11/19/2022
👉🏻Out of pure love and respect for native cultures, we want to share information and background about dream catchers and their sentimental meaning!☺️
Also a brief explanation on why we chose to start hand making them ourselves to sell them apart of our Home Decor!👈🏻
Our family values traditions and practices of many religions and cultures. Anything that resinates with our souls to help us reach our higher beings and dreams we bring into our daily lives, morals and self growth. Such things as blowing cinnamon into our doorways in the beginning of each month for prosperity, to giving back to Mother Nature by nurturing her animals, lands and breath in all the seasons she blesses us with🌬Praying to Demeter for sweet green grass in the pastures🙏🏻 To asking the one God for guidance and divine love♥️ We look up to the moon and sun to cleanse and free us of negative energy, just enough to keep our balance and inner peace☯️ and asking the great motherly protector Asibikaashi also known as The Spider Woman🕸 to allow us to honor Ojibwe Tribe and native culture by making these dream catchers and spreading them everywhere for those who seek peaceful dreams and protection!
~The Origin of the Dream Catcher
Found in the Ojibwa Tribe~
Dream catchers are attributed to the Ojibwa Tribe based on a long tradition of oral stories and legends passed on through the generations. The Ojibwa tribe has ancient stories relating the tales of the use of these dream catchers with their spider like web to capture the nightmares of sleeping children. These originally were quite small and made of bent wood, string or leather attached to a feather. The pattern used for the webbing was similar to the snowshoes made by the tribe.
The dream catcher was hung by a sleeping child to prevent nightmares. The legend was that the bad dreams would be caught in the dream catcher’s web. The ancient story told by the Objibwa tells of Asibikaashi who along with Wanabozhoo brought the sun to the people. Asibikaashi still takes care of her people today. However since the Ojibwa nation has spread to the four corners of North America, it is difficult to make this journey. So mothers, sisters, and grandmothers took it upon themselves to make the weaving webs.The shape is of a circle as that is how the sun travels each day. The web allows for the bad dreams to be caught and the open circle in the center permits the good thoughts to come through. It is traditional to put a feather in the center as it means breath or air which is essential for life. The type of feather generally used signifies different properties. The feather of an owl (a woman’s feather) is a symbol of wisdom and an eagle feather (a man’s feather) represents courage!
Today the use of feathers of these birds is forbidden by the government. So sometimes four gems can be used to signify the four directions. Each of the four directions holds the promise of attributes important to the Native American. From the East comes the eagle with gifts of the color yellow, spiritual, Father Sky, dreams, and courage.
From the West come the gifts of the turtle and bear, protection, the color black, and fire.
Next, from the South come the gifts of the cougar,the color red, summer, Mother Earth, and nourishment.
And finally, from the North come the gifts of the polar bear, the color white, winter, water, Grandmother Moon, and wisdom.
For thousands of years, the Native Americans used the dream catcher to provide only dreams of good for their children. The original dream catcher had a very tiny hole in the center and all dreams were caught in the web. Dreams have great powers said the Old Ones and the web entangles the bad so that they do not reach the sleeper and disturbed sleep and good dreams float through the center down the trail of beads into the mind of the sleeper. The bad dreams entangled in the web would perish in the light of the sun at daybreak!🌄
