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Message no. 1
From: scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject: Nature Totems, Idols, Mythic Totems
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:09:53 -0700 (PDT)
It says that "at some point in a neophyte shaman's
life comes the call of a totem, in the form of a dream
or vision."

As in my previous question, how would someone called
by Oak, Dragonslayer, Creator, Wise Warrior, or Sun,
etc. have a dream or vision about them? What would
they appear as?

Also, with the question of the Shamanic Mask, how
would that manifest for a PC following those Totems?
Would it be the same for an Oak Shaman or a Sun Shaman
as it would for an Eagle Shaman or a Snake Shaman? How
could one describe that?

Would a Moon Shaman look like one big moon? :-)

What would the Shamanic Mask of a Wind Shaman look
like? Dark King? Bacchus? Moon Maiden? The other
Mythic Totems?

DO Idol Totems even have Shamanic Masks?

And what about PCs that follow Pagan God Totems (State
of the Art: 2064; p. 123)? Would they have Shamanic
Masks, too?

Thanks again,
Sincerely, Scott
Message no. 2
From: wolfjack@********.org (WolfJack)
Subject: Nature Totems, Idols, Mythic Totems
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:21:42 -0400
Scott Hiller wrote:

>As in my previous question, how would someone called
>by Oak, Dragonslayer, Creator, Wise Warrior, or Sun,
>etc. have a dream or vision about them? What would
>they appear as?
>
>
I'll answer this by way of example using Oak.

"You close your eyes, letting the smoke from the fire and smudge pots
wash over you. As you slowly relax you breathing you can feel a slight
shift. Your eyes slowly open and you find yourself not in the lodge but
in a forest glade. The clearing is surrounded by trees, packed so
tightly side to side that light hardly seems to enter the clearing. As
you look slowly around you notice a tree towering above you, taller then
any Sequoya you've seen on a `trid or read on the `trix. It's branches
reach up into the heavens and you can sense that it's roots extend down
unto the core of the earth itself.

Slowly you feel a vibration, a rumbling, under you. A pressure closes
around you and you can feel the vibration in the core of your body. You
hear....something. A tree cracking? Roots ripping? No, it's your
name. Spoken slowly by the deepest, bass, voice you have ever heard."

....and you go on from there.


-Wolfie

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