Ask Raven: Shaman’s Vow in the Hidden Fjord

🪶✨ Ask Raven! The wise one listens and answers with song.
From cedar dusk 🌲 to tidal dawn 🌊, Raven circles above, carrying memory, myth, and flame.
In this episode, the question lingers: Can you chain the body, but not the fire?

Bound in ropes ⛓️, shoulders bleeding, a healer is taken through the fjords.
The canoes 🛶 cut into Roscoe Inlet, cliffs looming, waters silent.
He is taught new tongues, new laws, reshaped in captivity — yet his ember 🔥 smolders still.

This is the Doctrine of Embers:

• Ashes whisper.

• Embers sleep.

• Silence itself becomes a teacher.
  Though captors tried to erase his past, the prophecy endured, hidden beneath cedar shadows.

At Kwakwalease, the first bay, the captives were shown new customs — hearth smoke rising, cedar poles standing tall, children laughing, songs carrying across the shore.
At Clatsje, the hidden lake, silence pressed down like a cage. Here the healer made his vow: You bind my hands, but not my flame. You steal my voice, but not my name.

Even in re-education, even in silence, fire learns to rise again.

I circle above.
I see the healer bow his head, but not his will.
I hear the ember whisper in silence: prophecy waits.
The mountains keep it, the tide remembers, and the flame will walk once more.

This episode is part of Ask Raven: The Fire That Walks Again — a docudrama weaving Indigenous legend, narrative verse, and supernatural vision.
It follows Gwa Gwa, shaman and prophet, through capture, exile, and vow — from cedar shores to hidden fjords, from silence to flame.
Every Ask Raven episode blends poetic narration, Indigenous storytelling, and the haunting cadence of memory.

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Nevermore. Nevermore. Nevermore.

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