So very intense and beautiful dream last night. It was one of those dreams where it was clearly a movie I was meant to watch
The closest I can explain to the shape of people in my dream were that one scene in Fantasia where there’s a water spirit and she glides over the land. Or maybe even Tafiti at the end of Moana when shes an earth god again.
But I was watching the spirits who control the waters begin the ritual of sharing resources with the land spirits in order to appease the greater spirits. Many people in this dream could take different animal forms. For example the leader of the water spirits was more like a cat like creature but the largest spirit form was a large bird whose wings actually push the water down river like the current at one point in the dream. The leader of the land spirits was a large maybe wolf creature who burrowed in the dirt. This spirit form was more rare in the dream for an insane reason I will get to soon.
The comic relief of the dream and a break from the beautiful landscapes thr two groups traveled through was finding out that the elders don’t actually accompany the groups on this journey anymore they just fly on a plane and meet the spirit/ritual leaders at the designated location. So that was a funny sidebar of saying goodbye to everyone at the airport then immediately going back into the dream wherw the two groups of people were fighting through a storm along a rocky coast.
At first I thought they were just trying get through the storm then I saw these horrible creatures that were going between flying and standing on the top of the waves. They were so dark it was like a void and I thought at first they were the fire spirits. But it turns out they were death coming for each member of the two groups in its own way. It was death in the way that it was affecting everyone at once and bringing down the group at the same time. This is where the element groups are important. The water spirits were going between their animal forms and human forms quickly depending if they were on land or in the waves fighting off the death creatures. From what I could see is while in spirit form they could not drown and stand on the waves so some of the people would quickly transform back into humans to “fall through” the waves to escape the death and then change back into their animal forms to climb up the waves and begin attacking them. While the cat leader was trying to protect her people and fight the death creatures. There was as a pass where she collapsed because a vision of how to stop the death was strong it took her out. While the land group was quickly building (think earthbending almost) back up the cliff side that was quickly washing away. Some of them were also building spires for the water people to drop the death on. Their leader refused to change into his animal form, like the water people unless they were in spirit form they couldn’t manipulate the earth. He was fighting hand to hand with whatever death creatures tried to land. The water leader quickly flooded the area where he was and created an air pocket for just them. And she said I know you’re scared because of your form but you need to trust me that YOU CAN FEED ON ME WHEN WE ARE DONE. So apparently the earth guy, there’s no other wolves because they feed off of human blood and many groups consider them too dangerous as adults. So they either have “accidents” as teenagers or are cast off as babies. Of course the wolf guy says nope there has to be another way. The water lady shakes her head and turns back into a human and quickly grabs a knife from the wolf man and cuts her neck from behind her ear down her neck. He yells and even the death stops tormenting people. He quickly tries to stop the bleeding and she keeps weakly pulling his hands away from the cut. He begins to finally lick up the blood and they both transform to their animal forms also in sync and he continues to drink. A sign that they are meant to be sacrificed later (apparently a powerful couple needed to be killed but that is a secret and the elders tell people they just have to mix blood over sacred land) is no matter how much he drank she didn’t get weaker instead her wound began to heal. She pawed at him and realized the wound was sealed. The scene changed from stormy and dark to calm and quiet. The death creatures were gone but there were bodies of the water people, the earth people and some of the creatures.
Later after making funeral pyres for all the fallen members it’s late and they’re camping farther inland. It was interesting that the cut was healed but left a scar. The wolf guy was mad about that and the woman came to visit him in the covered eating space. She knew the actual purpose of their ceremony and meeting. She was raised in a temple of sorts. She told him and explained she can’t die from anything but their sacrifice just like him. She was very calm about it in a melancholy way. Of course he was mad and she said something incredible but I don’t quite remember it. It went something like
“This is how we have to die and I am told we die like this because we love each other truly. So don’t be upset our souls have been entangled for this purpose and you can already feel it.”
I woke up after this and I felt longing like when I used to see the kind brown eyed man in my dreams. Maybe someday I will write a book about this. I think in my version they both die because they’re at peace and together but who knows maybe someday I’ll have the second part of the dream.
