos was highly influenced. Many of them felt like they were pulled in different directions with their emotions and thoughts. They have no compass. Great metaphor he gave.
My Irish grandmother would get after us if we hung out in a doorway, “in or out”.
Our German family was the same. Many unspoken rules and you had to learn body language and to read between the lines because when a German in my family is truly angry they are very quiet and will not tell you what is wrong. You have to figure it out and avoid them until they calm down. Very hot tempers, and shouting is the final warning. Do not corner one of us, lol!
We are still very Old Country in many ways and get along well with other people of old cultures like native americans and europeans. Generally unassuming and kind, we can be warlike if provoked, which is most old culture peoples. Forgiveness is hard for us.
Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing. I feel obligated to know so thst the culture may survive though I am not a native. Peace be unto you.
Old Celtic wisdom 😏
@@OriginalGlorfindel I had a Navajo friend, Aron was his name. He said Ski, (would often call me by a shorthand of my last name) if your people (European) came here before they were Christian, our people would have gotten along.
that isn't an irish taboo ....im irish ( as in actually FROM ireland) and judging from this ....navajo is a very diff culture to ours by far ..I respect their culture and the people but I also respect its difference. To stand on another person's doorstep is a taboo though ...it means you expect to be asked in and its presumptive.
I believe mocking or making fun of someone brings bad karma. I have seen this backfire on people who have done it. I was also raised to not stand in the doorway & seems a lot of different cultures agreed on this one.
Ty for your teachings 💕
Im so glad that these teachings can be preserved and passed down 💛
Some Wisdom is more valuable than gold. This insight is exactly that.
I'm proud to be Dine(Navajo)!!! My ancestors take very good care of me. I honor them with the offering of respect, admiration, prayer, love and compassion for all.
Thank you, I love you all.
Great wisdom, respect & common sense. Those who will listen can learn much from our Native Americans.
Amen- ..I agree with
As far as " RESPECT "...and ..COMMON SENSE "..
Those are ..' individual opinions""🤭
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@@ProfessorShnacktime Same reaction.
Wado Grandfather Wally for sharing these videos, it is nice to learn of the Navaho (Dine).
This is sacred knowledge from one Tribe of people to other's. ✊
Those who ridicule the Elders and their ceremonies 🎑, bring bad karma upon themselves for certain.
We enjoy these educational videos!! A'ho
Back when I was a child (I was born in 1955), there was no respect shown in movies or television for Native American traditions. I'm so glad things have changed. Living in the right way and praying to the Creator is nothing to mock! Anyhow, I've been catching your videos and thank you for sharing what you know.
After listening to these wise words, I cannot help but feel society has gone downhill due to a lack of being respectful and a lack of tradition in all cultures.....thankyou 🙏🙏🙏
I agree completely. Most don't recognize that they themselves are being disrespected and rude to by others...for unwittingly having been rude to the first one. The second one and the first one are just uneducated. They're just too ignorant.
Society has lost discipline in general ex: recently my sister died and all the kids were disrespectful as fuck by touching her body and running around knocking shit down at the funeral now i wasn't a genius child but i understood half their age not to do that shit ESPECIALLY at a family gathering
YES! Our society raises individuals.
Its horrible.
My words exactly brother, hopefuly newer generations will change
Wisdom that is desperately Lacking in White Christian Nationalist America!!!
It is almost as if he was providing spiritual warnings for Jan 6th?
- Don't Disrespect Honored Ceremonies
- Don't Block Doorways
- Don't put CARELESS Markings on Body, or Wear Clothing that Mocks SpiritWorld
If only Arrogant Christians had
RESPECT FOR PLANET and its people!!
I was taught all of these things, though there's a caveat to the no touching your sister...it was allowed if the brother/s were comforting us or being loving i.e rocking us, feeding, burping us, or having us snuggled in their lap for storytime. What was absolutely forbidden was any form of aggression boys were not allowed to hit, or bully the girls ever!
I can add to that, that the female should not provoke the male, just because she knows he should not touch her.
@@wisewoman7906 yep, that's dead on; we weren't allowed to provoke the boys either. That said, there was a fair amount of teasing and pranking going on! Nothing harmful or shameful, just passing time and having fun!
thank you for explaining! i was really wondering about that one.
and where did these teachings go?? so many young men abusing their lived ones
Does it mean no hugs or are they just talking about hitting?
