Ancient Wisdom
What the ancestors knew
Everywhere on earth people have learned to listen to nature. On the Ucayali in the rainforest, on the prairies around the Black Hills, in the highlands of the Maya, in the valleys and by the lakes where we live today.
Their knowledge lives in songs and languages, in festivals and names, in the course of the year. Much of it is buried, some of it lives on to this day.
Here I gather traces of it – with respect for the peoples to whom it belongs, and with joy in what it can reawaken in us.
Celtic TraditionsIn the circle of the year – festivals, tree script, druids and the traces of the Celts in Switzerland.
Celtic DictionaryWords from the sacred grove – Gaulish, Irish, Welsh and Celtic names in Switzerland, each word with its source and attestation.
Lakota TraditionsMitákuye Oyás’iŋ – the sacred, White Buffalo Calf Woman, the seven rites and the Black Hills.
Lakota DictionaryWords of the prairie – a glimpse into the Lakota language, gathered from freely available sources.
Maya TraditionsPeople of maize – the Popol Wuj, the sacred calendar, the fire of the ajq’ij and the Maya today.
K’iche’ DictionaryQatzij – words from the highlands of Guatemala: the sacred, Popol Wuj, the twenty days, numbers and greetings, with sources.
Shipibo TraditionsWhere songs become patterns – kené, ikaros, dieta and the worlds of the Ucayali.
Shipibo DictionaryWords from the Ucayali – a glimpse into the Shipibo language, gathered from freely available sources.