Lyla June - Mamwlad Official Video
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2018
- This Beltane, we are forgiving the persecution of an estimated 6-9 million women as "witches" in Europe with the release of our new music video, "Mamwlad."
Cinematography:
Jay Jacoby
Craig Whyte
Michael Clark
Editor:
Michael Clark
Wardrobe Supervisor:
Priscilla Peña
Composer:
Lyla June
As a biracial woman (Native American/European), I thought it would be good to take the time to write this song to honor all of my grandmothers (and grandfathers) who were burned alive, drowned alive, raped, beaten and tortured in torture chambers for being so called "witches" and "warlocks" (www.nfb.ca/film/burning_times/).
I know that these people were not evil, but rather were the carriers of Indigenous European knowledge that was demonized by colonizing forces, just as my Native American ancestors were demonized and persecuted. This is a wound that we as Europeans have yet to heal face, forgive, and heal from. If we can find the courage to heal from this, I believe we could break many cycles and resolve much untended intergenerational trauma, to help not only European folk, but all those who are affected by our unresolved trauma.
Our elders have taught us that any assault on the women of a society is also an assault on the men who love them. Imagine having your wife, or daughter burned alive and being restrained from helping her. This is what so many of our grandfathers went through and it drove them purely mad. We must too pray for the soul of the masculine that was tricked into thinking it was insufficient, tricked into thinking it "failed to protect." These are all psychological tactics to make us hate ourselves across the board and have damaged us for too many generations. This is healed through self-love and the forgiveness of this unimaginable cruelty of others. It is time to throw off these chains and throw off these lies and affirm our sacredness and worth as men and women in the eyes of Creator.
I named this song Mamwlad (Mah-Mu-Lahd), which means "Motherland" in the Welsh language. In the 1920s, if you were caught speaking Cymraeg (Welsh) in school you would get a big block of wood tied around your neck with the letters W.N. there inscribed. This stood for "Welsh Not," and you could only get the wood off your neck if you caught another child speaking welsh (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not). The prohibition of this Indigenous European language is one example of many of how our ancestral, earth-based culture was suppressed and destroyed much like my Native American ancestral culture was.
It is time for all of us to return to our indigenous selves and this includes Europeans. It is time for us to look behind the thin wall of time that dominates our understanding of Europe--the time of King Edward I who ordered the massacred of 100 harpists and bards of the Celtic Nations, the time of Napoleon, the time of Hitler--and remember who we truly are, beneath all the trauma and rubble. It is time to reach into the time of Indigenous European culture evidenced by a figurine of a woman, symbolizing the sacred earth and the sacredness of women, found in German soil in 2009, whose radiocarbon dating indicated that it was at least 40,000 years old. It is time to remember that this is who we really are.
And, it is time to forgive. For when we do not forgive, we become the oppressor, as we perpetuate the violence that we experienced on other peoples the world over. We have the power to help this end immediately for the sake of generations of human beings of all ethnicities worldwide. In sum, if we find the courage to face the truth and love through it, the way all great leaders have done throughout time, we can heal 7 generations forward and 7 generations backward. We have this power to transmute that darkness into hope and become the humble examples of healing that we as European descent folks are capable of being.
We must also recognize that witch burning still occurs today in many countries around the world (www.reuters.com/article/us-re.... I hope we can unite to heal the past, the future and the present day to say no woman should ever be killed because of her spiritual practice. Please join me in this musical, cinematic journey, filmed in the ancient sacred homelands of Gaelic, Celtic and Welsh civilizations, blessed by wild ponies, and connected to local Indigenous women of contemporary time.
Lyla June is a living treasure and wonderful human being
I am Irish, French, German, Welsh and Native American. I feel all these wars in my DNA. I believe I can transmute the multi-generational traumas through my bloodlines. We are the ones we've been waiting for! Thank you for this music.
Beautiful.. words...are so powerful and some use them so recklessly but some do not. Thank you for your words. They touch deep within my soul.
I understand that I’m also half German half Colombian
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Chances keep turning, dont stop rolling, the fire is on.
Wow, I just now discovered Lyla June, and I feel compelled to say that this is some of the most moving, inspirational, and beautiful music I've ever discovered. I feel like I've stumbled upon gold, or even better, true medicine. Thank you so much 🙏💓☮️🎵🌏😇
I am so happy to have found native American music that I can listen to!!! thanks!!
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Same here !!! She is wonderful.
