July 24, 2024
The Unchosen Ones: Sisar's Voyage Across Civilizations
The player is loading ...
Overcoming Fears: The Story of Sisar
In this bonus episode of 'Practically Magick', the host shares a captivating ancient story about overcoming fears, highlighting the journey of Sisar. Originating from Sudan and traveling through Egypt, Babylon, and various other cultures, Sisar learns profound mythologies. Despite not being chosen to join Noah's Ark, she showcases creativity and resilience by building her own arks and filling them with skilled women and her closest companions. As she journeys to the untouched land of Ireland, she aims to create her own mythology despite facing significant personal challenges. This tale encourages embracing the role of the 'not chosen' and finding strength in one's own narratives.
00:00 Introduction to Practically Magic
00:41 Story of Overcoming Fears
02:26 The Tale of Sisar Begins
03:02 Sisar's Journey Through Ancient Civilizations
04:22 The Prophecy and the Ark
07:57 Sisar's Creative Solution
09:01 Encounter with Greek and Celtic Mythology
10:12 Arrival in Ireland and Creation of New Mythology
13:12 Legacy of the Not Chosen People
13:47 Conclusion and Farewell
#StoryTime #Mythology #AncientHistory #OvercomingFears #PodcastBonus #PatreonExclusive #PublicEvents #CreativeEnergy #DigitalStorytelling #Magic
1
00:00:10,535.791824177 --> 00:00:15,235.791824177
Hello and welcome to this bonus material of Practically Magic.
2
00:00:15,665.791824177 --> 00:00:21,590.791824177
Today we are going to give you a little Snippet of some story time.
3
00:00:22,0.791824177 --> 00:00:29,200.791824177
I am preparing to do some public events where I'm going to, um, display some stories that I've prepared.
4
00:00:29,240.791824177 --> 00:00:38,160.791824177
And so I thought it would be a great opportunity to record the story and have it available to those who are our Patreon or for.
5
00:00:38,765.791824177 --> 00:00:40,815.791824177
Bonus material on ride the wave media.
6
00:00:41,865.791824177 --> 00:00:46,655.791824177
And today I've been asked to do a story about overcoming fears.
7
00:00:47,805.791824177 --> 00:00:58,75.791824177
And so when digging around for some mythology or perhaps some personal stories about overcoming fears, I came across this story, which is a very old ancient story.
8
00:00:58,595.790824177 --> 00:01:02,225.791824177
Um, that is retold by a mythologist named Sandy Dunlop.
9
00:01:02,895.791824177 --> 00:01:11,800.791824177
Dunlop, And he is a mythographer, um, particularly specializing in stories that have been used and abused by power.
10
00:01:13,230.791824178 --> 00:01:19,550.791824177
And when I heard this story, I had to learn it and tell it, retell it in my own way.
11
00:01:20,460.791824177 --> 00:01:25,955.791824177
And so this is the story of The not chosen people.
12
00:01:27,535.791824177 --> 00:01:31,485.791824177
And I love that because I think I know what it feels like.
13
00:01:31,615.791824177 --> 00:01:37,465.791824178
I think most people who are listening to this story know what it feels like to be the not chosen people.
14
00:01:39,195.791824178 --> 00:01:44,495.79182418
You can imagine those moments you've had in your life where perhaps you were being chosen for a game.
15
00:01:44,925.79182418 --> 00:01:49,755.79182418
And of course the fastest and the strongest are chosen as team captains.
16
00:01:50,345.79182418 --> 00:01:57,730.79182418
And they're going to choose who they feel are the next team fastest and strongest to be a part of their team.
17
00:01:58,940.79182418 --> 00:02:14,80.79082418
And I think everyone knows what it feels like to be waiting for your name to be called, wondering if you're going to be fast enough or strong enough or talented enough or athletic enough to be chosen for the game.
18
00:02:15,230.79182418 --> 00:02:20,380.79182418
And if that has never happened to you, well, good for you.
19
00:02:22,300.79182418 --> 00:02:25,430.79082418
For most of us, we know what that fear feels like.
20
00:02:26,480.79182418 --> 00:02:28,380.79082418
And this is the story of Sisar.
