Spirit Runner Chapter 35 – Ayohotulee
The Legend of the Ayohotulee (or Thunder Birds, or Storm Hawks) told by Tybetha is derived from mystical creatures found in Native American mythology, but given a distinctively future-cycle retelling.
If you’ve never read stories of the Thunderbirds or the Eagle and Condor, you should peruse a few of these suggested links:
- Thunderbird (mythology) – Wikipedia
- Native American Legends of the Southeast – book excerpt
- The Thunderbird – Legends of America
- Legendary Native American Figures – native-languages.org
- Thunderbird – mythology.net
- The Eagle and the Condor Prophecy – Pachamama Alliance
- The Eagle and Condor Prophecy – Ancient Pages
The aspects of the stories woven selected and together with the Patterns of Rootstock Saga to form the Legend of the Ayohotulee bring together these key elements:
Storms
Ayohotulee, like the Thunderbirds, are associated with storms. They can bring and dispel storms. Their wings create thunder. Their eyes flash lightning.
Shapeshifting
Ayohotulee are shapeshifters. They can take on human form. They blend into human families and villages, marry, and have children. Their spirits can pass from one generation to the next. Waiting. Learning. Becoming something more.
Duality
Ayohotulee, like the Eagle and Condor, were originally together, and then separated. Like the twin dragons of N’si and N’in, they represent a dispersion of people who once shared a common culture and lineage.
Reuniting
The estranged Ayohotulee are destined to reunite after they fulfill their task of reclaiming their magic (reaching a new level of human consciousness). They will “fly together wing-tip to wing-tip, and the world will know balance.”
This parallels themes of the Awakening and the Joining.
Ayohotulee also foreshadow the melding of the Chalyns. The two individual birds or two individual people come together as one.
So yeah, the Ayohotulee is an important bit of lore not to have shared with your husband, Lucinda.