As a Welsh woman who's recently starting to really look into ancestral healing, connection with the earth etc, I felt very moved to see you using a Welsh word and referencing the Welsh Not
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@fkujakedmyname Fós ardú againn
Perfectly said
Don't hear much about Welsh but I have Welsh in my background
I'm canadian with Irish,Scott,Welsh,English and French native in my background
All I can say is that I've been binge watching Lyla June vids the last 24 hrs and it is confirmation to me of the medicine our Creator sends to me and all those on walking the path of healing. This song hit me in the chest. We need more recognition of Eurpean atrocities and the need to heal from them because it connects the reasons and the root causes and allows understanding of human suffering on a deeper level. We know what was done to our people here on this land. And that cannot and will not be discounted. But what about going further back? Connecting the pain. I am meztizo. The entire human spirit and lineage needs healing. Thank you Lyla June.
You are a prophet my dear and you are " The Seventh Generation!
Mitakuye Oyasin!
You are an amazing artist. The spirit, the wisdom and feminine energy...
Thank you, so beautiful! And thank you for honoring and acknowleding our European ancestors! One of my great great great... grandmothers was burned as a witch in the northern part of of Sweden (where I live) in the 18th century. Thank you for connecting me with her, and feeling pride of my ancestry. And remember that we were indigenous too. We are. It is so close, we just need to reach down and touch the Earth. Thank you! 💗
Wow! Touch the earth!💖💖
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@@sattvadevi you know it💖💖
I cried reading this. Thank you for sharing.
This deeply touches my Being as a mixed person of both Diné American Indigenous and British-isle heritage who reclaims the word witch and who practices a mixture of those old medicines and healing. I do my best every day to be someone who holds the Earth in my hands. Thank you for your truth and music.
This Native Angel of Wisdom, truth and love as I've given her this nickname. Great work I pray for you every day and follow your message. You changed this Native man into a warrior and much more wadan thank you
thank you so much for this Lyla June. These were my ancestors and I am proud of them. I can see all the Grannies standing behind me.
thank you Lyla June, for adding your voice to address this huge collective trauma. the present estimate of the scale of this persecution is not 6-9 million but 40.000 to 100.000 people, of which approximately 80% women. the estimate of 6-9 million was based on the most heavily affected regions, transposed to all of Europe. this more realistic figure doesn't in any way make the trauma less, nor the urgency of addressing it. it remains a terribly important chapter of the story of the uprooting of the indigenous culture of Europe. being correct in the underlying scientific base only strengthens that story. keep strong in the struggle, great appreciation for what you do. love & rage.
Thank you, Lyla June. I'm so grateful for your voice, your music, your heart. Your words and song help me to follow the thread back through all the wounding that has happened, continues to happen to a beginning time when we all knew Earth and celebrated our connection with the land, one another, our more-than-human family.
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I'm a big fan of Lyla June, and the lyrics to this song were so important and sacred. I'm sharing this.❤❤❤
This is my playlist all month, I am feeling small in the universe and I am feeling healing..
Lyla June... you speak for all the generations living today, and bring forth the messages of the ancestors past... thankyou🎶💕
Thank you for bringing attention to this important topic. Ancestral Healing is so important and necessary, yet often overlooked. Yet we can't heal, or be truly whole, unless we do this work. Keep singing!
So greatfull for these 4 years, man. this song has been holding me down so deep.
From the Choctaw Nation of the USA, Peace out to all the Pagans across Europe. Pagan Indigenous People across the world, keep your culture alive and de-colonize your minds. ✊🏽
I'm so blessed to have stumbled on your music today. Thank you sister. I've been in tears all morning. You're such a beautiful soul and may all nations hear your call.
Healing ancient wounds. Coming full circle. Realizing peace. Beautiful sister!
As a person of Celtic ancestry living gratefully in Canada this really was so beautiful and sad in the best way to hear. We are healing and connecting as never before, heres to the world we are creating!
I love your songs Lyla!!!!!
Thank you beautiful sister in spirit!!
Wow. Currently enroute to visit these homelands for the first time
In my adult life and have been hearing the call of my ancestors so strongly. Sitting in the airport crying listening to this. Even more reason to return. Im a South African Welsh German Canadian this hits so many parts of my blood achemically
You go Lyla June. You are magic. Yes, we are all from healers. Let the unforgetting commence.
Thank you Lyla, your music and words have been so helpful in my life. They keep me strong and supported in my path to lead a life guided by the land. I am a lost person born in Belgium but somehow living on land in the Pacific Northwest and my roots grow slowly. Thank you for music which is healing! Hoping my words can give you knowledge that you are making a difference in my life!
Lyla June. I love you my uwoduhi igido. You speak truth. ❤❤❤
What a blessing to see you perform this live at Compassion Camp by Souldust over the weekend! Thank you for sharing your beautiful gifts with the world. Love to you, dear Sister!