21
00:02:29,475.79182418 --> 00:02:47,115.79182418
In a few thousand years BC, maybe four or five thousand years BC, we have the story of Sisar and Sisar, Sisar, Sisar, she comes from a land at the beginning of civilization.
22
00:02:47,115.79182418 --> 00:02:48,795.79082418
It's in the northern end of Sudan.
23
00:02:49,50.79182418 --> 00:02:53,320.79182418
And it's where there is a trade network.
24
00:02:53,340.79182418 --> 00:02:54,520.79182418
There are pyramids.
25
00:02:54,580.79182418 --> 00:02:58,980.79082418
It is kind of the start of civilization in our world as it, as we know it.
26
00:02:59,580.79182418 --> 00:03:01,220.79182418
And this is where her story starts.
27
00:03:02,260.79182418 --> 00:03:12,110.79182418
She goes from Sudan where she travels up or down the Nile river to Egypt.
28
00:03:13,575.79182418 --> 00:03:19,25.79182418
And I can only imagine that when she spent time in Egypt, she probably heard a lot of the stories there.
29
00:03:20,165.79182418 --> 00:03:36,55.79182418
She probably heard the mythology of the story of Isis, the goddess who is the goddess of healing, whose husband, Osiris, is torn apart into 14 different pieces by his brother, and Isis being the healing goddess.
30
00:03:36,810.79182418 --> 00:03:45,620.79182418
tries to put all of his parts back together and heal him and make him whole again, which she is successful at all except for one part.
31
00:03:45,630.79182418 --> 00:03:49,800.79082418
And those of you who know the mythology of Isis know what that one part was.
32
00:03:50,240.79182418 --> 00:03:54,720.79182418
She was not able to successfully reattach to her husband's body.
33
00:03:54,790.79082418 --> 00:04:06,35.79082418
But, uh, Even so, she figures out a way to still create worlds and to give birth to her son.
34
00:04:07,325.79182418 --> 00:04:10,615.79182418
And I imagine Sisera, she was there being fostered in her youth.
35
00:04:10,615.79182418 --> 00:04:19,925.79182418
She probably heard those stories and got comfortable with what those stories were and how they influence the people of Egypt.
36
00:04:22,325.79182418 --> 00:04:31,985.79182418
It is at this point in time that a priest tells her a prophecy that at some point in her life, she will go and inhabit a land never before touched by humans.
37
00:04:33,625.79082418 --> 00:04:37,775.79082418
And she takes this journey from Egypt and she goes to Babylon.
38
00:04:38,395.79082418 --> 00:04:40,795.79182418
And in Babylon, she hears the story of Tiamat.
39
00:04:41,160.79182418 --> 00:04:50,80.79182418
The goddess who had her children destroyed, and therefore becomes the angry woman goddess who is out for revenge.
40
00:04:50,390.79182418 --> 00:04:55,900.79082418
She gives birth to monsters, and she's ready to kind of destroy.
41
00:04:57,120.79182418 --> 00:05:14,720.79182418
And then we have The beginning of the strong man mythology here because Marduk, who is a strong man, he is the one who shoots an arrow and kills Tiamat and dismembers her body into two pieces, which become the earth and the heavens.
42
00:05:17,30.79082418 --> 00:05:26,770.79182418
And isn't it interesting, Sisar probably compared these stories of the dismembered God in Egypt and the dismembered goddess in Babylon.
43
00:05:26,770.79182418 --> 00:05:31,920.79182418
Fun? And from here, her journey takes her to the Hebrew tribes.
44
00:05:33,100.79182418 --> 00:05:39,240.79182418
And it is at this point in the story that we learn that Sisera is actually the granddaughter of Noah.
45
00:05:40,350.79182418 --> 00:05:44,860.79082418
She is the daughter of Bith, who is Noah's son, and her brother is Larda.
46
00:05:46,200.79182418 --> 00:05:56,680.79182418
And by the time she gets to the Hebrew tribes, she hers, learns of another mythology story, which is of the God Yahweh.
