The Wind Route

The following is an excerpt taken from a section of the Web page of my respected brother Anderson Mac Arthur Bertolli, who, he in Brazil (me in Spain), is making flutes and helping others know this wonderful instrument. I invite you all to visit his web site at www.tatankaishca.com.

"The Routes of the wind are many and they are everywhere.

Even when we are in a cavern, or we move around, we generate around us soft movements of wind. But the "Route of the Wind" is something deeper and more powerful.

The Wheel of Healing with its other three elements Fire, Water, and Earth has a movement of Wind for each of those elements, and its most powerful point of entrance is the East, also, the entrance of Strength in the Wheel of Healing, is the East , where the sun rises every day. Thus, Wind and East are the gateway of rebirthing, renewed energies, and the place from which a new life and wisdom comes.

The Route of the Wind is a route of healing and renewal .

The air that we breath and that we displace as we move around is sacred for it keeps alive all creatures. It enters in our bodys bringing renewed energies and it carries our words through our Mother earth , carrying the energy of that which was said. It is for this reason that our spoken words are also sacred, and great care must be exercised in what we say.

The Wind when in contact with some elements, produces sounds, sounds which sometimes are soft and relaxing as when it touches the leaves of the trees in a movement that generates vibration of healing.

The Native American Flute is an intrument that for many of the People who use it for healing, materializes the voice of Spirit, bringing harmony and healing both to the one who plays and to him who listens. Its sound brings a feeling of peace and deep relaxation.

The drums of Native People beat to the rithm of the heart of thePower Animal that was being invoked in rituals.

The beat could be to the rithm of the heart of the cobra, of the buffalo, of the moose, of the eagle, of the wolf or of the two footed people among others.

They said that the sound of the whistle made with an eagle bone was the sound that ressembled most to that of the Big Mistery.
That whistle was made with the leg bone of a painted eagle , it was a very strident sound, but one which was fundamental for the practice of the Sun Dance.

But how can we reproduce the sound of the wind passing through tree branches and leaves or through rocky mounds?

How can we sing the sounds of the wind when a storm is approaching?

How can we express the sounds of our spirit if, when we simply want to talk about our feelings, we just don´t find the words?………"

My brother Anderson found an answer to these questions making Native American Flutes!