I love that you sing the name of my country in our language. Thank you for this medicine song. Blessings on your work. 💗🙏🪶
Lyla I thank the stars that I came across you. Thank you.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Absolutely Love the Tree planting at the end ,Sacred Teachings 💗🌱🌲🌳💫🌰🌎✌💚🕯☝️❤⚖
Thank you, Lyla. Just what I needed at this moment. Blessings to the family.
THANK YOU LYLA !! We have to HEAL from all of this ****
My daughter just saw you last night singing in Asheville NC. You are awesome. Your going to spread medicine to help the world too. You have a special destiny :)
Blessed Be 🌿💖
I am so moved to tears over this and joy to see the healing thank you beautiful soul sister for singing and dancing the healing the divine feminine will rise and be respected, protected, as it always will be. ❤🙏❤
Thank you for crossing the pond with this healing music.
Thank you! Much Love and Many Blessings Upon You Dear One!!
Thank you for bringing forth a flow of tears while I made my morning coffee. To hear this.....I can't even find the words to thank you . I am pouring out blessings towards you.
This is on this list of things I never knew I needed & my soul thanks your soul.
Thank you Lyla💕
W☀️W !!!
W☀️W !!!
W☀️W !!!
You are such a beautiful soul and so very talented in your writings and songs . Thank you 🙏 for sharing your heart and valuable, crucial knowledge with us !!! You're healing the world and for that I am eternally grateful sister 🍃💚🍃
~ namaste ~
Thankyou Sacred Sister Lyla we are on the same page and so of the same mind I guess.
As you are Scots Di Ne I thought you may like to know the highest hill over my town apart from the skyridges of course is "Lyle Hill" it reminds me of you and your Mother.
Always a good thing Sacred Sister...with deep respect and honour for you both.
Thank you, Lyla June. You have a beautiful soul. And the work you are doing is very, very important!
You are a soulful breath of fresh air 💜
Thanks for Sharing Life!
Thank You Beautiful..We Have Awakened And We Are Rising!! BLESSED BE 🙌
This is an amazing song🥰 For I do honor my ancestors, my great grandmother was burnt in Salem Massachusetts. Today I teach my children and grandchildren the way it used to be and how to honor mother earth today. This song has so much,many different, meaning for me. My great grandfather was also killed for standing up for what he believed in .... I’m running wolf .... HERE’S TO OUR ANCESTORS ✨
Awesome! There is much healing still to be done but it has begun. Thank You for beautiful music acknowledging Truth in history and Healing the Now..
You my love are a warrior priestess, I was honored to have first heard your voice on Earth Changes Channel.......
May the true God of creation always bless you....
Much love 💕 from my family to yours!🥰💕😘
I really needed this song today. The pain is so strong today of my past and the family lies that they never told me because I was too young they said. Instead I was hated, called names and left to wonder as a child. Their lies where exposed, their hatred was for nay because my dna test showed me the truth of who my ancestors where. I have not moved over that river yet. It am still grieving this pain 6 years later. Thank you for the songs today.
Time traveler i enjoy journeying through your heart. This generation will see a new beginning and truth to the true human potential as Maitreya is now with us.
Much love from New Zealand
I, m from Spain, but I think my spirit comes from you, the most beautiful cultural and ethics is the real American blood, Arapahoe, Crows, Lakotas, etc. I love you with all I am.
Thank you for the "Feeling is Healing" and best Truths touched here, in song form anew... soooooo helpful for the cross-cultural parts of us longing for unity ~our real basis of being human.
Wonderfull peace of art Lyla. I carry welsh and Irish blood, since born I feel that ancient wisdom of our ancestors that were tortured, as well as the americans native. I truly thank you in name of all my ancestors and mine to sharing this with the world. ♥
As a child, my father always said, " Honor ALL of your ancestors." I took this to heart being raised multicultural. My parents taught me as much as they could about my mixed ancestry, and its been a journey, to say the least. Thank you for honoring the wise women in the Old Country and bringing this link back into the conversation!!!!
Veins, Roots! Praises! Prayers, dear heart. Ring Truth, Sing Glory...treasures in antiquity. Bring it forth...
That's my grandpa Joseph Benny my grandma took my mom & her siblings from him & that lifestyle when she was 7. He passed away when she was 16. He was chiricahua & lived & died on the reservation. I am different then my siblings. I'm no longer afraid of who I am. I asked my Grandma she just told me what kind of Apache he is. I have read their spiritual beliefs & it all makes sense. People think I'm a witch but I know I'm not it's my native blood. I naturally know things & I need answers. I'm under attack & listening this soothes me. I connect with the land. I have ancestors that protect me. 1 is a warrior & is a sweet lady older lady big smile , I have 6 warriors that stand with me & I have Angels.
