Stories have power when they explain the origin of custom, or practice of a people. Here is the story of Corn Mother.
from ©Susun Weed -Wise Woman Center. Notice the attitude that is taught about the deer.€¨
Corn Mother herself.
Native Americans have a pan-en-theistic orientation to the divine, a perspective shared by many contemporary religious liberals, both Christian and non Christian. I think of Marcus Borg, and I think of George Tinker. Different approaches to God in whom we live and move and have our being, both sharing the understanding of the divine as immanent and transcendent, and incarnate in all creatures of this creative cosmos. This orientation is not some new theological idea, dreamed up by desperate theologians in the face of the crisis of theological theism, or the objections of materialism. We have here a prayer that witnesses a panentheist orientation from eleven century China.
