YÂLO WEGYÂ Introduction This trail is a spiral that spins in both directions. DAWEYO, hearth woman, accompanied our first steps around sacred fire, then delivering us into the care of LAGYÂNO, shrine keeper, who took us out the far edges of wild land and up to the high misty summit, where SOITLÂ welcomed us to […]
COLD STORY (sixth loom stone) Ren said that the cold story must be told. She said we should go to the lake and stand there until we heard the cold story coming, and when it did, we must reach out. She said we should hold on to that cold story as if our lives depended […]
WHEN HERON FLIES NORTH (heron tree) We circle again to the place of HERON and our sacred road through womanhood; we reach crone and bone. When the heron flies north, we honour old women, crones and hags in all their manifestations. In this place we will dance barefoot with death upon the earth and be […]
ERBYO ADSORO Trust the Return This film takes place inside the Soitlâ’s dreaming house and the pilgrimage lasts for about one hour. Before entering the ceremony you may wish to gather these things: your drum or rattle, your notebook, the hazel stick and red ochre from your travelling bundle, anything else you have created during […]
FINAL FOOTSTEP Holding your fourth fragment from the jagged wolf tale, you have completed your ERBYO ADSORO ceremony within the dreaming house. You have laid trail sticks down to mark the returning path and more arrows were carved into the sacred sffondo while your footsteps carried you around this pilgrimage. Now you are ready to […]
ERBYO ADSORO: WOLF TALE (soitlâ’s fire) Perhaps we are starting to learn to look beyond the dazzling teeth and glinting claws… WHEN THE PLAGUE WOLVES CAME: Trusting the Return (fourth fragment) Our children have been the first to understand this. Cushioned inside their safe home-made worlds of sunlit tales and gleeful adventures, nested beneath the […]