He reminds me of our elders here in Greece, in remote villages that they still keep traditions... they pass down the same knowledge (the same way leaning on their walking sticks!)
naí χαχα
chairetismous apo tin elvetia ✌🏼
Traditions are there for a reason. I know too many who sneer at such things and called them "old-fashioned" and such people "dinosaurs". They forget that people in the past were very, very smart. Dinosaurs ruled this planet for millions of years too, now I think about it.
@@jugbywellington1134 lucky enough the modern Greek society is not that far from it's roots. I m in my thirties and sometimes compering my shelf with relatives that live abroad and it feels light years apart. They lack basic life skills...
@@allinab. I've never been to Greece, but I've always wanted to (Portugal is another place I need to visit!). I taught a pair of Greek girls English one summer, and they were both excellent. I want to see the country that produced them.
I have the impression from afar that there are Greeks who still have "one hand in the soil", and that is very healthy. I'm in the UK and many think themselves "advanced" because they have "cool gear" and phones. If only that were true! So many of our youngsters are so utterly helpless, know nothing of our history (Europe's) and are not ashamed of it! When I say nothing, I mean it quite literally. I had a sociology graduate ask me which war Hitler had been in, FGS! She is supposed to know about society and how it is manipulated but didn't know that. There are good ones, of course, but too many of the others.
@@jugbywellington1134 oh, I wish that you have the chance to experience Greece some day. The real one not the cosmic places. Ok they're great to, but I mean the culture, the generosity of people that live in our small villages not really touched by tourism yet, there so REAL that's breathtaking. As for our youth don't let me start....same here they know NOTHING at all, not even speak properly...but I'm still hoping...lol
Complete respect for this beautiful culture and wisdom.
It’s amazing how many cultures are so similar yet completely unique from one another
Numerous cultures advise against whistling at night
"Don't stand in the doorway because you are blocking people who know where they are going"
doesn't make any sense.cos if you do not do with ones body you do with your door..so does not make sense. i often do it.
@@pernambuco-viagoogle9505 It does make sense. Don't block someone else's path in life because you don't know what side of the door you want to be on.
@@ZZH1986
you do not get it
if you do not block with your body you will when you close it.so come down to square !1
after all ,,when someone s come to sell something at your door or complain of something..assuredly you will not allow that person in..and yet you are there at the door talking to them..so makes non sense to me!
unless your try to say the devils..or spirits.which is not their " place to be there..if there is a portal..and we do not see.we are not liable if you block them/..anyways again.makes non sense..cos spirit is made of another substance and can go through anything
@@pernambuco-viagoogle9505 You are thinking literally. The door is a figure of speech... its a path that one takes or does not. But if you are blocking that path by standing in the metaphorical doorway, then other travelers will never know what waits them on the other side. So your indecision rather to enter the door or not enter the door, impeded someone else who knew what they wanted in life.
@@ZZH1986
ok,sorry.thanks i understand.i thought it was about superstitions
I am from Bosnia and I was told by my grandmother never to whistle at night, she said bad energies are attracted by it.
Thank you for this little gems of Navajo people💜
Ja sam uvijek mislila da moja majka tako kaže da mi djeca nesmijemo zviždati jer njima odraslima to ide na živce😅
Ali mi je poslije moja nana objasnila zašto i koji razlog stoji iza toga.
Eto kako neki univerzalni zakon postoji kroz čitav svijet.
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@el ly maybe you would like seeing this then
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Bosnia is such a beautiful country ❤️
@@yespls6260 Thank you 🙏 .
In Aotearoa, some tribes forbade whistling at night as it was likened to calling your own ghost meaning you were predicting or predetermining your own death which relates to the elders talk in the clip but also called the bad energies like others have mentioned as well so it seems we all have that in common which is wonderful! The door thing is quite sacred here as well as it represents life inside & death outside & if you stand in the door you block the natural flow of energy which is similar to the feng shui philosophy. My culture relates so much to the first Nations Americans that it would not be surprising if we crossed paths in Ancient times
I just traveled through Navajo Nation a few weeks ago and discovered some of the most beautiful spirits I've ever encountered.
Nature has some serious chemistry that will leave you with all sorts of spiritual encounters. DMT is a good one for that and you do not need to travel to the southwest to encounter it.
Cool bro. I wish I could do that someday.
