The preliminary point for the cogency of Ba's claim can be seen in the embracement of the Apache myth from Parabola. In this story, the Creator gave man the facility to do all things. It is from the Creator that all actions are achievable. This can be interpreted to articulate that everything man does is a sacred act. Further, there is the Oglala Sioux belief that our Spirit is given to us from Wakan-Tanka. As such, we are related to everything. Together, these preliminary examples intimate concomitance with Ba's assertion that, “It can be seen that there is little or no room for the profane life, in the modern sense of the word: there is no such thing as the sacred on one side and the profane on the other.” These examples also confirm…show more content… The encounter was in the town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The Tewa knew this place as Warm Sand. As Ortiz ran the sand through his fingers, he was instantaneously cognizant of, “his own grandfather and the other grandfathers who had preceded him here. He had heretofore never journeyed here, but now it was as if he had come home.” This appears indicative that heirophanies are a part of the human experience. However, to attach them significance as a compelling acknowledgement of the sacred would require us to see, as Sioux medicine man Pete Catches states, “...All of nature is in us, all of us is in…show more content… This leads to the final question of whether or not a life of religious tradition makes sense at all. To this question, the answer rests again in an interpretation of Ba's claim that, “Black African man is born a believer.” If you are born into a society, and live enclosed within that society's structure, then the religious tradition makes perfect sense. The problem becomes the disjointing of the individual from their umbilical root in the world both metaphorically and in re. This is the justification of why a prominence is positioned connecting the ground of our birth, the ground of ancestors, and the ground that must be retained. The allegorical counterpart is that, when you drift away from the root of your existence, you lose a part of who you
