Promethean Daze

Filled with eating and communing, this week-long celebration, occurring between Christmas and New Year's Day, falls into two distinct parts. The first phase clears the mind of delusional, self-imposed boundaries that were constructed during the course of the previous year. The individual seeks to break down her own boundaries, while the houses work to break down repressive structures they have erected. When this event occurs on a tribal level, the whole tribe works to remove the previous order and leave a clean slate for reorganization. The second stage works to predict the events of the new year. Drumming is used to call upon the harmony of the past and to welcome new spirits into existence. We hope to find the new spirits birthed from Gaia's womb and promise our allegiance to them. In turn for protection, we ask the spirits to aid us in future times. We try to expand our minds and find new direction and insight.