47
00:05:57,630.79182418 --> 00:06:29,540.79182418
And her grandfather has been appointed by Yahweh to build an ark and has prophesied that there will be rains and there will be floods because there are groups of people that have angered Yahweh and Yahweh is a vengeful God and Noah is the strong hero who is going to be able to recognize and discern who is worthy of joining the Ark and who is not.
48
00:06:31,720.79182418 --> 00:06:47,720.79182418
And unfortunately for Sisar, at this point in her journey, in this point in her long travels, in all of her knowledge and wisdom, she has come to her grandfather and he tells her she is not worthy to join him on the Ark.
49
00:06:49,80.79182418 --> 00:06:50,100.79182418
She's not chosen.
50
00:06:50,370.79182418 --> 00:07:01,680.79182418
She has been consorting with thieves and vagabonds and therefore he's going to choose the animals and he's going to choose the family members that are going to join him on the Ark.
51
00:07:02,820.79082418 --> 00:07:09,740.79182418
Now this is a pivotal moment in Sisar's story because this is a point where this means certain death.
52
00:07:11,550.79182418 --> 00:07:19,290.79182418
It is painful and it is usually means death when someone is rejected from their own family.
53
00:07:22,885.79182418 --> 00:07:35,185.79182418
We know from this great amount of chaos and fear when something like this happens in our lives that human beings are tend to respond in fight, flight, or freeze.
54
00:07:36,565.79182418 --> 00:07:37,795.79082418
Or perhaps fawn.
55
00:07:38,965.79082418 --> 00:07:43,5.79182418
And César could have resorted to any of those techniques.
56
00:07:43,125.79182418 --> 00:07:49,225.79182418
Maybe in fawning, she could have said, Grandfather Noah, please allow me to be on your boat.
57
00:07:49,225.79182418 --> 00:07:49,985.79132418
I will do anything.
58
00:07:49,985.79132418 --> 00:07:51,745.79182418
I will submit to your authority.
59
00:07:51,745.79182418 --> 00:07:56,245.79082418
I will submit to you if I can just be allowed on the ark.
60
00:07:57,985.79182418 --> 00:08:01,25.79082418
Now to her credit, Sisar does not do this.
61
00:08:02,195.79082418 --> 00:08:11,455.79182418
Even in such a time of great fear, she decides instead to get creative and what she does instead.
62
00:08:12,200.79182418 --> 00:08:14,560.79182418
is she builds her own.
63
00:08:14,750.79182418 --> 00:08:17,840.79182418
Not one, but three arcs.
64
00:08:19,640.79182418 --> 00:08:27,340.79182418
And instead of gathering animals to fill this arc, note she instead gathers her 50 besties.
65
00:08:27,750.79182418 --> 00:08:29,110.79082418
Her 50 best friends.
66
00:08:29,130.79182418 --> 00:08:36,560.79182418
50 women who each are, um, skilled in some way that will be helpful to them.
67
00:08:37,920.79182418 --> 00:08:42,860.79182418
And these arcs are going to be populated by 50 women and three men.
68
00:08:44,690.79182418 --> 00:08:53,510.79082418
And these three men are her father, her brother, and her chosen mate, her lover, Fenton.
69
00:08:54,960.79082418 --> 00:09:00,255.79182418
And They take their three arcs and they continue their journey.
70
00:09:01,355.79182418 --> 00:09:13,5.79182418
And it is on this part of the journey that they are, they come into contact with the Greeks and in learning about some of the Greek mythology.
71
00:09:13,15.79182418 --> 00:09:15,835.79182418
And I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with Greek mythology.
72
00:09:15,835.79182418 --> 00:09:19,985.79182418
It's something that we're taught in elementary school most of the time.
73
00:09:19,985.79182418 --> 00:09:30,165.79182418
And so, She recognizes something very interesting about the Greeks, and that is that they don't just have Greek mythology and stories, but they have philosophers as well.
74
00:09:31,295.79182418 --> 00:09:34,905.79182418
And what's interesting about the philosophers is that they hate mythology.
75
00:09:35,765.79082418 --> 00:09:36,625.79182418
They hate it.
76
00:09:37,955.79082418 --> 00:09:42,375.79082418
And why do they hate it? Not because it's not powerful, but because it is powerful.
