From:	steven mancini <mancinis@******.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject:	Shamanic Notes: Animals
Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 1993 06:15:26 EST

From: nephilim@*****.solace.mh.se (Thomas Eriksson)
Subject: animals.txt

This article is excerpted from the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal.
Each issue of the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal is published by
High Plains Arts and Sciences; P.O. Box 620604, Littleton Co.,
80123, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, under a Public Domain
Copyright, which entitles any person or group of persons to
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abbreviated in any fashion, and credit is given the original
author.!

POWER ANIMALS

by Alernon


Come to us: Eagle, Wolf, Bear and Cougar.
Dance we now The Power dances.

Eagle soaring above the peaks,
Share with us freedom, majesty and fighting skills.
Teach us lessons we need to learn.
Dance with us The Power dances.

Wolf, cunning tracker, by day or night. Share with us endurance,
courage and adaptability.
Teach us lessons we need to learn. Dance with us The Power
dances.

Bear, trampling along earthen paths, Share with us Mighty
strength and sense of smell.
Teach us lessons we need to learn. Dance with us The Power
dances.

Cougar, lonely tracker of terrains, Share with us Agility,
stamina and endless curiosity. Teach us lessons we need to
learn. Dance with us The Power dances.

Movements slow
Movements rapid.
Frenzied swaying
Upward, downward.
Dipping, turning
Round and round.
Dance we now
The Power dances.

Dancing partners,
You and I.
With me, in me
I am you, you are me.
Together as one,
Yet separate, too.
Dance we now
The Power dances.

Awaken now
All Spirit Beings,
To dance the dances
With your human kin.

Dance the Cycles
Of Life and Death,
Hope and Fear,
Good and Evil.
Dance the Cycles,
Now and Again.

Lowerworld, Upperworld,
Journeying now
and forevermore.
Of Time and Space
All is Once,
There is none.
Dance the dances
Again and again.