Paleolithic elk image that we rooted out from our collective unconscious. Abstract and intertwined, we dreamed of the elk. Elk preside over sexuality, and those who dream of the elk wear elk horns and have a mask of rawhide.
From Mythology of The Blackfoot Indians, by Clark Wissler, D. C. Duvall:
There was once an elk who was deserted by his wife. When he found that she was gone he went out to look for her, and finally saw her in the thick woods. He was very angry and wished to kill her: so he walked toward her singing a song. Now this was a medicine-song, and he intended that its’ power should kill his wife. He had great power. The ground was very hard; but at every step his feet sank deeper into it. Now his wife was frightened; but she had some power also. She began to sing a song, and as she did so she turned into a woman. In her new form she wore a medicine-bonnet, a robe of elk-hide over her shoulders, and elk-teeth on her wrists. The song that she sang when she became a woman was: -
“My wristlets are elk-teeth;
They are powerful.”
I dreamed of the elk.
From Mythology of The Blackfoot Indians, by Clark Wissler, D. C. Duvall:
There was once an elk who was deserted by his wife. When he found that she was gone he went out to look for her, and finally saw her in the thick woods. He was very angry and wished to kill her: so he walked toward her singing a song. Now this was a medicine-song, and he intended that its’ power should kill his wife. He had great power. The ground was very hard; but at every step his feet sank deeper into it. Now his wife was frightened; but she had some power also. She began to sing a song, and as she did so she turned into a woman. In her new form she wore a medicine-bonnet, a robe of elk-hide over her shoulders, and elk-teeth on her wrists. The song that she sang when she became a woman was: -
“My wristlets are elk-teeth;
They are powerful.”
I dreamed of the elk.
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