Sacred Power In Black Elk

In Black Elk Speaks, Studying Religion was showed in a lot of instances in his journey in life. Black Elk went through a lot of drama happened when he made the conversion to a Catholic Church. Black Elk stood with the analogy by turning the other cheek. In the following paragraphs I’m going to talk about the ten areas that are shown in Black Elk. Sacred power has many different forms of power being shown. Sacred power can be strong, active, and aggressive, creating and destroying whole universes. Sacred power can be weak, passive, and yielding, yet accomplishing all that is necessary without effort. Sacred power is experienced as something beyond, to some extent, human control, and something especially important to well-being of humans. Religions
In the “Great Vision” Black Elk begins to receive many things from his six grandfathers. Black Elk receives things such as herbs, peace pipe with a spotted eagle on it and tells him that he will make well whatever is sick. This action is known as the therapeutic ritual, produce a change in the state of human health, either to heal the sick or bring sickness to the healthy. Black Elk receives a red stick, sprouted and with birds in its branches, saying that it is the living center of a nation and that Black Elk will save many. This is a revitalization ritual which is to get a culture back and going or a religion seen as dying or in the process of being lost. Black Elk grandfather’s know that a nation will struggle soon and will need to be touched with a savior coming to take them away from that devastation. Black Elk usually has visions that come to him as things are going bad for cultures, this is a reason why Black Elk was respected by many. Black Elk always followed his callings to help others that really need it Black Elk usually follows the five different rituals such as technological which seeks to produce or prevent a change of state in nature so that humans benefit in some way. Therapeutic and anti-therapeutic rituals. Ideological
Religions also motivate people to shape their lives according to a set of religiously set of norms. Black Elk showed this through his moral stories and being a moral hero to most people in different communities/villages. Black Elk rituals centered on ancestor veneration. Most of the followers for Black Elk were virtue ethics, it was their choice to believe in him and trust the ritual that was being performed. Virtue ethics are primary moral guides are not rules, commands, laws, and the like, but people who exhibit moral excellence, or an ideal moral character. Black Elk held rituals that offered help to the hopeless, and the public nature of many of these rituals acknowledges of communal nature of