{"id":1097,"date":"2017-07-25T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/?page_id=1097\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:26:04","slug":"05-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/english\/05-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"05 &#8211; Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SPIRITUALITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between birth and death, life is but an accessory. What matters to us is the survival of the spirit which depends on family members who must look after the spirit of the dead, through the bonds created by the drum.<\/p>\n<p>The use of this instrument requires special respect, demands a seriousness and thereby, bears in its symbolism purity and the centrality of relationships that bind us to other beings, to the world and to spirits. We are reclaiming this organ which is the drum to stay alive; we strike its membrane so that the meanings of our dreams finally become understandable again through the chaos of this era.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The drum as a direct link with the spirit world<\/p>\n<p>The drum is sacred. It is through dreams that the spirits will come see you, to tell you to chant, and then build your drum. One must dream three times about the drum to deserve it. The Elder must play on your drum once you have built it to consecrate it. Then you can make others dance, do incantations to know where are the caribou and the other humans. The drum can give answers to your questions by contacting the spirits: the Elders say that you can watch the drum as we watch TV nowadays, images appear.<\/p>\n<p>Anne-Marie St-Onge, Innu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many are fighting for the repatriation of our ancestors\u2019 bones preserved in museums or universities. We want to bring them back near us, within our communities; an urgent necessity since abandoning them is unthinkable to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIRITUALITY Between birth and death, life is but an accessory. What matters to us is the survival of the spirit which depends on family members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1087,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"temp-single-player.php","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1097\/revisions\/1971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}