@@jimjiminyjaroo300 You should try and experience this at least once. And while you're there, get some fry bread. It's better than dope.
@@minknmunt remember, 98% of native Americans were a shade of brown and copper color of people
@@devonajohnson280 I don't have to remember. I am fully aware. Further adds to my claim that white, conservative men did not settle this land. It was already settled before we got here.
It's astonishing that almost all the traditional things that r being discussed in every culture of the world it's mere language is different and the person is different but the traditions r all connected.
Kinda scary if you think about some of them, as though they're real happenings
We are all connected. It's a shame how lost we've become. We are far too disconnected to the earth, all of the animals, and humanKIND.
@@charlamiller3900 Yup 😌💕
New sub, As a kid I was always drawn to acient beliefs. Now in 2021 I feel ancient beliefs are the only way forward
The marking resonates so deeply. My Native family saw a tattoo on me that was on my arm and they covered it during a ritual. This explains why that happened. Thank you!
When elders speak i listen
Smart.
The doorway teaching is particularly interesting to me because I once had a profound spiritual experience when I became aware that I was standing on a threshold and then took a step forward after realizing that one should not dwell on the boundary. What came next changed my life.
see a vision?
What came next!
What was it?
Mark the Macdonald if you are gifted ,then it's best not to push it.
What happened next was I internalized the clickbait style of communication.
We could truly learn so much from one another... if we would just listen each other. Thank you for sharing your wisdom kind sir!
I've only recently learned about not whistling at night, but my grandmother would warn us about the wompus cat coming out at night.I can't stand when anyone stands in doorways or when people shadow me when I'm busy. We were taught to never disrespect others no matter how different they do things.
People can't really block doorways by just standing there. That one doesn't bother me.
@@vaportrail226 I think it's the idea of freedom of movement being restricted that causes some anxiety with blocked doorways, but that depends on someone's personal experiences and ancestry. The egg we come from first exists in womb of a fetus, during our grandmother's pregnancy with our mother. We inherit all the emotional memories of our ancestors without realizing it. Very interesting.
Reading some of the comments it's incredible how whistling at night is common too so many cultures so far apart
*Not* whistling at night..👍🙌😉
I've heard to never cut your hair at night, when you get a new home, the door faces the East, and to not have any of your personal belongings outside. Ex. Hair ties, clothing, etc.
I'm Navajo btw from Utah.
I regret not asking my parents or grandparents about any of these before they left this world.
If you know your 4 clans, no matter where you go, you will always have family. 😊
Awesome video!! Ahe'hee
Thank you so much, grandfather, for teaching us about diné culture.
A phrase I remember now was really, " It's like whistling in the dark." This means It's dangerous to do something.
I love his language. So beautiful and strong.God bless all the native Americans. Wise elders of all cultures should be listened to. Also very interesting spiritual wisdom they have
Thank you sir. One of my pet peeves is people who stand in doorways talking with no awareness that someone needs to get in or out!!
Same
What gets me is the ones who opens a door for you but stands in the doorway, causing you to have to squeeze by them.
My father - a wise man - told me and my siblings that if we want to be accepted in a new place, whether visiting for a few days or working it is important to drink water available in the place, tap or well or stream whatever form it comes in. Growing up in the islands and later as a health worker who often travels for work into inland remote areas I find a sense of peace and acceptance when I do this.
I'm half Navajo and wasn't taught much about our culture. Your videos are helpful. ☺️
We'll, at least you knew your tribe. I don't recall what tribe my great grandmother was or if I was ever taught it. Her family avoided the round-up of pushing Indians into reservations... That said, she was never counted by any official census and there's no way of ever getting that information.
It took a long time to get clearance for my job in the military because my Grandpa came from no one as if he were Adam himself.
It's not just the blood ,but the way of living following the traditions, you can be full blood but empty if you act dishonestly
@Jon Smyth That’s fascinating! I believe memories can be passed down through DNA, for sure. Perhaps you were experiencing a memory that way. Thank you for sharing your experience!
Just know the indians do believe in a Great Spirit and we know HIM as the HOLY SPIRIT, THE MOST HIGH GOD.
The native american indians know and we know. May the HOLY SPIRIT bring us together, as brethrens, under HIM.
