ressed to the Cherokee sacred powers. The other organization consisted of younger men who were the warriors, this was known as the "red" organization.
             The Cherokee's believed that the sacred powers of the mythic world are often hostile to human concerns for reasons that are embedded in the very necessities of life. The Cherokee mythic world is stratified into seven levels "above the horizon" and a lower world beneath the surface of the earth from which appear the purifying rivers, the springs of which were sacred passages into that lower world. This place was populated with innumerable creatures, both material and mythic in form. The upper world, of that which is "above everything", is sometimes called the "seventh height." This consecrated realm was above the visible day or night sky. There, the great divine powers, along with the ancestors of each of the animal clans who were the sacred prototypes of those animals actually inhabiting the earth, lived along with the Thunder powers.
             The Shamans of this tribe would use herbs and verbal utterances i
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