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Spirit woman : the teachings of the shields / Lynn V. Andrews ; illustrations by N. Scott Momaday.

Andrews, Lynn V. (Author). Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781585425761
  • ISBN: 1585425761
  • Physical Description: 203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007.

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Originally published: San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1984.
Subject: Andrews, Lynn V.
Whistling Elk, Agnes.
Andrews, Lynn V.
Whistling Elk, Agnes.
Cree Indians > Religion and mythology.
Indians of North America > Great Plains > Religion and mythology.
Indians of North America > Religion.
Great Plains.

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Spirit Woman : The Teachings of the Shields
Spirit Woman : The Teachings of the Shields
by Andrews, Lynn V.
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Spirit Woman : The Teachings of the Shields


Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path ( Spirit Woman ). Follow her to the Yucatan, where the medicine wheel leads her, and she is faced with the terrifying reality of the butterfly tree ( Jaguar Woman ). Enter the Dreamtime with her, where she emerges in medieval England as Catherine, and encounters the Grandmother, who offers to show Andrews how to make her life one of goodness, power, adventure, and love ( The Woman of Wyrrd ). Not all these stories describe the author's own spiritual experiences. Meet Sin Corazòn, an initiate into the Sisterhood, whose husband abandons her. She nearly succumbs to her inner dark power and unleashes her rage on men and the Sisterhood ( Dark Sister ). Andrews also writes about the elder women of the Sisterhood: their loves, their lives, their losses ( Tree of Dreams ). Andrews shows us how to channel our own spiritual and intellectual energy and balance the need for love with the desire for power ( Love and Power ). She takes the reader on numerous spiritual journeys that inevitably uplift.

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