‘ JEHOVAH – THE  GREAT  SPIRIT …’    (John 4: 24  /  Ps. 83: 18   /  Gen. 1: 1   /   Acts 17: 23 – 28   /  Matt. 13:  10–15)     GREAT  SPIRIT – O’ FATHER of Skies   (Ps. 83: 18) GREAT  SPIRIT – Over All Things Alive    (Matt. 22: 32) GREAT  SPIRIT – We Bow Before YOUR  Eyes Like The Sun, The Moon & Stars – YOUR Campfires  (James 1: 17) GREAT  SPIRIT of Wonder ! … So Wise       GREAT  SPIRIT – The Great Creator  (Gen. 1: 1) GREAT  SPIRIT – “GRAND-Father”  & Man’s Maker  (Gen. 1: 27) GREAT  SPIRIT Gave The Wind-Air & Our Breath  (Gen. 2: 7) Riding & Rising Like Eagles Even As We Slept  (Ps. 146: 4)           GREAT  SPIRIT – O’ Great-Giver of Waters   (Gen. 1: 6–10) of Lakes & Streams & Rains That Laughs Out Like Daughters and We Who Canoe & Swim In YOUR Mighty Rivers We Are Grateful To “The Great-Falls-of-Water SENDER”     GREAT  SPIRIT of The Mountains & Plains GREAT  SPIRIT – Even Before We Knew YOUR Name (Acts 17: 23  /  Ps. 83: 18) We Could See YOUR Signs & Track YOUR Trails & Hear YOUR Voice In Thunder & Cloud-Smoke-Signals - & In Some Stories Old Ones Tell …         about the Horse, the Wolf, Elk, Duck … the Bear the Salmon, Buffalo, Cougar, Cricket …  the Hare and All The Creatures (like cousins) All Share Earth As Lodge  – With Tipi(s) Together – Taking Care …   To Hunt & Fish – For Bellies’ & Necessities Sake & To Plant Good Seed Always In Faith & Try To Give Back As Much As We Take & For Health & Harvest – Always Give Thanks: To The  Eternal-SPIRIT  So Great …   (1 Tim. 1: 17)        … and Not Squander or Ruin Land In Disrespect Leaving Our Little-Ones With A World-Wrecked of Empty Corn Husks & Barren Birds’ Nests or Earth Will One Day Rebel & Reject …      All Tribes of Earth Owes A Great-Living Debt To The GREAT SPIRIT For All HIS Gifts We Get So Ignorance Is No Excuse – Nor Lazy Neglect It Makes The GREAT SPIRIT Sad With Regret  (Gen. 6: 6)     And Trees Are Shaking – But Not By Sister Snow The Trees Are Trembling At What Men Don’t Know Because Men Kill Them Faster Than They Can Grow & Ourselves Too As Blood-Brothers On Warpaths Go … ‘Til We Learn What & “Who” Nature Already Knows …   O’ GREAT  SPIRIT – Hearer of Our Prayers & Cries “The Peoples” Have Always Believed In Paradise GREAT  SPIRIT Promised – HE Never Fork-Tongue Lies The GREAT SPIRIT’s Treaty Is Trustworthy – All Times …       So The GREAT  SPIRIT Sent A Mighty Warrior Brave The GREAT  SPIRIT Sent HIS Chief-Son To Save: the Hills, the Valleys, the Forests, the Caves   (Rev. 11: 18) & Our Ancestors In Sacred Burial Ground-Graves …      & the Blackfeet, the Crows, the Cherokee & Apaches the Sioux, the Navaho, Mohicans & Comanche the Cheyenne, the Mohawks, the Hopi, & Shoshone the Seminoles, the Cree, the Mohave & the Pawnee …      Yes, Red Man & White, Black, Yellow, Brown Shades Yes, All Who Understand & Offer Up Praise To The GREAT SPIRIT For All HIS Open-Hand Ways Thru Each Moon-Season & Sun-Walk Days …   O’ GREAT SPIRIT – Many Moons Came & Gone & The Peoples Have Worshiped What They’ve Not Known (Acts 17: 23-31) But YOU Are Spoke Of and Sung In Our Songs … Many Legends Of  YOU Still Live On …   YOUR Medicine & Our Faith-Feathers Is Strong YOUR Power – Like Morning Sun Has Shone The GREAT SPIRIT Is “Spirit-Essence” Not Sticks or Stones Some Say YOU Are Not Real – But They Are Wrong …   This Is Truth – Oh Come & Hear It The Knowledge Has Come – Now Come Near It The Time Is Coming For Us To Inherit …  (Matt. 5: 5   /   Micah 4: 1-4) From JEHOVAH – The True GREAT SPIRIT   O’ GREAT SPIRIT – YOUR Winds of Reason Has Blown & Straight Arrows With Eagle-Sights Have Flown Over The Ground Our Grandfathers Roamed So We Could Be Led The Right Way Home      & The Peoples Have Worshiped  What They’ve Not Known (Acts 17: 23-31) But Our Beliefs To YOU Still Belongs We Are The Hearts – Our Forefathers Have Sown We Are The Crops Our Grandmothers Had Grown   This Is Truth – Oh Come & Hear It The Knowledge Has Come – Now