Within indigenous cultures, 13 is often seen as a powerful concept or fulfillment of a cycle as related to completion of 13 lunar cycles of the natural year.
In 2004, a group of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers were gathered together to fulfill a prophecy and usher in a new generation of healing. From 3 different continents, different countries and completely different cultures and traditions these 13 Grandmothers were brought together to bring hope and healing for the world and our future.
13 Grandmothers: Blessings For The World
In this particular case, the number 13 is used intentionally to fulfill a prophecy for healing for the planet. This congregation of 13 Indigenous Grandmother signals a important re-generation of healing.In October 2004, 13 grandmothers from all over the world, were brought together with one specific purpose - to pray for the world, all of its creatures and our future - together.
Mostly compromised of ordinary women who have spent their lives dedicated to learning and practicing their native traditions of prayer and healing, this group of grandmothers come as a fulfillment of prophecy from many different indigenous traditions.
These chosen elder women are ordinary in the sense that they have no unusual powers or anything that elevates them above others in the usual Western sense. I may be wrong, but I don't believe any of them are medicine women, in a traditional indigenous sense, or extraordinary healers or leaders.
It's important to realize that these women are ordinary people, just like you and I. If these were medicine women or extraordinary healers, we might be able to see them as somehow different than ourselves. To create more separation in our minds. But these women were brought to bring unification and healing for the planet, so it was by specific design that they be common people.
So rather than by some external power, it is by their commitment, the power of their intention and prayer, that holds them as the exceptional women that will change the future.
This is important to understand because each of us has something to contribute, each of us has a responsibility - to contribute and participate with all of creation. All My Relations
And this is part of the message of the 13 Grandmothers.
13 Indigenous Grandmothers - Viewing One Life At A Time
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Aggie Pilgrim
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Named a living legend by her tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz in Oregon and a founding member of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers , Aggie Baker Pilgrim has been a energetic voice for the land and environment for over two decades, restoring...
Grandmothers Counsel the World
Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
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"Grandmother Spider is said to have the power to weave up the broken web of connection which sustains the world. This book was surely written in her spirit. Grandmothers Counsel the World is a fascinating collection of Grandmother stories and Grandmother wisdom told as if the future matters."-Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings
What Is The Significance of the Number 13?
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Significance of 13
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1313 Mockingbird Lane. Friday the 13th and 13 black cats . Baaaad omens. It's 2009 and there remains an air of mystery surrounding the number 13, carried from dark times that still causes most of us to avoid anything associated with the number 13. Hi...
"Between Me and You: Grandma; A Few Things I've Been Meaning To Ask" - Memory Journal for Grandmothers
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The Grandmother Book: A Book About You for Your Grandchild
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The Grandmothers Statement of Alliance
"We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the contamination of our air, waters and soil, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the threat of nuclear weapons and waste, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics which threaten the health of the Earth's peoples, the exploitation of indigenous medicines, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking and healing are vitally needed today.
We come together to nurture, educate and train our children. We come together to uphold the practice of our ceremonies and affirm the right to use our plant medicines free of legal restriction.
We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself.
We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
We join with all those who honor the Creator, and to all who work and pray for our children, for world peace, and for the healing of our Mother Earth.
For all our relations.
Grandmother's Council Website
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
-Phyllis Theroux
Grandmothers make a difference
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- DanJohnson51
- chillin at home. going to my grandmothers later with the family to watch old family videos
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- MaalikFiasco
- Don't you just love comin home to ur grandmothers sunday meal?
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- Choliitha_X
- Daniela don't be sad your grandmothers is better, she cres you from the heaven, she would be so proud of you :)
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- WJandVB
- over the river & throug the woods to grandmothers house we go!
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- AshleyWoods2011
- @andjodew nope...im at my grandmothers for a bit
"When we can heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers and our children. When we heal ourselves, we heal Mother Earth."
- Rita Pitka Blumenstein
Yup'ik Great Grandmother
As a unified vehicle for change, The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers have identified these as the projects that they will focus on
- A Movie: For the Next 7 Generations:the Grandmothers Speak
- Letter to the Vatican Requesting Revocation of Papal Edicts Regarding Indigenous Peoples
- Council Gatherings - Public Forum, Education, and Outreach
- Tibetan Children's Village: Grandmothers sponsored five children for ten years
- Ex- Political Prisoners Project of Tibet (The Gu Chu Sum Organization )
- Slim Buttes Agricultural Development 300 Organic Gardens on the Pine Ridge Reservation
- Santa Casa de Saude, Healing Center in Mapia, Brazil
- Institute of Natural and Traditional Medicine Seed Bank in Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico
- Mazatec Women's Weaving Cooperative in Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico
- Lodging for Bwiti Women Initiates, Oyenano Temple, Libreville
Grandparents are able to offer wisdom without condemning, guidance without demanding, and acceptance with compassion. No matter what country, whether their aged hands worked hard in the fields or in the field of high finance, the world has much to gain from pulling up a chair and listening closely to these seasoned voices.
