The fate of the American Indians announced that of all people in the world who watch helplessly the destruction of their environment, after the confiscation of their space and resources. The message of the Native Americans is also a source of wisdom, based on the respect for nature and the understanding of "the Spirit which is in everything"

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"We see the hand of the Great Spirit in almost everything: the sun, the moon, the trees, the wind and the mountains; sometimes we approach Him through them. We believe in a Supreme Being, with a faith more stronger than that of many Whites who treated us as pagans ... The Indians living close to nature and to the Master of Nature do not live in darkness. Did you know that trees talk?Voir Parole d'arbre They do, however! They talk to each other and will talk to you if you listen to them.

The problem with the Whites is that they do not listen: they have never listened to the Indians, I guess they will not listen either to other voices of nature. However, the trees taught me a lot ... sometimes about time, about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit." (source)Tatanka Mani ie Walking Buffalo, Stoney Indian, Canada Our Judaeo-Christian ancestors believed that monotheism was a great spiritual progress compared to ancient polytheistic or animist religions. This opinion avoid this unresolved question: what does polytheism really mean?

Or more radically, does absolute monotheism really exist? Thus, in the Jewish religion, which is supposed to be the first monotheistic religion, we can pick out from the outset troubling contradictions: the Father God had a wife, and worse than that, the unique God was several! In Genesis, he is called the Elohim,Go to page they are seven, each one with his wife, it looks like anything but a unique God.Go to Les sept Elohim The Torah has no less than seven ways to name the unique God: the seven Elohim?

In Christianity, another monotheistic religion, there is from the outset a similar hiatus: the unique God exists in three persons.This is a misunderstanding. The Trinity is in us. Go to Eternelle Trinité Make up your mind! Is this 1=7 or 1=3 ? It looks pretty bad. It makes you wonder if monotheism exists, or if all that case, once again, is not based on a major misunderstanding: did we take a band of usurpersGo to page for the One?Go to Le Vivant Did we take Vaugirard for Rome? Some bladders for a lantern? It is possible.

Regarding the different polytheisms, they rely on a complex vision of the deity, most often single, but on the top of a pyramid of sub-gods who make think of polytheism, when in reality, among these believers, we find the same faith in an inner god, at once unique and universal. Thus, the throng of gods, devas, semi-gods and divine heroes of the Hindu pantheon does not hide, for the true believers, the unity of Shiva, creator of everything.

Shiva is unconscious, he dances, and from his dance worlds are born. Another tradition says he ejaculates, and that all the possible universes are contained in his ejaculation. Once Shiva no longer ejaculates, everything will stop. It is a perfect image of the Great Spirit, because it is impersonal. But in practice in India, according to the look that the believer has on Shiva the One, he sees sometimes His destructive capacity, sometimes the original vital breath, that he worships under the names of Kali or Brahma.

While Vishnu, much later, is the demiurge. This is Vishnu who created the first man, Manu, the Hindu Adam.Manu is also Noé hindou

In the apparent polytheism of American Indians, we find the same phenomenon.

If the red man sees the presence of God in every living being, even in every stone,See page every stream and every cloud, it is his way to worship a One so powerful that we can only perceive Him through His creatures, as Shiva for the Hindus. The American Indians, like other early peoples,Go to page have cultivated a close contact, physical, with mother nature. This is from it they drew, and that they still draw their most valuable lessons.

"Oh Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the wind, and whose breath I see in the fogs of the east. Come, Spirit of Good ... Come on now, with the rising sun. Oh light shield ... Fill my eyes! Long have I cried. Long have I sent you the arrows of my prayer. Send your Spirit of Good to reveal me the mysteries you have hidden in every leaf, every stone, every flower, every living creature. Come, Spirit of Good! Oh, Spirit of Good, come!"  (source)The Prayer of the Sioux chief Yellow Lark, 1887

By looking at this wonderful religion, obvious, so simple that "even children can understand it", our intolerant religions, tortuous by dint of intellectualism, seem to them unnecessary complicated. And our desire to convert them sounds stupid to them. "Brother, you say there is only one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is only one religion, why is the White people so divided on this subject? We know that your religion is written in a book.

Why don't you all agree, if you can all read this book? Brother, we do not understand these things. You tell us that your religion was given to your ancestors, and passed down from father to son. We too have a religion that our ancestors have received, and passed down to us, their children. We are making worship this way. It teaches us to be grateful for all the favors we receive, to love one another and to be united.

We do not quarrel about religion because it is a subject that regards every man in front of the Great Spirit." (source)Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Senoca chief

Mitakuye oyasin !In the name of my people May Wakan Tanka the Great Spirit be with you.