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Brian Keenan – Four Quarters of Light -The Clan House of the Tlingit people
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011533
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Brian Keenan – Four Quarters of Light
It is said that the Clan House of the Tlingit people is a representation of the cosmos, and it always faces the water. The fire pit in its centre symbolizes the centre of the universe and is the inter-section to the middle world dominated by man, the under world, the upper world, the sea world and the sky world. I had never been in a Clan House, but I felt I understood it. Looking out on the scene before me I was already in the Clan House, or at least my spirit was, and I too was at a great intersection in my life, like the season, the sunset and the struggling salmon.