@Teresa Fernandez not ALL southwest tribes, mostly just the pueblos
Great video! It was really interesting to hear him speak about whistling at night. Many Gaelic cultures have similar rules. Particularly when one is traveling near faerie glens. Legend says that they will grow too fond of your music and take you down to the underground fae kingdoms and make you sing for them forever.
Dear Elder, thank you so much for your teachings. The old wisdom teachings are water to my dry soul. Please continue.
Portal...
They respect the other realities.
So advanced...
Yes that was intriguing when he called "here" the "third world" as a person's perception is 3 dimensional!👀
Everyone is more advanced than the mainstream!
@@JohnDoe-qz1ql look up the Navajo emergence story. :)
Mhmmm, its fascinating tbh
So true.
Wisdom is a beautiful thing
Proverbs 9:10
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
I want to express my deepest gratitude for the priceless gift being shared here.
I have always had great respect for all First Nations people around the world.
Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
I"m new here. I am very grateful and thankful for your teachings.
I grew up in New Mexico, my mother made sure we knew about
the First People of the Land and that we should respect them
and learn from their ways. Thank you for giving your time.
💪🏽
Native American here. Yes, I was taught to never whistle at night.
it invites the cryptids
Is the whistling at night taboo because it could call in Bigfoot?
@@moragmacgregor6792 its a spirit
@@levelintent I think you might of commented in the wrong section?... I dont see how you have made a comment that is relevant to anything talked about here...
@@levelintent calm down, because of the first sentence I actually thought you may have commented on the wrong video, these things happen, so (if that was the case) i thought I would inform you. I was wrong
"Whistling at night or when alone in the woods will make you a victim. " ( Veleda ,high priestess of the batavian tribe)
I find this to be good wisdom and I'm glad that I've got to listen to this man.
i used to have a boss who whistled everywhere he walked or was his nephew hated that habit of his but i loved it because i knew where he was and he couldn't slip up on me
Clever! I wish my own boss was that oblivious. He does like to sing, but he also loves to crank up the stereo incredibly loud while he's working.
I had a boss and a few other officials who smelled like they bathed in perfume... I could smell them coming from over a 100 yards out if they were up wind, and I knew who was who lol... im glad I work outside, office buildings can be nauseating.
Oh , it's ok for evil spirits tp whistle for precisely that reason. Just don't do it youself. Cats either nothings more irritating than cats whistling.
@@Charlesbabbage2209 precisely. My boss does this to the employees he relies on. One time I asked him if he was whistling at me like a dog and he told that he was giving me an alert he was coming. I responded "So you're training me like one. Fair enough."🤣
Thank you sir for your service. My dad is a marine too. We lost him 3 years ago. WWII vet.
I love listening to your words. Thank you.
It is the second time in one day I hear not to whistle at night. The other place has been a Dyatlov Pass video, where some Ural mountains native woman tells not to whistle because that will make angry the russian yeti in the forest.
Thank you for your time, wisdom and energy. My mother was of the Iroquois. We were not allowed to acknowledge that heritage. I was her only daughter. My brothers and Dad were proud of the Scandanavia side of our family. As an adult, I am learning as much as I can. ☮️💜🦀🦁🛡️⚔️
I am Chippewa (Turtle Mountian Tribe) & Cree (just found this out and trying to learn more); everyone that could share teachings have passed and I thank you so very much for your knowledge, wisdom, and positivity. I watch these with my kids and we have conversations.
I have drawn all of my tattoos and show my growth as a women, wife, and mother.
Okinawans share the not whistling at night for the same reason. The world is so awesome
Okinawa is home to the Ryukuan people, who are closer genetically to the Ainu than the Yamato Japanese. The Ainu are said to come from Siberia. The Native Americans also.
@@Katya_Lastochka very interesting. Sauce?
Native American are Historically recorded as the Tribe of Gad, from the Nation of Israel. The Bible
My father said it's a Greek tradition to never whistle at night as well. Spirits may hear you.
It's amazing how consistent and specific concepts like this can be across the world.
My people, the Tongans, from the pacific, we also share the tradition of never touching our sister because our sisters are held in high esteem, it's a respect thing. I was told as a kid, that the boys never use the same products, never share a piece of clothing, never go into the room of their sister and our language is to be respectful around them. I've sort of lost that as I've grown up, thought it was too limiting but I didn't see that it was special and a part of my identity
Islanders girls are hella Strong.
