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Badger Blood Prophesy
Native Americans revered the fierce badger & believed its lifeblood could tell their future.
The badger is one of the most fierce and courageous beasts in the animal kingdom and Native Americans revered the animal. They had seen badgers challenge mountain lions, wolves, and even grizzly bears and hold their ground. Many tribes wore its long claws as necklaces or wore its striking striped head and pelt as a headdress. Many used its spiky hair as magnificent roaches. Zuni shaman-fashioned stone badger fetishes to assist them in digging roots and herbs for healing. And the Navajo created badger kachina dolls to channel their fierceness and courage.
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When its blood has pooled and thickened into a ruby reflection, the warrior looks deep into the pool, as if looking into the badger’s soul and seeing his own. If he sees in the reflection his young face, he will die young. And he prays his death will be a good death and brave. If he sees in the reflection his face sun-beaten and creased with wrinkled, his hair gray, he will know that he will see many summers, he will survive many battles, will have children and maybe even grandchildren. Either way, he will thank the spirits for his future and he will thank the badger, too, and find strength in the courage he has left the young warrior.
To witness the amazing courage of the badger, see this video of a badger standing his ground against a grizzly bear! https://youtu.be/3RqJFza3sbE
For more information about the Native American badger blood ritual, see this article by Lakota Sioux poet, Lois Red Elk of the Mountain Journal:
https://mountainjournal.org/a-montana-indigenous-poet-writes-of-badger-as-omen
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