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Offering food before the shrine of the Big Birds’ ceremony

Offering food before the shrine of the Big Birds’ ceremony.jpg Professor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great holeProfessor Swing in the PulpitThumbnailsAs the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great hole

“Do the spirits eat the food?” I asked. I had seen my grandfather set food before the two skulls of the Big Birds’ ceremony.

“No,” said my grandfather, “They eat the food’s spirit; for the food has a spirit as have all things. When the gods have eaten of its spirit, we often take back the food to eat ourselves.”