- Interesting quotes from the Boatman upon our second visit
Balz: We discovered a tower where someone as constructing an interesting device.
The future is always difficult to tell, but for a long time people have looked to the stars for inspiration, and for someone to peer closely makes sense> I do find the nature of stories and their power over the mind to be fascinating.> I don’t have any one set of feelings [on Gorgomogg], but I have heard of him as you describe as a god that brings an abundant harvest that brings plent, husbands animals, and also a terrible evil king of the dead who seeks to overthrow the living, but again the power of stories is far reaching, so probably both are true in their own way.> You might find that if you go outside this cave, the waterfall doesn’t fall quite as fall as you remember it, but water can have strange properties, especially when it connects one place top another. They say sap has to travel…> Silas: Do you know of Seren?
I have never met her, but I have seen her footprints traveling from one place to another and wondered who was following those paths.
Silas: Where were these paths?
It is somewhat hard to describe these to someone that rather like walking in the countryside and through a forest and coming across footprints of another traveler who leaves a scent behind or other evidence. If you travel enough paths, or come to enough crossroads, you come to recognize those things.> And so I wonder whatever is beneath that lake, perhaps some call it Gorgomogg enough so that’s what it is. Others call it a nameless evil. I’m not sure the name of it affects its nature, but the way it’s spoken about does.> [After we share Osgog and the Dragon] If there is something large and incomprehensible to people, those things maybe go unnamed. It’s a sign of a lack of understanding.> [Re: the watch tower] The stories say that long ago great and terrible powers were trapped beneath the mountain range and less those powers reemerge, a watch was set. And that tower from what I understand was amongst those that set the watch, but something went wrong and the watcher became the thing that was watched and a great darkness was released. And so that tower is said to have fallen. [The shadow we saw] seems perhaps to be some very small piece of it perhaps was tied to the place. I had not heard of that anything was lingering there.> [Re: the bear]
- [To awaken the bear] I think you would have to find him, first.
- The Great Bear is always spoken about as a powerful being who in ancient times was subdued by the forces of mankind and who many say he will never arise to his full strength again because his time has passed. But his memory lingers on (CRANBERRIES) and there are those who still believe in him, so perhaps he still has some power.
- If you travel and listen and remember what you hear, you gain certain insights. But I’m a listener and a gatherer of moss, not so much a doer and a shaker.> [Re: bees]
Silas: Can you tell us how the bees, the great bear and the mother tree are connected? I can only tell you that they always seem to be. Whatever is happening with the bees is ancient, and lingers in stories. But it’s not something that I understand.
Bran: Could the bees be messengers from one place to another?
I’ve always understood the bees that we encounter to be the workers and completers of tasks.
Balz: Fibonacci? 21 bees?
A long time ago, I climbed one of the peaks near the lake where we met. And high amongst the rocks, a giant raven landed next to me. A big one. And told me that he could hear the buzzing of his fellow bees on the wind. And that is the most specific information I’ve ever gotten from anyone about it!