@@claudiaclaudia936 hells yeah 😂
I think it's a pretty good rule considering the problem with assault from family member. I love my brother but I've only hugged him once after a death. Never again lol. I'm actually a very touchy feely person though.
I'm not saying no one should hug their siblings... But maybe dial back on letting them bath and sleep together past toddlers lol
To me it's just invitation to see your siblings in a sexual light. No thanks lol
I know a few tongans I should ask them
@@javyassassin13 yeah ask them, if they're second generation like me, we don't really follow it much anymore. But their parents will know it.
I’m from the Appalachian mountains and whistling at night is also a big taboo, sad to call bad luck, evil spirits and even death himself. I had never thought about the reason behind it. Thank you for sharing the teachings of your culture!
"Don't stand in the doorway. Don't block up the hall." - Bob Dylan It sounds as if many traditions are from ancient times. Very interesting. Modern society doesn't recognize many of these rules, especially here in America, because we're so developed and "cultured".
I would say, because we’re so un-cultured.
@@DawnOKane And deliberately ignorant. So many of us are content in our little bubbles and refuse to look outwards. Internet fosters this.
The word " cultured " was in italics for a reason.
When I was small my father took me to the Indian festival in Oklahoma. The tribal dress and dance left a huge impression on me. This was in the 1950s
Did u make your dress? Or did ur mother make it? I want so much to learn to make my own animal skin dress. Much love and pray.
@@sickomoon5289 I didn’t wear one then or now.
I met this gentleman over 30 years ago at a weekend long Native initiation ceremony @ Mecotha in Houston! He admitted to me he believed in Christ's being and reality!
Doorway rules apply to the passing lane as well.
And grocery store aisles.
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 any passageway, really. Hallways, etc.
@@Khangel Yes.
Not in Texas hasn't been introduced here apparently
Amen!
My mother should hear this. Standing in a doorway, or stoping on the path have been something I have always seemed very impolite to me.
Blocking the isle in the store is the same principle.
We get a lot of this in the UK too, people walk out of a shop door and just stand still for a chat. Then they get miffed with others that they have forced to say EXCUSE ME! They tell the people trying to enter or exit that THEY are rude!
I love listening he is very wise and i truly enjoy his teachings.
I was taught the same things as a child as a South African child... standing at the door way was the most important one. Thank you for your teachings ❤️❤️❤️
I grew up around the Navajo and Zuni culture. I have always loved how spirit filled they are and the teachings. THANK YOU for teaching me a few new ones I didn't know.
I am half Navajo and half Peruvian. My parents are now deceased but I have a foot in each door and though I was born and live in Perú I still remember a lot of Navajo teachings. My grandfather was a medicine man in the reservation. Life is so precious and we are really all as one. Respect for all ethnicities.
Standing in a doorway is rude. Lolz Seriously though, that's cool
My Mom use to tell us kids to never whistle at night, this is the first time hearing this elsewhere.
Thank you, Grandfather. Your words are so valuable to us.
Not to Whistle at night seems to be a message from many places around the world. I will remember this and share it with my grandchildren....
Wisdom should be passed on generation to generation. We are witnessing a generation who missed out.
Thank you Our Elder...
I am tohono O'Odham thank you for the teaching of our Native culture I am finding the way back our culture.. every little bit helps me to pass down to our children.... REZPECT ✊🏼🏹🇲🇽⚒️🦅🌵
I like "REZPECT". Never saw it before but it is beautiful!
I used to live way out on AJO rd out of Tucson
Thank you so much for this. It's nice to hear an elder teach.
I never knew that. I'm very grateful that your telling us these stories because I'm learning as I hear you talking about these taboos.
My parents told me never whistle or burn your hair in the fire when finished combing your hair.
There are other things that my parents told me not to do which I never knew now I know and I keep the teachings to my children.
Thank you.
Nízhoni Mr. Wally
I enjoy your lecture and philosophical ways breaking down on tradition teachings or spiritual guidance, so to speak ... stay safe, Sir
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. I am especially touched by the markings. As a Judaic believer and student of Torah I love the your insight to standing in the doorway... This is all so fitting and complimentary to my belief system. I am love gleening from your channel 💜
This video is beautiful & deeply precious. But, I think the most beautiful thing is going through the comments and seeing people from all over not only enjoying this wisdom but sharing similar beliefs. Shows we ALL used to be so much more connected, it's really sad now to see just how far from being like that again we truly are.
