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Trouble with translating messages from the ether,other,..either.

 
 
Kobol Strom
18:20 / 10.09.01
I don't often do this,but I'm having trouble with a translation 'of words heard' during a communication with ,for want of any other explanation,a native american war chief,and I was wondering if any of you groovy funsters here knew any native american languages.I will attempt to post what I heard,but its going to be a real long shot....thanks.

He said,(after giving me a high 5),

Hokaikokunokakarinanoowayononano

And now,after I type it out,I realise the futility of this post.Does anyone else have trouble with the language barrier when you communicate with these amazing spirits?And a quick follow up question to the shamans who might be out there,does anyone know anything about the great spirit of the wolf?I only ask because during this communication,...there was a lot of symbolism,if you take my meaning. Again,thanks.

[ 10-09-2001: Message edited by: kobol strom ]
 
 
Ierne
18:39 / 10.09.01
Hey kobol:

Could you describe what the spirit looked like, what it was wearing, etc. ?

I think that would help. You may also want to give a little bit more info as to the symbolism you saw whilst interacting with the spirit, since that may give a clue as to which tribe or part of the Americas your spirit came from.
 
 
Kobol Strom
19:11 / 10.09.01
No problem.

The first trance came when I was slowly awakening from sleep,and I could see a slideshow of images in front of me.I saw a sequence of cave drawings of wolves,some of them seemed familiar,ones that I had drawn in the past,others seemed less so.As they flickered past,I realised they were being shown in chronological order.I knew something was about to happen.I woke up and came face to face with an elderly man,who wore a grey wolf-skin headress and other accoutrements.The first thing I did was kiss him twice on the cheek.I was so grateful for being woken from this reality into his.He was some kind of spirit,lit by firelight,and I wasn't a human being anymore,or in my bedroom.I was a Wolf,wagging my tale,somewhere else ,the works. He was preparing me for an encounter with another spirit,who contacted me by aknowledging my nature,and this represented itself by a moving sand painting of a great hand stroking a wolf.

At the point of trance as I awoke,I could feel that I was able to alter my sense of my own nature,and possibly my form and definatlely my state of mind,to that of the wolf.I've always had strange memories of ice plains,and sometimes,in dreams I used to see the wolf,but now I'm entertainng the idea that I woke into the wolf,and perhaps,the wolf woke into me.Anyway,that day,I'm roaming around the countryside and the parks trying to make sense of what happenend next...

Firstly ,there was this corn field,and it was a midsummer afternoon.The corn stalks were really long and blowing gently.He was on horseback,with white and grey feathers on his clothes and some dangling off his long black hair.He had furs,and his horse was dark brown.He was about 45-50,He held a rifle,in his right hand and he galloped in a semi-circle in front of me,around a dark maroon coloured vehicle,trying to draw the attention of the inhabitants to allow me a chance to find a gap in the mellee to make a conscious memory of what I was seeing.(I speculate).There was ,to my knowledge,an evil man in the back of the car,and it had been my job to find him.I was a man in a longcoat,and when the foe was vanquished the native american rode up to me,and gave me a high 5,which means I must have been on horseback too,(or very tall).Then he said his line,for me to remember, then I immediatley came out of the trance,the very second he finished speaking.He had a smile on his face.I awoke with the words in my mind ,clear as if I was standing in a cornfield listening to them seconds ago.

[ 10-09-2001: Message edited by: kobol strom ]
 
 
Wyrd
22:01 / 10.09.01
Hey Kobol, what a great vision.

It's quite likely that Wolf is your Totem (to use that over-used word). I mean it in the strictest sense of the translation which means something like brother-sister-kin. The gist is that Wolf is you, and you are Wolf - i.e. you're the same clan.

Once again, if you have questions about Wolf then the best thing to do is to direct those questions to Wolf. Also read about the habits of wolves in the wild, as that will give you your best insight into their Nature. You'll probably discover a deep resonance between them and you.

Wolves are very clannish, and very family orientated. The most commonly quoted idea is that Wolf is a teacher - I think this is rather overstated myself, but you'd be best taking this up with Wolf. They are also hierarchical in structure, and can be quite vicious (even with one another), while still retaining their sense of fun and play.

Oh, and go howl at the moon!
 
  
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