DREAM TRACKERS
Dream catchers are my passion and joy. In recent years, they have become a very popular decoration and accessory in our homes, especially in our bedrooms. Some people like it purely as a decoration, but many of you suspect that the traps also have their own spiritual significance and that the legends associated with the North American Indians, from which the traps come, are attached to them.
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Traditional and modern production
The Indians made their traps purely from natural materials, the perimeter circle was formed by twigs or wicker. They connected them and woven them with leather straps, plant fibers, or animal tendons. They used everything that nature provided to decorate. From stones, various twigs, through the dried fruits of trees, beads, to the feathers of birds.
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Today we have significantly more options for making a trap. A wooden or metal ring is most often used, but a piece of cardboard can also be braided. The catcher ring (according to the selected type and material) can be braided with leather, wool, cotton and artificial fibers of all kinds. The same goes for the string itself. Beads (wooden, plastic, glass, minerals,…) and various other decorations are used for decoration. Of course, there must be feathers. The catcher can be made even wire.
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Legends about the origin of traps
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The legend of the origin of the dream catcher is not just one, more stories are told. However, they have a common denominator and that is thoughts and dreams.
Probably the most famous legend tells of a mother who had trouble calming her little child during the night. She therefore went to the elder of her tribe for advice and assistance. The old woman made a talisman for a peaceful sleep, in the form of a dream catcher. To this day, women from the Čipevaj tribe make traps and are hung over the beds of newborns and newlyweds.
Another legend comes from the Sioux tribe. Indians have always performed their rituals to communicate with ghosts, or ancestors, they also practiced daydreaming. The catcher was to capture thoughts. Bad thoughts get caught in the net and the good ones go through the hole in the middle.
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In another legend, an old shaman climbed a high mountain and had a vision. In it appeared Iktomi, the teacher of wisdom in the form of a spider. Iktomi took a willow hoop adorned with feathers, horsehair, beads, and sacrificial offerings and woven the net. He told the shaman about the life cycle, childhood, adolescence and old age. He talked about good and evil forces and how they affect our lives. When he touched, he handed the shaman a knitted net that was a perfect circle with a hole in the middle. It was to help him and his people achieve their dreams and visions. Faith and good thoughts remain trapped in a net and bad ones fall through a hole.
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The importance of the dream catcher and its function
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Maybe there would be even more legends, what a tribe, that story. And some may even contradict each other. Nevertheless, the prevailing opinion is that the catcher's network has the task of capturing bad dreams and thoughts, and the center of the catcher is good for that. Let's talk more about it.
The circle of the trap symbolizes the universe, the world, or also the cycle of life, or the connection and balance between the sides of the world and all aspects of life. The center of the trap, which we usually decorate with a stone or bead, is supposed to represent a person's own "I". It also symbolizes anchoring oneself in life and in the outside world. Your "I", yourself, must be protected from negative influences, thoughts and energies. The trap network is used for this. Its symmetrical pattern, which represents order and harmony, is a protection in which bad dreams and thoughts are lost, because chaos becomes entangled in the precisely knitted circle of the catcher and in its knots. The good will pass through and to the soul of man. Feathers are also important, they give the sleeper light dreams and good thoughts, which pass through the net, slide down the feathers into the sleeping soul.
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Location of the trap and its cleaning
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And what about cleaning the catcher? What about those captured negative and bad dreams or thoughts? According to the Indians, it is enough for the sun to fall on the trap, and its bright and radiant energy will burn everything bad.
If you use mineral stones in the trap, it is good to push the trap at full moon into a window where the moon is shining. The trap is cleaned with light and sun rays, while the stones like the moonlight for their cleaning and recharging. Some stones even fade in the sun (when exposed to direct sunlight for a long time) and lose their color.
The catcher can be hung in several places. As for where we sleep, it should hang over the head of the sleeping or in the window of the room. If we want a trap as an amulet to protect the house and its family, it is good to hang it in the place where the whole family meets the most, such as the living room. It can be hung on the wall, for example, above the seat, or freely in the room or window.
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If you are interested in talking about traps, you can be inspired by my work, or in the fb group Korálky Katlas - creative competitions. You will find a lot of creators here, we will all be happy to advise you and help with production. If you do not dare to catch the catcher yourself, I will be happy to make a catcher on request, or you can choose from the already ready ones on my website www.facebook.com/navaraminerals or at www.instragram.com/navaraminerals
resources:
www.cestyksobe.cz , www.psychologiechaosu.cz
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