Love & prosperity to all who are of love & of life.
Just found this channel today and I already LOVE it. My great grandfather was 1/2 native american but unfortunately the surviving family members do not know what tribe because the older ones felt they had to hide it to fit in with society when they were younger so they do not remember. He died when I was 12 and he was a giant in my eyes. He was one of my hero's. I have missed him severely thoughout my life. Wish I could set and talk with him once more to ask those questions and many more.
Hmm, maybe try approaching several tribes, see if they can help you get started? Find out which "boarding school" any of your relatives might have attended and try to get as many records as you can. Don't give up. Good luck.
My grandmother was pure Navaho and honestly I have always told people who are standing in a doorway ,don't picnic on the on and off ramp
I like that. Don’t think you’re the only one using that space
@@reneelopez902 nice to hear I'm thinking like someone else also thank you
When they first set out the rules and regulations for Hazardous Materials transport by tractor/trailer rigs, all truck stops were supposed to set aside a special area for the most dangerous category. Explosives. The special area was to be called a Safe Haven and noted by signs pointing the way. At the truck stop my mother worked at as a cashier invariably a tourist family would go there to spread out the blanket and have a nice picnic on their journeys.
Love this channel and the small part of Cherokee blood in my veins really perks up with these words
Such logical ways, seems like common sense to me. Just simple respect for one another and yourself. Please keep passing on your knowledge. Thank you
Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
@@jackplace5442 1 Corinthians 15:33
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
@@loosie.goosie you know a man wrote that, don’t you? You know you can trust someone and their ideas, when they’re threatened by the idea of you being exposed to any other source of information.
@@Catlady-mw4en “It is this: that those who were the most zealous to write history, were not solicitous for the discovery of truth: although it was very easy for them always to make such a profession: but their business was to demonstrate that they could write well, and make an impression upon mankind thereby. And in what manner of writing they thought they were able to exceed others, to that did they apply themselves. (6) Some of them betook themselves to the writing of fabulous narrations. Some of them endeavoured to please the cities, or the Kings, by writing in their commendation. Others of them fell to finding faults with transactions, or with the writers of such transactions, and thought to make a great figure by so doing. And indeed these do what is of all things the most contrary to true history. For it is the great character of true history, that all concerned therein both speak and write the same things. While these men by writing differently about the same things, think they shall be believed to write with the greatest regard to truth.”
Flavius Josephus “Of The Antiques of the Jews; Against Apion; Book I”
@@loosie.goosie again, you know a man wrote that, don’t you? How do you know he was not one of the zealous writers who was not “solicitous for the discovery of truth”?
How could anyone “make America great again” without these amazing people? 🥺
Exactly!
Was it ever really Great for these peoples?
True patriots like myself would never exclude them. We are not the party of hate
If you’re referring to Trump, he did more for native Americans than any other president.
America is already great. Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump used that spoofy line. The elections are rigged.
Ahow Mosom, I received the same teachings as a young one. Today, my adult children (daughter, son) do not touch each other, I do not touch my adult son other than to greet him or give him a hug when it’s his birthday or mine or he emotionally needs it. We were taught to use the medicines to keep our humanness intact, and keep from straying. I also do not keep sole company with my son in law, that’s taboo. Red is our most powerful colour, it is healing. Hiy Hiy for these teachings from your Nation.
As Mitch Hedburg said “If I’m alive and flammable, I’m never blocking a fire exit”
I was thinking of this quote too, but I think it was closer to "if you're flammable and have legs".
I just love finding wisdom from teachings, especially native american that explain things I already know and do but don't know why!!!!! Validation is a wonderful healer in today's crazy world.....
In Scotland, on the West Coast (fishing villages), there was a ban on whistling at sea as you were 'whistling up the wind' and enticing danger.
I love this! My Puerto Rican parents used to tell me to never whistle at night because it would call evil spirits. Very interesting that the Navajo have the same superstition. I wonder if my parents passed this down from our Taíno ancestors? 🌟
well, thing is, you should not even call it a"superstition"; because that implies that it's a false belief, and this info he gives is the real thing, it is not a false belief, it is the real thing, a reality......and yes, the Tiano people had a long time connection to the people on the mainland, to the north...and south....Much trade used to go on, back in ancient times..
The Mountains of Puerto Rico are the same range as Appalachia.