Leandra Jacobson 4/19

I recently purchased the Bhagavad Gita for my final paper in religion and film with Dr. Redick. On the first page I found the innate relations between this religion and the earth. In the Upanishads begins with a descriptive account of a horse, the “sacrificial horse.” It describes the beginning as his head, the sunrise and start of the day. His eye is the sun, his breath is the wind, and the sky is his back. “When he urinates, it rains” is a graphic image to read in a holy text. It continues to describe the elements of the earth in relation to the elements of this being. This relation process is commonly found with relating an organization, like a religion, to a certain mechanical device, like a body. We learned about this in organizational communications, making relational devices with different workings of a business to a metaphorical object, like a pack of lions.
John Lame Deer is a Native American author of “Lame Deer: seeker of visions.” I read this in sections for a class, learning about his style of writing and the contexts he had to operate under. John uses this relational tool in explaining the earth to a black kettle, explained though the steam, the earth, the soot, and other attributes. He explains the observations of outside cultures to the detailed appreciation by Indians; inadequate observations, “What do you see here my friend? Just an ordinary old cooking pot, black with soot and full of dents” and, “I’m an Indian. I think about ordinary things like this pot.” You can read this awesome passage here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=LKs6GPmOWWAC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=john+lame+deer+pot&source=bl&ots=IF4BM7YuSK&sig=s6Zr5gTIdt9K-IIFMYg9Bu6Hhrs&hl=en&ei=0nvrScbpMc_Htgf04bDaBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4