Lost
Uncle
As told by,
"Being half Cheyenne and an elder in the Shaman Way, while knowing of Native American folklore and or some of the Sacred beliefs, I can offer this take as to a ghostly "Indian" you might meet on some far away mountaintop: if you are serious and are not the adverse, then you may not suffer from knowing, that the Old Ones would say that you were visited by "Lost Uncle," who seeks out the young braves or warriors who have misplaced their sense of balance in the world. You see, 'Lost Uncle' sired no children and was true to but one wife who was killed before her time and in her prime, by a young brave of an enemy tribe who had lost his sense of balance in the world. Lost Uncle always wanted a son, you see, and he was long in his years upon Mother Earth with a heart that felt the hard pain of regret. He wanted to kill the warrior who had killed his beloved, but he did not know what warrior he should kill, so he then left his tribe and was seen wandering the hilltops and mountaintops, in search of that murdering warrior. He carried with him, in his Medicine Bag, the stone he found clutched tightly in his wife's dead hand that matched the stone his father had given to him as a boy called, 'The bravery stone.' The young braves were taught that such a per-chance stone could save your body of water for days if placed under the tongue, and in rubbing it, it could chase away the imbalance that sometimes lurks around the depths of your mind in this world. Lost Uncle wanders the hilltops and the mountaintops still, and it is Ages said that those men who may meet him, even now, might be given such a stone as could be one of the two stones he carries close to his heart. And which stone does he give to those men he may sit and talk with? It is for them only to know and then to go and wonder which stone Lost Uncle had given to them. Long are the days and cold are the nights when Lost Uncle roams the Great Lands, seeking out the spirit of the beautiful love he had lost, and the warrior who slew her before her time from the world.
He carries
two stones in his Medicine Bag . . ."
© 2006 by
Jason 'Greywolf' Leigh
Aho! Mitakuye Oyasin! Washta!
'FIRE' by Dan Bright