77
00:09:43,215.79082418 --> 00:09:45,635.79082418
Mythology has such a power over the people.
78
00:09:46,565.79182418 --> 00:09:49,45.79182418
And Cesar, in all of her travels, would have noted this.
79
00:09:49,705.79182418 --> 00:09:53,75.79182418
And she continues on, and she sees, and she meets with the Celts.
80
00:09:54,85.79182418 --> 00:10:01,865.79182418
And she notices that the Celts have great stories about kingship, and anointing kings by sovereignty goddesses.
81
00:10:02,465.79182418 --> 00:10:06,465.79182418
And the Celts have such a deep connection with the land.
82
00:10:08,645.79182418 --> 00:10:11,835.79182418
And then, she would have continued traveling on.
83
00:10:12,985.79182418 --> 00:10:18,375.79182418
And this is where she gets to the land that has never before set foot by humans.
84
00:10:19,430.79182418 --> 00:10:20,960.79182418
And she lands the Arks.
85
00:10:20,960.79182418 --> 00:10:29,890.79182418
Unfortunately, two of them are destroyed, and so she lands the Ark on Duninbach, the land of Ireland.
86
00:10:31,370.79182418 --> 00:10:38,690.79182418
And this is as close to a creation story as we have for Ireland, so she lands there 40 days before the Flood.
87
00:10:40,200.79182418 --> 00:10:48,90.79182418
But, now, she has a blank canvas for which to create her own mythology.
88
00:10:49,470.79182418 --> 00:11:02,500.79182418
It is Marshall McLuhan that said something along the lines of, and I am summarizing or paraphrasing, he says, The one thing in which the fish knows about nothing about, it's water.
89
00:11:03,280.79182418 --> 00:11:04,650.79182418
And he's talking about culture.
90
00:11:04,660.79182418 --> 00:11:05,670.79132418
Water is culture.
91
00:11:05,670.79132418 --> 00:11:10,840.79182418
So here is a journey that Cesar has been on, that makes the Odysseus special.
92
00:11:11,435.79182418 --> 00:11:11,885.79182418
Journey.
93
00:11:11,885.79182418 --> 00:11:30,615.79182418
The Odyssey looked like a trip around the duck pond because she has witnessed and collected stories her entire life on this vast journey, seeing so many parts of the world and so many cultures, and that is how she's able to know her own culture, her own story.
94
00:11:32,195.79182418 --> 00:11:39,875.79182418
So she arrives in Dunbar and she is going to create her own mythology, her own story.
95
00:11:41,740.79182418 --> 00:11:59,940.79282418
Unfortunately, tragedy strikes again when her lover Fenton, tasked with being one of the fathers of the next generation and being pressured into it and wanting to avoid those pressures, he abandons her.
96
00:12:00,690.79082418 --> 00:12:03,530.79182418
He is a shapeshifter in this story.
97
00:12:03,540.79182418 --> 00:12:09,480.79182418
And so he shapeshifts into a salmon and he swims away as the waters begin to rise.
98
00:12:11,375.79182418 --> 00:12:13,145.79182418
And now she is heartbroken.
99
00:12:14,135.79182418 --> 00:12:20,885.79182418
She has no way to carry on her descendants.
100
00:12:22,585.79182418 --> 00:12:34,185.79182418
But even as the waters rise, she is not fearful because she knows that even if she is not going to pass on her lineage, she is going to pass on her story, her mythology.
101
00:12:34,665.79182418 --> 00:12:52,965.79082418
And after the experiences and wisdom that she's had over everything she's been through, she knows that that And to make up for his, um, abandonment, Fenton actually turns from a salmon into a hawk.
102
00:12:53,415.79182418 --> 00:13:02,430.79182418
And he ends up living another 5, 000 years spreading her story around the world to make up for his, um, Great sin.
103
00:13:04,300.79182418 --> 00:13:17,800.79182418
And this is how, when the waters rise and she is overcome, she knows that her legacy will be the story of the not chosen people.
