QUESTION:

A question from B.I., Tigard, Oregon: "The news recently carried a story about a white buffalo. They are very rare, as I understand. A few years ago I read a story of a medicine man who was a member of a tribe from South Dakota or Nebraska. He went into a trance nearly 200 years ago and traveled to find all of the white buffalo. He reported there were 3 in the thousands of buffalo then roaming the valley. I think the book was named Hanta Ho or something like that. This story was supposed to be a translation of a pictograph of their history which the tribe kept on a special buffalo hide. It was told in a setting of the early 1800′s. The story did not describe the background significance of the white buffalo. I would appreciate it if Awareness could comment on it. I am not a Native American, but I am willing to learn of their religious beliefs. "

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that these entities perceive the white buffalo as being something of a sacred nature, much the way Moby Dick was described in Melville’s book about the white whale. The idea of something white in those days was considered by many cultures as being very significant.

Of course, they did not understand the nature of the albinism and of pigments as being something of a natural kind of fluke. They saw these things as spiritual anomalies that were messages from the Divine, and therefore, a white buffalo was seen as something from God to mankind, and its sacredness was perceived as absolute.

This Awareness indicates that in the Melville story of Moby Dick, the so-called White Whale, with its super-spiritual qualities, became the nemesis for Captain Ahab. There was recently a movie starring Charles Bronson called "The White Buffalo" and this also became a nemesis for him, as he had nightmares about the white buffalo charging him.

This Awareness indicates that these are basically just stories. There is nothing of a supernatural quality about an entity being white, being albino; it is just that the skin pigment has not developed along ordinary lines. The pink-eyed white horse, the common albino, is not caused by some will of God or demonic action of a devil, it is caused by a natural occurrence in nature that affected the pigmentation and created a white horse with pink eyes.

The same goes for the white buffalo. It is not something specifically supernatural. It is unusual in nature, but not necessarily supernatural, unless entities wish to class anything unusual in nature as being supernatural.

This Awareness indicates there have been cases of chickens being born with two heads, and other deformities in the animal kingdom are not unusual, but these do not generally deserve a classification of supernatural.

This Awareness indicates therefore, the white buffalo should simply be seen as something unusual, but not supernatural.