WEST - Sacred rocks. I will stand here for humankind. I carry all the history and everlasting life, Sweatlodges and the pouring of water onto the grandfathers and I will regenerate life. Two leggeds will remember The Creator. Life will be given through the braiding and the scent of the sweet grass.
Elders sit in the north.
The disease or problem becomes objectified in a symbolic fashion. It becomes an image, an animal or insect. Shaman's would blow into a person's head to strengthen a weak soul and then fan the disease away with eagle feathers. One does not have to climb mountains, fast for 40 days and nights, and have a near death experience in order to receive spiritual enlightenment or a vision. If a person drinks for 20 years and then quits, it requires tremendous discipline to change this 'near death' experience and embark on a new path.