SHE sat outside her hut and looked out towards the distant horizon; in every direction she saw the same grey white landscape. As the sun rose a touch of pink washed the grey white with a slight blush. The cool air carried the dry, gritty taste of calcite, still holding a trace of yesterday’s hot, baking sun.
Life, SHE mused, came in so many shapes and forms. It began in a deep silent place. Some engendered life in plants, someone out there somewhere started life encapsulated in a seed. SHE pondered the strangeness of life beginning in this way. The seed it wasn’t her way. Her calling was bones.
She drew out her bone flute looking out across the landscape. The sun’s light cast radiance across the powdered bones and some of the bone minerals held lustre. This was bone she would call. SHE raised the flute to her lips; the sound that poured forth was a magnetic drawing. Hallow and haunting it spiraled out and gathered the bone components. As SHE softened the call the spiral moved towards her
SHE stood and looked into the heart of the spiral where she could see the being awaiting creation. Confused SHE looked again, this was something SHE had never found before. This spiral held a duality, two spirits entwined, parts blended together and parts holding their own matrix. This day was proving interesting.
Clockwise SHE walked around the bone spiral singing a song of being, of conception, of origination and imagination, setting down the template. When SHE reached the end of her refrain SHE looked again into the spiral and saw a duality of person and animal. Counter clockwise SHE walked singing the song of separation, of difference and acceptance. Her skill was drawing dimension from the template.
SHE continued her rotation singing continuously soon SHE saw the being emerging momentarily a man appeared and then a wolf. Then a combination of both wolf and man emerged. This duality had never appeared before. Bone spirit came in one form SHE was intrigued with this new creation. Her song reached its end and as the song frayed into the landscape.
Before her the life she created from bones was a man who was a wolf who SHE now understood was a gift for her lonely life.
