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Limbo
May 2004
time: 22:36
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Iatekwah gathered a squad of his strongest Lawgivers, put a pair of prayer-muffs over his ears, acknowledging that not all the Cayugas ideas were useless, and let his men lead him into the desert. He nodded a greeting to the moving lips of Hodenayedakwa, chief of the Onondagas.
It was difficult speaking when he could not hear his own words, but he felt that removing the prayer-muffs now, in front of the priest, would be misinterpreted as a sign of respect and he wanted above all to be clear. He delivered his message as concisely as he could, the Onondagas among all the people were prone to find hidden meaning in words. Iatekwa had none. When he was done he waited for a response. In that brief pause the face of his interlocutor displayed an astounding array of emotion, discomfort at the Lawgivers presence, shock at the insult of the prayer muffs, horror at the proposal, and terror that it could not be refuse. The face then did the thing Iatekwa had hoped it would not; it began a slight motion as if it would shake a disagreeing side-to-side.
Iatekwah had seen enough. He nodded to his men and his squad quickly dispersed into the crowd of priests, Sewatsiakens swinging. When Hodenayedakwa’s face showed fear and shame Iatekwah knew that the debate over primacy of Mohawk or Onondaga had been settled. The head shaman had to accept the righteousness of this argument: Perhaps the Haudenosaunee were not meant to wait for the Great Spirit’s return, but were meant to help him search.
3550 BC to Arnelos
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24-09-2004 19:53
thanks Snoopy 
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