104
00:13:19,620.79182418 --> 00:13:45,190.79182418
In a world of chaos, in a world of fear, do we look to the strong man, the Yahweh, the Noah, or the Morduk? Of the story, or do we look in the face of creative energy itself? I, for one, will be proud to be one of the not chosen people like César.
105
00:13:47,680.79182418 --> 00:13:49,530.79182418
And that is my story today.
106
00:13:49,810.79182418 --> 00:13:51,530.79082418
Thank you so much for listening.
107
00:13:51,710.79082418 --> 00:13:52,950.79082418
I hope you enjoyed it.
108
00:13:53,340.79182418 --> 00:14:07,450.79182418
And if you would like to see more from me, you can find me on Instagram at prism underscore healing, or on Tik TOK at prism healing, where I share more of what I have to offer.
00:00:10,535.791824177 --> 00:00:15,235.791824177
Hello and welcome to this bonus material of Practically Magic.
2
00:00:15,665.791824177 --> 00:00:21,590.791824177
Today we are going to give you a little Snippet of some story time.
3
00:00:22,0.791824177 --> 00:00:29,200.791824177
I am preparing to do some public events where I'm going to, um, display some stories that I've prepared.
4
00:00:29,240.791824177 --> 00:00:38,160.791824177
And so I thought it would be a great opportunity to record the story and have it available to those who are our Patreon or for.
5
00:00:38,765.791824177 --> 00:00:40,815.791824177
Bonus material on ride the wave media.
6
00:00:41,865.791824177 --> 00:00:46,655.791824177
And today I've been asked to do a story about overcoming fears.
7
00:00:47,805.791824177 --> 00:00:58,75.791824177
And so when digging around for some mythology or perhaps some personal stories about overcoming fears, I came across this story, which is a very old ancient story.
8
00:00:58,595.790824177 --> 00:01:02,225.791824177
Um, that is retold by a mythologist named Sandy Dunlop.
9
00:01:02,895.791824177 --> 00:01:11,800.791824177
Dunlop, And he is a mythographer, um, particularly specializing in stories that have been used and abused by power.
10
00:01:13,230.791824178 --> 00:01:19,550.791824177
And when I heard this story, I had to learn it and tell it, retell it in my own way.
11
00:01:20,460.791824177 --> 00:01:25,955.791824177
And so this is the story of The not chosen people.
12
00:01:27,535.791824177 --> 00:01:31,485.791824177
And I love that because I think I know what it feels like.
13
00:01:31,615.791824177 --> 00:01:37,465.791824178
I think most people who are listening to this story know what it feels like to be the not chosen people.
14
00:01:39,195.791824178 --> 00:01:44,495.79182418
You can imagine those moments you've had in your life where perhaps you were being chosen for a game.
15
00:01:44,925.79182418 --> 00:01:49,755.79182418
And of course the fastest and the strongest are chosen as team captains.
16
00:01:50,345.79182418 --> 00:01:57,730.79182418
And they're going to choose who they feel are the next team fastest and strongest to be a part of their team.
17
00:01:58,940.79182418 --> 00:02:14,80.79082418
And I think everyone knows what it feels like to be waiting for your name to be called, wondering if you're going to be fast enough or strong enough or talented enough or athletic enough to be chosen for the game.
18
00:02:15,230.79182418 --> 00:02:20,380.79182418
And if that has never happened to you, well, good for you.
19
00:02:22,300.79182418 --> 00:02:25,430.79082418
For most of us, we know what that fear feels like.
20
00:02:26,480.79182418 --> 00:02:28,380.79082418
And this is the story of Sisar.
21
00:02:29,475.79182418 --> 00:02:47,115.79182418
In a few thousand years BC, maybe four or five thousand years BC, we have the story of Sisar and Sisar, Sisar, Sisar, she comes from a land at the beginning of civilization.
22
00:02:47,115.79182418 --> 00:02:48,795.79082418
It's in the northern end of Sudan.
23
00:02:49,50.79182418 --> 00:02:53,320.79182418
And it's where there is a trade network.
24
00:02:53,340.79182418 --> 00:02:54,520.79182418
There are pyramids.
25
00:02:54,580.79182418 --> 00:02:58,980.79082418
It is kind of the start of civilization in our world as it, as we know it.
