Sublime

The phoenix bird is immersed into fire, to be consumed by the flames, to burn to ashes and rise renewed, remade, reformed – the same, but altogether different.

Facing fearful odds protecting the bones of her fathers and the temples of her gods.

As the British, French and Germans became intrigued by their pre-Christian ancestry, the discovery of America revealed native people who seemed to be living in a way similar to that of their own ancestors, as described by these classical authors.

Love of the Land, the Earth, the Wild – with a reverence for Nature.

[We send you now into the maw of a forgotten castle of the black dragons, locked in time by the working of a Monarch with skills beyond mortal comprehension. If the two of you can siphon but the fraction of power within, you will soar to the skies…but only if you do not crumble before their mighty will.]

From the Blessing Way prayer used by the Navajo of the American desert Southwest (Diné in their own tongue) to honor natural order in times of chaos

He was a fearsome warrior with a giant club that could both kill—up to nine men in one blow—and restore life to the fallen in battle. For this he was also known as a god of life and death.