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Navaho Prayer - May it be beautiful

by Navaho (Anonymous)
(19th Century) Timeline

Original Language
Navaho/Dine

Primal/Tribal/Shamanic : American Indian
19th Century

Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,
I have made your sacrifice.
Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,
Jet beautiful, fool's gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful,
Reed pollen, pollen beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.
This day your child I have become, I say.

Watch over me.
Hold your hand before me in protection.
Stand guard for me, speak in defense of me.
As I speak for you, speak for me.
     May it be beautiful before me.
     May it be beautiful behind me.
     May it be beautiful below me.
     May it be beautiful above me.
     May it be beautiful all around me.

     I am restored in beauty.
     I am restored in beauty.
     I am restored in beauty.
     I am restored in beauty.

 

 

-- from The Essential Mystics: Selections from the World's Great Wisdom Traditions, Edited by Andrew Harvey

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