26
00:02:59,580.79182418 --> 00:03:01,220.79182418
And this is where her story starts.
27
00:03:02,260.79182418 --> 00:03:12,110.79182418
She goes from Sudan where she travels up or down the Nile river to Egypt.
28
00:03:13,575.79182418 --> 00:03:19,25.79182418
And I can only imagine that when she spent time in Egypt, she probably heard a lot of the stories there.
29
00:03:20,165.79182418 --> 00:03:36,55.79182418
She probably heard the mythology of the story of Isis, the goddess who is the goddess of healing, whose husband, Osiris, is torn apart into 14 different pieces by his brother, and Isis being the healing goddess.
30
00:03:36,810.79182418 --> 00:03:45,620.79182418
tries to put all of his parts back together and heal him and make him whole again, which she is successful at all except for one part.
31
00:03:45,630.79182418 --> 00:03:49,800.79082418
And those of you who know the mythology of Isis know what that one part was.
32
00:03:50,240.79182418 --> 00:03:54,720.79182418
She was not able to successfully reattach to her husband's body.
33
00:03:54,790.79082418 --> 00:04:06,35.79082418
But, uh, Even so, she figures out a way to still create worlds and to give birth to her son.
34
00:04:07,325.79182418 --> 00:04:10,615.79182418
And I imagine Sisera, she was there being fostered in her youth.
35
00:04:10,615.79182418 --> 00:04:19,925.79182418
She probably heard those stories and got comfortable with what those stories were and how they influence the people of Egypt.
36
00:04:22,325.79182418 --> 00:04:31,985.79182418
It is at this point in time that a priest tells her a prophecy that at some point in her life, she will go and inhabit a land never before touched by humans.
37
00:04:33,625.79082418 --> 00:04:37,775.79082418
And she takes this journey from Egypt and she goes to Babylon.
38
00:04:38,395.79082418 --> 00:04:40,795.79182418
And in Babylon, she hears the story of Tiamat.
39
00:04:41,160.79182418 --> 00:04:50,80.79182418
The goddess who had her children destroyed, and therefore becomes the angry woman goddess who is out for revenge.
40
00:04:50,390.79182418 --> 00:04:55,900.79082418
She gives birth to monsters, and she's ready to kind of destroy.
41
00:04:57,120.79182418 --> 00:05:14,720.79182418
And then we have The beginning of the strong man mythology here because Marduk, who is a strong man, he is the one who shoots an arrow and kills Tiamat and dismembers her body into two pieces, which become the earth and the heavens.
42
00:05:17,30.79082418 --> 00:05:26,770.79182418
And isn't it interesting, Sisar probably compared these stories of the dismembered God in Egypt and the dismembered goddess in Babylon.
43
00:05:26,770.79182418 --> 00:05:31,920.79182418
Fun? And from here, her journey takes her to the Hebrew tribes.
44
00:05:33,100.79182418 --> 00:05:39,240.79182418
And it is at this point in the story that we learn that Sisera is actually the granddaughter of Noah.
45
00:05:40,350.79182418 --> 00:05:44,860.79082418
She is the daughter of Bith, who is Noah's son, and her brother is Larda.
46
00:05:46,200.79182418 --> 00:05:56,680.79182418
And by the time she gets to the Hebrew tribes, she hers, learns of another mythology story, which is of the God Yahweh.
47
00:05:57,630.79182418 --> 00:06:29,540.79182418
And her grandfather has been appointed by Yahweh to build an ark and has prophesied that there will be rains and there will be floods because there are groups of people that have angered Yahweh and Yahweh is a vengeful God and Noah is the strong hero who is going to be able to recognize and discern who is worthy of joining the Ark and who is not.
48
00:06:31,720.79182418 --> 00:06:47,720.79182418
And unfortunately for Sisar, at this point in her journey, in this point in her long travels, in all of her knowledge and wisdom, she has come to her grandfather and he tells her she is not worthy to join him on the Ark.
49
00:06:49,80.79182418 --> 00:06:50,100.79182418
She's not chosen.
