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of the tribe needed healing, -he merely
touched the pole, and this magnetism acted as a stimulant to his own lowered vitality, and he recovered more rapidly.
All children, at puberty, passed thru a
ceremony in which they were put in close
contact with the pole to identify themselves with it, the idea of the tribe,
and the tribe as a unit.
This was an earlier use of the pole.
Later, as degeneration set in with some
tribes, they started using the totem for
other purposes.
Some of the northern and western
tribes discovered, thru their seers, that
these totem poles could be made to transfer their magnetism to other objects.
T h i s brought on a union ceremony. T h e
totem-master would choose six Indians,
trained for the purpose. They piled
throwing-sticks around the pole. Then the
six would start dancing around the
pole, chanting or singing, throwing the
sound against the pole which would act as
a connecting agent to discharge some of
APROPOS
AND
NON SEQ.= By MARIZUS von SCHRAD
PERMANENT ECLIPSE COULD ERASE
MANY BITS OF "GOD'S CREATION"
Solar worship is the oldest form of
worship known. Wise men said they were
the Flameborn Sons of the great Illuminary in the sky.
The two polar regions are frozen wastes
of snow and ice, proving what the whole
world would be without the glorious sun.
Should the sun set to rise no more,
the earth would become barren and devoid
of life. As life goes with the sun, so
life comes from the sun.
This fact demonstrates the sun to be
the Creative Power