Come Near It The Time Is Coming For Us To Inherit … (Matt. 5: 5   /   Micah 4: 1-4) From JEHOVAH – The True GREAT SPIRIT   O’ GREAT SPIRIT – YOU Are  GREAT MYSTERY Shown We Are Just of Earth – Flesh, Blood & Bones Yet  GREAT SPIRIT Will Gather Us - All  HIS Own & Pick Us Up & Carry Us Like Scattered Pine-Cones …   GREAT SPIRIT – The Whole Land Has Groaned & World-Waters Has Swirled In Bitter Foam & All The Tribes of Mankind Has Moaned but GREAT SPIRIT Pledged “It Won’t Be Prolonged” (Zeph. 1: 14   /   Zeph. 2: 3)   This Is The Truth – Oh Come & Hear It The Knowledge Has Come – Now Come Near It The Time Is Coming For Us To Inherit … (Matt. 5: 5   /   Micah 4: 1-4) From JEHOVAH – The True GREAT SPIRIT   GREAT SPIRIT Gave Good Celebrations of Life Like The Honey-Moon Tipi(s) of Braves & Brides & Those For Pure Ceremonial Cleansing of Tribes We Must Follow The True GREAT SPIRIT’s Guides To Get The GREAT SPIRIT’s Blessings & Smiles   and Offer Thanks Like Bird-Calls-In-Windpipes For Nourishment & Pemmican, Roots & Berries-Ripe & Keep Target Insights of Rain-Bow’s Lights   (Gen. 9: 13) Yes, We Too Are More Than Culture-Stereotypes:   of Long-Black Hair, Headbands & Native-Stripe Trends We Are More Than The Misnomer of ‘ Red Indians ’ Just See The Intricate Art & ‘Moves’ of Our Moccasins & How Hard-Hides Were Cured Into Butter-Soft Buckskins          We Are Decorated In Fringes, Quills, Shells & Beads It Shows Our Pow-Wow-Presence Is As Big As Waters-Deep & You Have Heard The Tom-Toms of Our Drums & Our Feet … It Matches The Tom-Toms of Our Heritage-Heartbeats   Yet, All Men Are But Powder-Paints of Clay-Earth Just Look At The Life-Giving-Power In Its Dirt Its Value’s Greater Than Wampum’s or Minerals’ Worth It Holds The Riddles of Seeds & Souls’ Rebirth …   Yes, We Are of Earth & of Its Cosmic-Hermitage & We’re Touched By The GREAT SPIRIT’s Holy Image It Is A Touch of Flames From Beyond Cloud-Sky Village So It’s A Journey – Peoples Must Inner-Quest-Pilgrimage (Acts 15: 14-20   /   Col. 3: 1)   This Is The Truth – Oh Come & Hear It The Knowledge Has Come – Now Come Near It The Time Is Coming For Us To Inherit … (Matt. 5: 5   /   Micah 4: 1-4) From JEHOVAH – The True GREAT SPIRIT   GREAT  SPIRIT – O’ FATHER of Skies   (Ps. 83: 18) GREAT  SPIRIT – Over All Things Alive    (Matt. 22: 32) We Lay Down Our Tomahawks, Bows & Arrows, Guns & Knives GREAT  SPIRIT – We Bow Before YOUR  Eyes   Like The Sun, The Moon & Stars – YOUR  Campfires  (James 1: 17) GREAT  SPIRIT of Wonder ! … So Wise YOU Have Been Waiting For All Tribes To Realize (Acts 17: 30) We Are “All”  YOURS – Because All Things Are … JAH’s … (1 Chron. 29: 11–13  /  Ps. 83: 18  /  Rom. 14: 8)   JEHOVAH – THE  GREAT  SPIRIT … (John 4: 24)   JEHOVAH  is  THE  GREAT  SPIRIT … (Ps. 83: 18)                               Written & © :  9/28/2011                                                 By:   MoonBee  Rosebud-Canady                       Listed Below, Are Just 8 Native-American Cultures That Refers To This Spiritual Concept:                                  1).  Sioux/Lakota Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit (or Great Mystery) As –   Wakan Tanka:   The Great Spirit, also called Wakan Tanka among the Sioux, the Creator or the Great Maker in English, and Gitchi Manitou in Algonquian, is a conception of a supreme being prevalent among some Native American and First Nations cultures. According to Lakota activist Russell Means a better translation of Wakan Tanka is the Great Mystery. In Native American mythology, Wakan Tanka (great mystery) is the supreme being and creator of the Lakota Sioux. Sometimes called Great Spirit, he is similar to the supreme beings found in the myths of many other North American peoples. According to Lakota myth, before creation Wakan Tanka existed in a great emptiness called Han (darkness).  