50
00:06:50,370.79182418 --> 00:07:01,680.79182418
She has been consorting with thieves and vagabonds and therefore he's going to choose the animals and he's going to choose the family members that are going to join him on the Ark.
51
00:07:02,820.79082418 --> 00:07:09,740.79182418
Now this is a pivotal moment in Sisar's story because this is a point where this means certain death.
52
00:07:11,550.79182418 --> 00:07:19,290.79182418
It is painful and it is usually means death when someone is rejected from their own family.
53
00:07:22,885.79182418 --> 00:07:35,185.79182418
We know from this great amount of chaos and fear when something like this happens in our lives that human beings are tend to respond in fight, flight, or freeze.
54
00:07:36,565.79182418 --> 00:07:37,795.79082418
Or perhaps fawn.
55
00:07:38,965.79082418 --> 00:07:43,5.79182418
And César could have resorted to any of those techniques.
56
00:07:43,125.79182418 --> 00:07:49,225.79182418
Maybe in fawning, she could have said, Grandfather Noah, please allow me to be on your boat.
57
00:07:49,225.79182418 --> 00:07:49,985.79132418
I will do anything.
58
00:07:49,985.79132418 --> 00:07:51,745.79182418
I will submit to your authority.
59
00:07:51,745.79182418 --> 00:07:56,245.79082418
I will submit to you if I can just be allowed on the ark.
60
00:07:57,985.79182418 --> 00:08:01,25.79082418
Now to her credit, Sisar does not do this.
61
00:08:02,195.79082418 --> 00:08:11,455.79182418
Even in such a time of great fear, she decides instead to get creative and what she does instead.
62
00:08:12,200.79182418 --> 00:08:14,560.79182418
is she builds her own.
63
00:08:14,750.79182418 --> 00:08:17,840.79182418
Not one, but three arcs.
64
00:08:19,640.79182418 --> 00:08:27,340.79182418
And instead of gathering animals to fill this arc, note she instead gathers her 50 besties.
65
00:08:27,750.79182418 --> 00:08:29,110.79082418
Her 50 best friends.
66
00:08:29,130.79182418 --> 00:08:36,560.79182418
50 women who each are, um, skilled in some way that will be helpful to them.
67
00:08:37,920.79182418 --> 00:08:42,860.79182418
And these arcs are going to be populated by 50 women and three men.
68
00:08:44,690.79182418 --> 00:08:53,510.79082418
And these three men are her father, her brother, and her chosen mate, her lover, Fenton.
69
00:08:54,960.79082418 --> 00:09:00,255.79182418
And They take their three arcs and they continue their journey.
70
00:09:01,355.79182418 --> 00:09:13,5.79182418
And it is on this part of the journey that they are, they come into contact with the Greeks and in learning about some of the Greek mythology.
71
00:09:13,15.79182418 --> 00:09:15,835.79182418
And I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with Greek mythology.
72
00:09:15,835.79182418 --> 00:09:19,985.79182418
It's something that we're taught in elementary school most of the time.
73
00:09:19,985.79182418 --> 00:09:30,165.79182418
And so, She recognizes something very interesting about the Greeks, and that is that they don't just have Greek mythology and stories, but they have philosophers as well.
74
00:09:31,295.79182418 --> 00:09:34,905.79182418
And what's interesting about the philosophers is that they hate mythology.
75
00:09:35,765.79082418 --> 00:09:36,625.79182418
They hate it.
76
00:09:37,955.79082418 --> 00:09:42,375.79082418
And why do they hate it? Not because it's not powerful, but because it is powerful.
77
00:09:43,215.79082418 --> 00:09:45,635.79082418
Mythology has such a power over the people.
78
00:09:46,565.79182418 --> 00:09:49,45.79182418
And Cesar, in all of her travels, would have noted this.
79
00:09:49,705.79182418 --> 00:09:53,75.79182418
And she continues on, and she sees, and she meets with the Celts.
80
00:09:54,85.79182418 --> 00:10:01,865.79182418
And she notices that the Celts have great stories about kingship, and anointing kings by sovereignty goddesses.
81
00:10:02,465.79182418 --> 00:10:06,465.79182418
And the Celts have such a deep connection with the land.
