Post by PHAROS on Jun 20, 2020 0:17:23 GMT -6
TOTEM ISLAND
Totem Island is small, roughly the size of a couple of football fields, located just off of the eastern bank of Black Lake. It's close enough to the shoreline that a foot bridge, approximately fifteen meters in length provides access to it. It has a picnic area and washrooms on the northwest side. A trail encircles it's high banks. At the center is a large open area and a Lenape monument. Made in 1977, it's four sculptures ranging from nine to ten feet in height. They are the Keepers of Creation, four powerful Spirit Beings, Spirits of the Rock, Fire, Wind, and Water. Each of their statues faces the direction they are named after.
Muxumsa Lowànewànk, our Grandfather in the North. Placed there to control the power of rock. He gave forth solidity and physical form to the Creator's thoughts, to his vision. North Grandfather gives us the wintertime, ice, snow, and cold; also, our bodies, the rocks, the trees, and all that we see around us.
Muxumsa Wapànewànk, our Grandfather of the East. Placed there to control the power of the wind. He gave forth breath and mind to the Creator's vision. He gives us springtime, the breath of life, birth and new beginnings, and brings forth the light, the winds, our minds, creativity, knowledge, music and songs;
Huma Shawànewànk, our Grandmother in the South. Placed to control the power of fire. She gave forth Spirit, life and growth to the vision of the Creator. She gives us the summer, warmth, growth and maturity, our inner fire and Spirit, and gives fire to the Sun;
Muxumsa Wunchènewànk, our Grandfather in the West. Placed there to control the power of water. He brought a watery and softening influence to the Creator's vision. He gives us autumn, gives us death, and readies us for renewal, and gave us the waters, our life's blood, healing, intuition, emotions, dreams and visions, and rain.
These four Spirit beings, Keepers of the Creation, helped the Creator to make the stars, the sun, the moon and the Earth.
The sculptures all back onto a column at the center that stands fifteen feet in height, a spire topped with a point, mainly to deter people from scaling the monument.
HIGH STRANGENESS
Totem Island has always been a place of power, even before the monument was made. It is a very potent place for the production of magic. The monument of the Keeper of Creation, is very powerful. It possesses the power of the old gods and while this can empower supernatural events, it actually subdues the magical abilities of other preternatural beings. Only those who are of Lenape heritage and ability are significantly strengthened. Those of the Pack are much stronger on the island, as are other Native American preternaturals.
Totem Island is small, roughly the size of a couple of football fields, located just off of the eastern bank of Black Lake. It's close enough to the shoreline that a foot bridge, approximately fifteen meters in length provides access to it. It has a picnic area and washrooms on the northwest side. A trail encircles it's high banks. At the center is a large open area and a Lenape monument. Made in 1977, it's four sculptures ranging from nine to ten feet in height. They are the Keepers of Creation, four powerful Spirit Beings, Spirits of the Rock, Fire, Wind, and Water. Each of their statues faces the direction they are named after.
Muxumsa Lowànewànk, our Grandfather in the North. Placed there to control the power of rock. He gave forth solidity and physical form to the Creator's thoughts, to his vision. North Grandfather gives us the wintertime, ice, snow, and cold; also, our bodies, the rocks, the trees, and all that we see around us.
Muxumsa Wapànewànk, our Grandfather of the East. Placed there to control the power of the wind. He gave forth breath and mind to the Creator's vision. He gives us springtime, the breath of life, birth and new beginnings, and brings forth the light, the winds, our minds, creativity, knowledge, music and songs;
Huma Shawànewànk, our Grandmother in the South. Placed to control the power of fire. She gave forth Spirit, life and growth to the vision of the Creator. She gives us the summer, warmth, growth and maturity, our inner fire and Spirit, and gives fire to the Sun;
Muxumsa Wunchènewànk, our Grandfather in the West. Placed there to control the power of water. He brought a watery and softening influence to the Creator's vision. He gives us autumn, gives us death, and readies us for renewal, and gave us the waters, our life's blood, healing, intuition, emotions, dreams and visions, and rain.
These four Spirit beings, Keepers of the Creation, helped the Creator to make the stars, the sun, the moon and the Earth.
The sculptures all back onto a column at the center that stands fifteen feet in height, a spire topped with a point, mainly to deter people from scaling the monument.
HIGH STRANGENESS
Totem Island has always been a place of power, even before the monument was made. It is a very potent place for the production of magic. The monument of the Keeper of Creation, is very powerful. It possesses the power of the old gods and while this can empower supernatural events, it actually subdues the magical abilities of other preternatural beings. Only those who are of Lenape heritage and ability are significantly strengthened. Those of the Pack are much stronger on the island, as are other Native American preternaturals.
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