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Offering food before the shrine of the Big Birds’ ceremony

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Offering food before the shrine of the Big Birds’ ceremony.jpg Big Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wallBig Birds’ ceremonyThumbnailsMy father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wall

“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.”