This story is about a salmon youth, transformed from ugly to handsome, and given inspiration on the "fifth bow?" (Where the salmon and the bow both can be related to the waning moon shape.) This is the fifth bow after rebirth/ascent from the underworld and travel to where Coyote dwells (first full moon after the full moon of release from psychic death) or I guess the sixth bow after the rebirth full moon. There I am assuming that Coyote is associated with full moon and salmon/bow with waning crescent moon.
This I relate to the "five cauldrons" or "eight score muses" of the Taliesin poems, and to the 5.5 lunar months between my "Arianrhod's prison" and "Ceridwen's inspiration" onsets. Of course the salmon is also important to the celts, especially in the story of Finn. Ha, good name.
The Museum contains spiritual artifacts from all over the world. People from all over the world visit it, including during Expo86 and global leader summits (Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin met next door in I think 1995; the media crowd took over the grad student centre across the street that I was a regular and sound tech at, plus they had a sniper on the roof. They were going to meet in the Museum but Mr. Yeltsin declined due to the spiritual artifacts, but they did visit the Museum.)
Now I'm not saying it has magical bonding power, just bonds of commonality and love and peace. The carving is of Raven atop a giant clamshell from which humans are straining to emerge. This for me symbolizes strongly the pre-new-moon mystic stories that I have been recounting, which I believe to be common to many global spiritual paths. It also symbolizes our global common goal to produce a heaven/garden on earth.
Two Raven musical notes:
Victoria resident Mae Moore's
Nightbird song goes "when the nightbird calls your name; don't
listen or nothing will ever be the same..." (But do you want
everything to stay the same, including environmental trends?)
On a Saturday night early in 1997 I walked into the Ship Inn for
the Culture Club session and
as I closed the door the line "does the darkness grant release"
from Ron Hynes' Cryer's Paradise title track (about Elvis/etc)
rang out from the stereo -- I thought this a good coincidence.
This is also linked to the Darkest Night
Embraces section.
Also my comments about a Beothuk wake WOMAD festival
healing ritual in the Asatru
section may be of interest. I will probably separate those
out soon since it is of course more than Vikings who affected
the Beothuck. For now I have also linked to it from
the celtic and Christian sections.
Regarding the Beothuk, when I scanned the Newfoundland museum
(which also has a stag with seven tines on both large horns)
collection on them I was struck by one rectangular pendant
downstairs with
five sections, as if the number five was important to them too.
Also the whale's tail drawing upstairs evoked the waning crescent
moon to me. But I will have to get Ingeborg Marshall's big
new book on the History and Ethnography of the Beothuk soon and
scan that for important symbols, when I'm less poor. Oh,
also red ochre could be associated with goddess menstruation
or new moon, at least it is in some cultures. The new moon
shamanic inititation I went through in September 1991 was like
a rebirth, hence coating with red ochre may be a dedication
to this dark night great spirit.
I have lots of reading to do, including Brookes Medicine Eagle's
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and hope that the Lakota White
Buffalo Woman was a woman solar sunspot cycle prophet type,
but will have to check the local library for Black Elk's words
in The Sacred Pipe soon. Also is there a good bio of Black Elk?
The buffalo/lightning paths I relate to the waning horn of moon
and waxing horn of moon, with clear sky lightning before the
inspiration and after a solar flare. The shaman must wind
down and steady the sleep cycle by new moon to avoid the waxing
horn effects. The picture in Brookes Medicine Eagle's
book of a buffalo bull with lightning is such that if the
lightning is coming down at you the horns of the bull are
oriented like waning and waxing moon horns.
Also the
Lakota have a sundance tradition which I relate a little to the
golden feathers of the sun of my own
sun stare. However note that
my sun stare incident is according to alt.native regulars
not very similar to native sundance traditions, plus some
of them claim the term sundance is exclusively native,
so I now use the term sun stare instead of sundance.
But I still hope to research the origins of sundance
traditions (and other traditions involving respect to
the sun) to find out if there are even slight similarities
between said origins and my sun stare experience. But
I don't plan to repeat my sun stare, and my sun stare
was not influenced by native traditions, unless Sarah
Mclachlan's song Into the Fire was influenced by native
traditions.
This series I think refers to an original human
figure Quetzalcoatl. He is mainly a Mexican figure
but I think is also known in Central America so I
have put this section in both the North American
native parallels page and the Central and South
American native parallels page.
Once I thumbed at random D.H. Lawrence's The Complete
Poems and came out at a page with some poems relating
Jesus and Quetzalcoatl, from the section Poems From
the Plumed Serpent. On that page was the short poem
My name is Jesus, I am Mary's son,
Brother, Quetzalcoatl,
From that I interpret the dark moon as being new moon,
so related to my waning crescent to new moon highs,
and the hold back the wild hot sun to my sun stare
of Sept. 5, 1991, 2.5 days before the exact time of
new moon.
Some other relevant quotes from those poems are:
In the cave which is called Dark Eye
Those last four lines are about Quetzalcoatl than
Jesus though, but they again indicate to me my
sun stare and in it the tunneling beyond the sun.
Some more lines, from a poem called Quetzalcoatl
looks down on Mexico, are:
Jesus had gone far up the dark slope, when he looked back.
In that I interpret the sparks to be like my own mystic
spark experiences.
Also I know alcohol wasn't much used in pre-Columbus
South and Central America, so I don't expect that there
is evidence that the original human Quetzalcoatl abstained
from alcohol 1--9 days before full moon as I do now, but I plan
to research if I can whether he abstained from
psychotropic drugs during waxing moon and partook
of them during waning moon at times (though I do not
plan to).
In the book PAGAN & CHRISTIAN CREEDS:
THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING by Edward Carpenter it says:
(2) See Kingsborough's Mexican Antiquities, vol. vi, p. 176,
where it is said "an ambassador was sent from heaven on an embassy to a
Virgin of Tulan, called Chimalman... announcing that it was the will
of the God that she should conceive a son; and having delivered her the
message he rose and left the house; and as soon as he had left it
she conceived a son, without connection with man, who was called
Quetzalcoat, who they say is the god of air." Further, it is explained
that Quetzalcoatl sacrificed himself, drawing forth his own blood with
thorns; and that the word Quetzalcoatlotopitzin means "our well-beloved
son."
So Quetzalcoatl seems to have undergone a naked thorn hill climb
like mine of Sept. 5/6, 1991.
Glooskap
I heard on the radio a story about a native youth who had
to travel seven years to consult Glooskap (or Glooscap) and
then seven years to get back home. From that I think that
either Glooskap or the native youth had either seven years
or fourteen years of low years. (I am now, July 5, 2013,
at 17 years and more than 5 months.) But I need to do
more research into Glooskap and that story.
Jesus and Quetzalcoatl
I am coming home,
My mother the Moon is dark
Hold back the wild hot sun.
Bind him with shadow while I pass.
Let me come home.
Behind the sun, looking through him as a window
Is the place. There the waters rise,
There the winds are born
Quetzalcoatl, my brother! he called. Send me my images,
And the images of my mother, and the images of my saints.
Send me them by the swift way, the way of the sparks,
That I may hold them like memories in my arms when I go to sleep