The Earth Element, Yesterday and Today, between the Civilization of the Prairies and Western Culture
Living in strong symbiosis with the natural context in which they were immersed daily, the Native Americans had since time immemorial established links and analogies between what happens in nature and what happens to human beings. According to their vision, each season found its “domicile” in one of the four directions, or cardinal points, with each of which it associated one of the four Elements: the East and Air with Spring, the South with Fire and Summer, the West with Water and Autumn, the North with Earth and Winter.
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