Grandmother's Lullabies from around the world
www.forthenext7generations.com 13 Indigenous women elders, shamans and medicine women from around the world, have been called together to share their sacred wisdom and practices. Can they light the way for us to a peaceful and sustainable planet? Trailer for a documentary feature film in progress.
Do you have a great relationship with your grandparents?
Share a memory.
Do you remember a moment with your Grandparents?
"What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani
Did your Grandfather teach you how to fish? To carve? Or draw? Do you remember Grandpa taking you for a drive for ice cream?
Is your Grandma's apple pie the standard by which all other apple pies are measured? And the stand by which they also fail, no matter how good they are - it's just not like Grandma's?
Or was Grandma's cooking embarrassingly awful, but she was so sweet all the grandkids choked it down and told her was great, only to have her serve up more?
We'd all love to hear your stories. What imprint did your grandparents leave on your life?
Lori_Lee-Ray wrote...
Absolutely spectacular lense! Grandmothers have better advice than moms even! www,squidoo.com/thatwasfunny is my lense dedicated to my grandmother who passed away not too long ago. She spent her last year with me, after she was kidnapped out of the nursing home... and I do mean kidnapped literally! lol I add to it each time a memory comes around. My other grandmother is still alive and kicking, she'll be 92 this year. Thank you for making this lense!! I've lensrolled it to mine.
Posted May 21, 2009
KarateKatGraphics wrote...
LOL, I'm not a Rudi Giuliani fan, but the quote above is nice. Both of my grandmothers gave so much to their grandkids when they were alive, from baking lessons and songs in Slovak (on the paternal side) to sleepovers (on the maternal side) with movies and our favorite lime jello w/fruit cocktail. ;) So many g-parents nowadays are even having to raise their grandkids--gotta give them major props. Very nice lens, 5*****
Posted January 31, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
Grandmothers can be pretty special people! Great lens.
Brenda
Posted January 28, 2009
In Honor of All Grandmothers: Donate $1 to Room To Read
Do remember your grandmother's voice singing in the kitchen? Or her hands holding yours as you crossed the street? Maybe you were lucky enough that Grandma read to you as she held you in her lap.In honor of all of our Grandmothers and their influence in the world, donate $1 to Room to Read.
This program serves children of Nepal and Vietnam, providing children there by providing them with books, language materials and libraries.
One of the 13 Indigenous Grandmother's, Aama Bombo, is from a village in Nepal. Her father was a great traditional healer. As is the respected tradition, as a young girl Aama Bombo showed signs of that she would become a great healer herself one day but was not allowed to become a healer until her father died. Today she is a Maya Lama and a highly respected healer of both the poor and royal families.
In her honor and in honor of all the grandmothers of the world, we'd like to help raise money for the Room to Read program. You never know when you might be putting ideas in the mind of a future world leader.
Donate a $1 - it makes a difference.
Room to Read partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and estab
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Your voice is important, please share your feedback.
susannaduffy wrote...
A wonderful lens, blessed by an angel today (/my-angel-blessings)
Posted June 11, 2009
Gina Boltz wrote
Please allow me to share the Internet Youth Forum for The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. It can be linked to from the Native Village Home Page:
http://www.nativevillage.org
Blessings!
Gina Boltz
Director, Native Village Publications
http://www.nativevillage.org
Director, Youth Forum for International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
http://www.nativevillage.org
Secretary, Link Center Foundation
http://linkcenterfoundation.org
Posted February 18, 2009
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Very inspiring lens. There is hope for the world.
Lizzy
Posted February 01, 2009
Graceonline wrote...
P.S. I started a discussion about this lens in the Squidu Forum under the topic "Lenses we like." The title of the post is "One of the most hope-inspiring lenses I've ever seen," and you can jump to it here.
Posted January 27, 2009
Graceonline wrote...
[in reply to ] I, too, take care of my infant granddaughter to give her one-on-one, in-home care. Leaving my job at the age of sixty, with only a few thousand dollars saved toward retirement was pretty scary, but the rewards of caring for this amazing child will be with me the rest of my life. I wouldn't give them up for the biggest bank account in the world.
Posted January 27, 2009
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