We understand that aspects of the world are so wonderfully mysterious we aren’t capable of comprehending the whole of it. Even our wisest counselors and most gifted medicine people can only graze the deepest mysteries with fingertip thoughts. And they do not press, because to do so is a god’s privilege. What is sacred, what is wakháŋ, speaks to us, shares what we need to know, and no more. Are we to be trusted with the power of perfect knowledge? Can our minds expand enough to contain star language? Can the voice of water fill us with the fierce pull of its secrets and yet we do not drown? Can
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