82
00:10:08,645.79182418 --> 00:10:11,835.79182418
And then, she would have continued traveling on.
83
00:10:12,985.79182418 --> 00:10:18,375.79182418
And this is where she gets to the land that has never before set foot by humans.
84
00:10:19,430.79182418 --> 00:10:20,960.79182418
And she lands the Arks.
85
00:10:20,960.79182418 --> 00:10:29,890.79182418
Unfortunately, two of them are destroyed, and so she lands the Ark on Duninbach, the land of Ireland.
86
00:10:31,370.79182418 --> 00:10:38,690.79182418
And this is as close to a creation story as we have for Ireland, so she lands there 40 days before the Flood.
87
00:10:40,200.79182418 --> 00:10:48,90.79182418
But, now, she has a blank canvas for which to create her own mythology.
88
00:10:49,470.79182418 --> 00:11:02,500.79182418
It is Marshall McLuhan that said something along the lines of, and I am summarizing or paraphrasing, he says, The one thing in which the fish knows about nothing about, it's water.
89
00:11:03,280.79182418 --> 00:11:04,650.79182418
And he's talking about culture.
90
00:11:04,660.79182418 --> 00:11:05,670.79132418
Water is culture.
91
00:11:05,670.79132418 --> 00:11:10,840.79182418
So here is a journey that Cesar has been on, that makes the Odysseus special.
92
00:11:11,435.79182418 --> 00:11:11,885.79182418
Journey.
93
00:11:11,885.79182418 --> 00:11:30,615.79182418
The Odyssey looked like a trip around the duck pond because she has witnessed and collected stories her entire life on this vast journey, seeing so many parts of the world and so many cultures, and that is how she's able to know her own culture, her own story.
94
00:11:32,195.79182418 --> 00:11:39,875.79182418
So she arrives in Dunbar and she is going to create her own mythology, her own story.
95
00:11:41,740.79182418 --> 00:11:59,940.79282418
Unfortunately, tragedy strikes again when her lover Fenton, tasked with being one of the fathers of the next generation and being pressured into it and wanting to avoid those pressures, he abandons her.
96
00:12:00,690.79082418 --> 00:12:03,530.79182418
He is a shapeshifter in this story.
97
00:12:03,540.79182418 --> 00:12:09,480.79182418
And so he shapeshifts into a salmon and he swims away as the waters begin to rise.
98
00:12:11,375.79182418 --> 00:12:13,145.79182418
And now she is heartbroken.
99
00:12:14,135.79182418 --> 00:12:20,885.79182418
She has no way to carry on her descendants.
100
00:12:22,585.79182418 --> 00:12:34,185.79182418
But even as the waters rise, she is not fearful because she knows that even if she is not going to pass on her lineage, she is going to pass on her story, her mythology.
101
00:12:34,665.79182418 --> 00:12:52,965.79082418
And after the experiences and wisdom that she's had over everything she's been through, she knows that that And to make up for his, um, abandonment, Fenton actually turns from a salmon into a hawk.
102
00:12:53,415.79182418 --> 00:13:02,430.79182418
And he ends up living another 5, 000 years spreading her story around the world to make up for his, um, Great sin.
103
00:13:04,300.79182418 --> 00:13:17,800.79182418
And this is how, when the waters rise and she is overcome, she knows that her legacy will be the story of the not chosen people.
104
00:13:19,620.79182418 --> 00:13:45,190.79182418
In a world of chaos, in a world of fear, do we look to the strong man, the Yahweh, the Noah, or the Morduk? Of the story, or do we look in the face of creative energy itself? I, for one, will be proud to be one of the not chosen people like César.
105
00:13:47,680.79182418 --> 00:13:49,530.79182418
And that is my story today.
106
00:13:49,810.79182418 --> 00:13:51,530.79082418
Thank you so much for listening.
107
00:13:51,710.79082418 --> 00:13:52,950.79082418
I hope you enjoyed it.
108
00:13:53,340.79182418 --> 00:14:07,450.79182418
And if you would like to see more from me, you can find me on Instagram at prism underscore healing, or on Tik TOK at prism healing, where I share more of what I have to offer.
