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Osage Indian Symbols

Symbols of the Osage Indians
 
Since we moved to the Missouri Ozarks, we've been fascinated to learn about this region's first known inhabitants,  Native Americans known as the Osage. 
 
The Osage believed they were the special people from the stars.  Grandfather Sun had sent them to the Ozark land to care for it and bring order.  This was his favorite land.  So the Star People made sure things stayed in their order and man did not ruin it by waste.  They recognized the place of each thing on earth and were careful to do nothing to change nature's ways.
 
 
Some of their symbols:
 
Bells
 
the earth's center and rotation
 
Black
 
Night
 
Black and Red
 
Life everlasting
 
Blue
 
Earth's carpet of vegetation
 
2 Blue Lines
 
Water
 
Brown
 
Mother Earth
 
Clear Blue or Turquoise
 
Spritual qualities of sky, water and plant life
 
Corn
 
Embodies both the male and female;  the staff of life
 
Feathers
 
Carry prayers to the Creator
 
Hawks
 
Good medicine;  the redtailed named after Grandfather the Sun
 
Quartz
 
Used to receive direction from God
 
Red
 
Day
 
Red Cedar
 
The tree of life
 
Turtle
 
The rays of Grandfather the Sun
 
White
 
The faultless body at Creation
 
Wild Turkeys
 
The wildness of earth and the mystery of creation
 
3 Lines or Serrations
 
The Supreme Law:  respect, harmony, love
 
New Cell New Cell

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.  ~Miller & Jackson

 

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