The Great Spirit or Great Mystery is generally believed to be personal, close to the people, and immanent in the fabric of the material world. Lakota prayers refer to Him as Grandfather; however, not all Nations assign gender, or only one gender, to the Great Mystery.                                                 2).  Hopi Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   The Great Spirit:   Chief Dan Evehema, a spiritual leader of the Hopi Nation, described the Great Spirit as follows: "To the Hopi, the Great Spirit is all powerful. He taught us how to live, to worship, where to go and what food to carry, gave us seeds to plant and harvest. He gave us a set of sacred stone tablets into which he breathed all teachings in order to safeguard his land and life. In these stone tablets were inscribed instructions, prophecies and warnings."                                            3).  Blackfoot Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   OLD MAN:   "Old Man" is how the Great Mystery is "known" by the Blackfoot people. Old Man personally created all things and personally instructed the Blackfoot people on how to attain spiritual wisdom in daily life.      4).  Cherokee Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   Unetlanvhi:   (Creator) (also spelled Unelanvhi, Unetlvnvhi, Unelanahi, etc.) This is the Cherokee word for God. Sometimes Cherokee people today also refer to the Creator as the "Great Spirit," a phrase which was borrowed from other tribes of Oklahoma. Unetlanvhi is considered to be a divine spirit with no human form or attributes and is not normally personified in Cherokee myths. The name is pronounced similar to oo-net-la-nuh-hee. Sometimes another name such as Galvladi'ehi ("Heavenly One") or Ouga ("Ruler," also spelled Ugv or Ugu) is used instead.                                           5).  Cheyenne Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   Maheo:   (also spelled Maheo'o, Maheu, Maiyun, and other ways.) This is the Cheyenne name for the Creator (God.) Literally his name means "Great One," and he is often referred to as Great Medicine or the Great Spirit. Maheo is a divine spirit without human form or attributes and is rarely personified in Cheyenne folklore.                                         6).  Lenape People Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   Ketanëtuwit:   (also spelled Kittanitowet, Ketanitowet, Kitanitowit, and several other ways.) This means "Great Spirit" in the Lenape language, and is the Lenape name for the Creator god. He is sometimes also referred to as Kishelëmukonkw (Kishelamàkänk, Kishelemukonk, Kishelamakank, Kishelamàkânk, Kitselemukong, Gicelemu'kaong, Gicelemuhkaong, Kickerom, etc.), which literally means "Creator," or as Kanshë-Pàhtàmàwas (Kaunzhe Pah-tum-owans, Kanshe Pahtumawas, etc.) which means "great god." Unlike most other Algonquian folklore, Lenape stories often personified the Great Spirit as a human interacting with the Lenapes; other Lenape myths treated Ketanëtuwit as a divine spirit with no human form or attributes. Ketanëtuwit is pronounced similar to keh-tah-nuh-tuh-wit, and Kishelëmukonkw similar to keesh-shay-luh-mook-kawnk, with a slight whistle at the end.                                 7).  Mohican Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   Waunthut Mennitoow:    (also spelled Wauntht Mennitow and other ways): This means "Great Spirit" in the Mohican language, and is the most common name used for the Creator (God.) Waunthut Mennitoow is a divine spirit with no human form or attributes (including gender) and is not personified in Stockbridge/Mohican folklore.                                  8).  Caddo Peoples Belief/Antiquity: Refers To The Great Spirit As:   Caddi Ayo (or Ayo-Caddi-Aymay.)   This means "Sky Chief" or "Chief Above" in the Caddo language, and is the Caddo name for the Creator (God.) Sometimes the Plains Indian term "Great Spirit" is also used. Caddi Ayo is a divine spirit and is not generally personified in Caddo folklore.