The following text is an exerpt from C.P. Estes' "Women Who Run With Wolves" (chapter 16)
The Wolf's Eyelash
(setting: A girl ventures out into the woods against others' warning, because she has to meet the wolf. She comes across a wolf in a trap. Against better knowledge she overcomes her fears and trusts the wolf's promise that, if he was freed, he would not harm the girl. Releasing the wolf from the trap, the girl expects to be eaten alive)
»Instead this wolf put his paw upon her arm.
"I am a wolf from
another time and place," said he. And plucking an eyelash from his eye, gave it to her and said, "Use this , and be wise. From now on you will know who is good and not so good; just look through my eyes and you will see clearly.
For letting me live,
I bid you live
in a manner as never before.
Remember, there's only one question
worth asking fair maiden,
wooooooooor
aieeeee th'
soooooooool?"
. . . . . .
»But moreso, in this new seeing, not
only did she see the sly and cruel, she began to grow immense in heart, for she looked at each person and weighed them anew through this gift from the wolf she had rescued.
. . . . . .
»This is how she learned that it is true what they say, that the wolf is the wisest of all. If you listen closely, the wolf in its howling is always asking the most important question -- not where is the next food, or where is the next fight, not where is the next dance? --
but the most important question
in order to see into and behind,
to weigh the value of all that lives,
wooooooor
aieeeee th'
sooooooooool?
wooooooooooor
aieeeee th'
sooooooool?
Where is the soul?
Where is the soul?
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen, and your life will never begin.«
©copyright 1970, from "Rowing Songs for the Night Sea Journey,
Contemporary Chants" by C.P. Estes.
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