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These as you can tell are from Bonafide I had two made for my Hiking Buddys and I am very very pleased his work. I had asked him to make me a sheath with a 13 point lighting bot on it. Why a lighting bot with 13 points you ask.
I am Native American from the tribe Siksika or what is known as Black Foot or Black Feet in English. My Grandmother was full-blooded Siksika she moved from Montana to the hills of West God By Virginia. Growing up was a little weird as my mother was Pittsburgh PA. A really didn't care about my fathers families old ways. Then one summer I went to stay with my grandparents when I was 8 and that was the best summer I ever had. Listening to all the old stores from my father’s family about living on the planes hunting and riding for days and never seeing another soul for weeks on end. From then on I started to try to follow the old way of my fathers side of the family myself by going and spending 3 week a year in the wood.
The lighting bolt has a lot of meaning to me in many ways. So I tell you a little why I had a lighting bolt put in my sheath. Lightning comes in two forms female and male. As such, they are not the same and don't represent the same. With two forms, lightning is represented in a lot of things. When used appropriately, you can protect yourself and good things will come of it. But, if you don't know how to use it, you can cause harm or worse. For example, the arrow represents the male lightning or zig zag lightning. When used for hunting, you can kill your game in order to eat to survive, which is good. But when used on someone, you can cause extremely harmful results or even death so they say, which is not good.
Lightning was a symbol of power, and because it could not be predicted, it was also a symbol of the capricious nature of the spirits and the world men lived in. Because lightning often accompanies a rainstorm, lightning also was seen as a symbol of fertility, rain being a crucial element to a successful crop to harvest food for the winter. Some cultures saw lightning as male, as the sun was male, and the earth as female. Either way, zig zag lightning was used and it's strength and power cannot be argued.
And the last reason for the lighting bolt is the love I have for the band the Grateful Dead. The 13-point lighting bolt is in the skull of the Steel Your Face emblem. Which over the years of all the traveling I was doing camping and hiking following a band around the country I started to wonder why I wasn't happy unless I was moving around or in the wood. Then one day it dawned on me that we the Siksika/Black Foot would travel for weeks or even months at a time living under the stars hunting for buffalo living off the land. So guess its in my blood to be on the move. Chuck
I am Native American from the tribe Siksika or what is known as Black Foot or Black Feet in English. My Grandmother was full-blooded Siksika she moved from Montana to the hills of West God By Virginia. Growing up was a little weird as my mother was Pittsburgh PA. A really didn't care about my fathers families old ways. Then one summer I went to stay with my grandparents when I was 8 and that was the best summer I ever had. Listening to all the old stores from my father’s family about living on the planes hunting and riding for days and never seeing another soul for weeks on end. From then on I started to try to follow the old way of my fathers side of the family myself by going and spending 3 week a year in the wood.
The lighting bolt has a lot of meaning to me in many ways. So I tell you a little why I had a lighting bolt put in my sheath. Lightning comes in two forms female and male. As such, they are not the same and don't represent the same. With two forms, lightning is represented in a lot of things. When used appropriately, you can protect yourself and good things will come of it. But, if you don't know how to use it, you can cause harm or worse. For example, the arrow represents the male lightning or zig zag lightning. When used for hunting, you can kill your game in order to eat to survive, which is good. But when used on someone, you can cause extremely harmful results or even death so they say, which is not good.
Lightning was a symbol of power, and because it could not be predicted, it was also a symbol of the capricious nature of the spirits and the world men lived in. Because lightning often accompanies a rainstorm, lightning also was seen as a symbol of fertility, rain being a crucial element to a successful crop to harvest food for the winter. Some cultures saw lightning as male, as the sun was male, and the earth as female. Either way, zig zag lightning was used and it's strength and power cannot be argued.
And the last reason for the lighting bolt is the love I have for the band the Grateful Dead. The 13-point lighting bolt is in the skull of the Steel Your Face emblem. Which over the years of all the traveling I was doing camping and hiking following a band around the country I started to wonder why I wasn't happy unless I was moving around or in the wood. Then one day it dawned on me that we the Siksika/Black Foot would travel for weeks or even months at a time living under the stars hunting for buffalo living off the land. So guess its in my blood to be on the move. Chuck
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