The powerful legend of the dream catcher: when the good stays with us

Dream catchers are a very typical decoration in Western society, but do you know their origin? Here we tell you.

Dream catchers are instruments of power in shamanic medicine, whose origin dates back to the American Indian tribes. Its hoop, traditionally made of willow wood, represents the wheel of life, the mesh or network are the dreams, desires and illusions that we weave in the Time of Dreams, in the soul and in the movement that we generate with our activities. everyday. At the center of the network is the void, the creative spirit, the “Great Mystery.”

According to the tradition, Dream catchers help keep good ideas and pleasant dreams with us, as well as protect those who own them. Dream Time is influenced by good and bad energies; The latter are trapped by the mesh and dissipate through the central hole with the first rays of the sun.

Let the spider web catch your good memories and the bad ones pass through the hole in the center and fade away.

The meaning of the word dream catcher

The word “dream Catcher”comes from English dreamcatcher, hence the Spanish translation. Nevertheless, In the language of the Ojibwa, of whom this amulet is typical, it is called asabikeshiinhwhich means spider; although it is also known by the name bawaajige nagwaagan or trap of dreams.

These objects They began to be marketed by the Ojibwa in the 1960s, being criticized by the other tribes for somehow desecrating its wonderful meaning. This makes sense, since they are currently manufactured and sold without attending to the magical and mystical process of energization, thus losing their essence and becoming a mere decoration.

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Because of this, the belief in dream catchers has spread enormously in recent years. However, most of us do not know the beautiful legend they offer us. Let’s see what it consists of.

The legend of the dream catchers

Legend has it that there was a spider woman named Asibikaashi who looked after the people of the earth. The spider woman watched over every creature in our world, bending over the cribs and children’s beds while weaving a fine, delicate and strong web that was capable of trapping all evil between its threads and making it vanish at dawn.

When his people dispersed across North America, It began to be very difficult to take care of all the children, so the mothers and grandmothers had to start weaving networks with magical properties. They trap bad dreams and nightmares, thus protecting their children.

Traditionally, the Ojibwa built dream catchers by tying willow strands around a circular ring of about 9 centimeters or in the shape of a teardrop, resulting in a net similar to a spider web, made in turn with nettle fiber dyed red.

The ancient legend of the Indians Ojibwa about dreamcatchers he talks about what dreams pass through the network filtering and sliding the good dreams through soft feathers until they reach us. Bad dreams, however, are trapped in the fabric and die with the first beam of daylight.

However, for the people lakota of the sioux tribe In North America, dream catchers work differently. That is, nightmares pass through the web while dreams are trapped in the threads and slide through the feathers to the person who is sleeping.

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The bad is blocked and destroyed, the good stays with us

There are people who give this a different meaning, understanding the word dreams as aspirations, desires or desires. Therefore, dream catchers would serve to achieve everything we set out to do and desire.

The truth is that we cannot guarantee that dream catchers will or will not keep away bad dreams, bad energy or bad vibrations, but, nevertheless, it is pacifying to be in contact with Indian culture, due to the magic it gives off.

This culture has filled us and will always fill us with knowledge and ancient traditions that we must fight to keep close as faithfully as possiblebecause in some way we owe them a large part of our wisdom.