On Becoming a Water-Caller

[Iolchan]

On Becoming a Water-Caller

So Who

is Called
to Be
A
Water-Caller,
Anyway?
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It is
a high

Calling.

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To be

A

Proper

Water-Caller,

You must

Love

Poetry,

& Other

Right-Brained

things…

=

One

must

Want,

Passionately,

To Be

Water…

==

One

must

Remember

That

One

Already

Is

Water…

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And so,
One Draws
from the
Common Pool
of Memory

=

to Recall,

Old Songs,

that Healers

used to Sing,

To Call Forth

Water…

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Water Songs,

for Instance,

that were

Sung, by

Indian

Maidens
of the Coastal

Miwok Hill

Peoples…

=

One Draws on

the Memory

of Moishe,

And

his marvelous

dowsing

Rod,

that budded…

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For when Moishe

tapped on

One Large Rock,

that followed

them,

we are told,

in the Wilderness,,,

Water Flowed

as Springs

in the desert…