Ouroboros Spine ✶ aniqduum nanaa tutaku ✶

closed to all male members of moonglow! u are still welcome to make references in other posts to a gathering. if ur character does choose to invade, there will be IC consquences! just @Callyope for now, will tag everyone later <3

the plant lay in dried white leaves inside the darkest part of kukutux' ulaq.

harvested at the beginning of summer, it was greatly potent. now she unwrapped the piece of soft hide and showed the spirit-petals to her daughter. "malitjuagak," she said aloud. close at hand was a small hollowed piece of bark.

"chew. do not swallow. spit." the makeshift bowl would thereafter be filled with a milky liquid. she left its full preparation to callyope, while she herself said the old, old prayers to sedna and tooteega and the listening spirits.

the night had fallen. stars shone fiercely above. the moon rose.

ingesting some measure of the spirit-drink was ineveitable. her daughter would discover this for herself. kukutux kept up the drumbeat of her words, saying the prayers three times for the ears of callyope. spirit-talker. spirit-walker.

we call to those who listen,
we ask for your strength
our mother is angry
we must stop the retribution
we ask you to come and to help us.

mother. grandmother. hear us.

they carried it between them to the place of the three sisters, and there kukutux killed a rabbit. its blood ran fresh against the ground. she anointed herself between the muzzle and then daubed the crimson to the muzzle and cheeks and brow of callyope.

moonwoman; her voice took up the chanting again, for a moment, assembling all before she called the women of moonglow.