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:blink: piece of elastic off a smelly :ph34r: cant get it off
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Nothing (well actually I have one of those kiddy-view extreme convex mirrors below the normal rear-view mirror)
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The Native American Indians believe that the night air is filled with dreams both good and bad. The dreamcatcher when hung over or near your bed swinging freely in the air catches the dreams as they flow by. The good dreams know how to pass through the dream catcher, slipping through the outer holes and slide down the soft feathers so gently that many times the sleeper does not know that he/she is dreaming. The bad dreams not knowing the way get tangled in the dreamcatcher and perish with the first light of the new day.

 

 

Long ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision.

 

In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of a spider.

 

Iktomi spoke to him in a sacred language that only the spiritual leaders of the Lakota could understand.

 

As he spoke Iktomi, the spider, took the elder's willow hoop which had feathers, horse hair, beads and offerings on it and began to spin a web.

 

He spoke to the elder about the cycles of life ... and how we begin our lives as infants and we move on to childhood, and then to adulthood. Finally, we go to old age where we must be taken care of as infants, completing the cycle.

 

"But," Iktomi said as he continued to spin his web, "in each time of life there are many forces -- some good and some bad. If you listen to the good forces, they will steer you in the right direction. But if you listen to the bad forces, they will hurt you and steer you in the wrong direction."

 

He continued, "There are many forces and different directions that can help or interfere with the harmony of nature, and also with the great spirit and-all of his wonderful teachings."

 

All the while the spider spoke, he continued to weave his web starting from the outside and working toward the center.

 

When Iktomi finished speaking, he gave the Lakota elder the web and said..."See, the web is a perfect circle but there is a hole in the center of the circle."

 

He said, "Use the web to help yourself and your people to reach your goals and make good use of your people's ideas, dreams and visions.

 

"If you believe in the great spirit, the web will catch your good ideas -- and the bad ones will go through the hole."

 

The Lakota elder passed on his vision to his people and now the Sioux Indians use the dream catcher as the web of their life.

 

It is hung above their beds or in their home to sift their dreams and visions.

 

The good in their dreams are captured in the web of life and carried with them...but the evil in their dreams escapes through the hole in the center of the web and are no longer a part of them.

 

But beware! Cheap imitations do not work, you have to have a real one made by a real indian....

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But beware! Cheap imitations do not work, you have to have a real one made by a real indian....

I suppose the same could be said of a vindaloo!! :D Andy.

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we also have a dream catcher, we got ours from a spanish leather shop in javea, i remember it was bloody hot that day.

not very native indian i know but it's really well made and looks nice hanging from the mirror. :o

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i got a bracelet of scotchlocks that are crimped onto a bit of wire.

 

they are a reminder of how badly some people do wiring!!!

(they were removed from the towbar wiring loom that someone had fitted!)

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Is it a proper one sharon tdi?or one of these manufactured ones?i love dream catchers.

Yes, it was bought from a center for Indian history on the American side of Niagra falls (the small falls, not every thing is bigger in the states)

 

TAM

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Hiya

 

Got nothing hanging from the bottom of my mirror but i do have a Galaxy bolted to the top of it. :P :) :)

 

~adema~

Wow, that must be some mirror to have a whole Galaxy bolted to the top of it !!! :P

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