Lyla June is the most beautiful soul on Earth!!!! In love with her and is infinitely beautiful inside and out, sent from above!! Lyla is so Heaven scent, everything she says or does always has so much wisdom, guidance and love in it!! Much love and blessings from Canada!!!🙏🙏💓💓♥♥💚💚💜💜💛💛
I am 1/2 Italian, Irish, Dutch and Native American, my mothers name was Woodard, her mother had 14 children they called her coaches, my feet are flat , I live in n.y. Finger lakes near but not part of six nations people. I feel lost some time and my heart is heavy and I am misunderstood, I am Christian but I truly tried worship in churches but I am more at home in a nature setting I wish things were different it’s out of my control, waiting on The creator to help to make my future better.
The horse knows.
Lyla's command of tempo shift and melody change is so fluid.
Thank you Lyla June for the powerful, healing song❤❤❤.I have ancestors from Scotland and Wales. Time to bring that wound to the surface and allow it to heal. Peace, Love, and Blessings Sister.❤🦋🙏
Powerfully expressed, I see you Lyla June. Thank you for your work for the feminine and peace. Beautifully shared, & so important.
The world thanks you for this song and your beautiful artistry.
Heart felt. Thank you. Deeply moving.
Absolutely Beautiful.
Thank You 💖
You are an AMAZING WOMAN ! KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT !!!!
I stand behind, beside you ALL the way!! The World needs to start telling the TRUTH!!
Thank you
Powerful, God bless you, all our people.
Thank you for your music and the call of peace
The scenery is beautiful in your videos, especially this one🎋🎍🎑
Feel your passion for all souls. May the Great Spirit shine upon you now and always. Thank you from the depths of my soul.
Thank you, Lyla June. 🙏 #MMIW #FreeLeonardPeltier #LandBack #WaterIsLife
"It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.
To change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand. I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the power to give, nurture, enhance life. And I not only pray, but actively work, for the day when it will be so.
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.
[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.
War and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.
We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth.
As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.
We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.
This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.
People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.
While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery. #MurdochGutterMedia
To heal ourselves we also have to heal society. We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth.
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination.
These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East. The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.
Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.
Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.
When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all. In sum, the struggle for our future is ..... the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world." ~ Riane Eisler
If you are proud of your heritage, act like it! With our actions WE BECOME THE HEALERS.❣️. The ancient spirits carry me & I love them back. #RISE #OneNation One heart at a time is still progressing forward.✌️🙏❤️🔥💕⭐
Thank you so much for this song . It make me cry . My Ancestors did what was done to them . I have always been connected to Spirt . I am asking the Creator to send me an Angel like you !
🙏🏾Durga ma Namo Megwetch🔥
What a powerful and beautiful talented women she is the one who speaks for the spirits of her ancestors
its beautiful to witness a mixed native & euro person, who is not white presenting, to acknowledge all parts including the european, so as to come that much more wholness and healing for self and collective. im saying that as a white presenting mixed (native & euro) person.. i dont know how to say it..it helps to create unity amongst people and within one self..and the european part really needs alot of healing and acknowledgement, and i know thats hard but so necesary. you posting is also a great example and encouragement. much love ♡♡♡
What an amazing gift for all of us healers. Beautiful healing song of acknowledgement.
Beautiful witness to the ancestors! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Again Beautiful ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Love you Lyla June.....and the Pollen path is both Dine and European..... Walk together Women!!!! 🌻🌺💙💛🖤🤍
Very nice. I enjoyed. Thank you for sharing your music.
On this the day of lions gate portal , I heal with tears of love compassion hope and yes faith bless you daughter ! You have gave so much
You are such a powerful healer . Thank you for you
Thank you! Wonderful and much appreciated. Great talent
I am Irish Cherokee this is beautiful
Such an amazing video... Wopila, thank you, so much❤️
so beautiful, definitely one of my favorite songs
Thank you. I saw your talk on the Feminine Emergence conference and it really resonates with me.
Blessed blessed Be
Keep up the great work for real much love and respect from your boy Buddha out of Waco Texas WMH Eric Matthew Garcia faith
I am so proud to have been present at this thrilling masterpiece' creation in Brattleboro, Vermont in 2017.
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Thank you sister. ✨🙌
love this so much! thank you Lyla!
Such a beautiful song, I love the structure , thank you!
Something I had not even thought about for so long. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lyla June, for telling this story.
Love your music - your healing prayers!
Wonderful Lyla ~ thank you so much for acknowledging and bringing release and blessing to those victims of one of the greatest genocides of all time. Those women have always had a place in my heart. My place in this lifetime has been in the healing arts & sacred, and I feel drawn to carry on their legacy. Gratitude ~
💧 some of us impaled, strangled, then burnt in those times are reincarnated with memory open as a child. Knowledge of healing herbs & Ways of Life are bridging from ancient times, now, to future, all lands in peace
Well done🎶😄💞🙏💌🌎