Homo-Mojo and Gay Indians

In studying the Native American culture I have been fascinated! Just fascinated by it. They were far more advanced than we would give them credit for. They’re society was very rich and complex.

For example: We are studying their religious aspects at the moment. It’s amazing! Truly. Women could be Shaman (which were the religious leader and the doctor and all tribes had several of them). Shaman were very important. And there were several ways in which to become one or rather to be put into training.

1) Children with unusual characteristics
-unusually short
-unusually tall
-different colored eyes
-different colored hair
-birth marks
-cross eyed, etc.

2) Strange behavior
-anti-social
-nervousness
-lonely

3) Multiple Births
-twins
-triplets
-quadruplets, etc.
(although some tribes felt the opposite about this and thought it was a bad oman and all but the first child were slaughtered)

4) A calling from the “spirits”
-it was custom for young men (and some women)
to go on a vision quest in hopes of having a dream
sometimes it would tell them to become a shaman

5) Just by deciding to become one
-although you would still have to go through all of
steps and training and be able to get the same results
and win the respect of his tribe members

6) Inheritance
-just as with #5 they had to go through the training and
be able to come up with the same results

7) Gay or Homosexual
-they believed these people held the spirit of a man and a
woman in the same body
-thus making their “magic” more powerful


I don’t know about you but, I’m fascinated…yet mildly disturbed.
[that's my informative post for the day...now everybody has learned something new]