THE CROCODILE-FACTOR STORY-ENIGMA AROUND AN AFRICAN TREE
EPISODE IV
A SHOE HEADED MAN PICNICS WITH A WINGED CROCODILE
OR
SEEING KAKO'S LONG AND COATED TONGUE…
… After KaKo left the WE-Village, starting his journey to Watta-Village, he knew he had more than a week of walking through the bushes and the big forest to reach his second supervisor's village.He has prepared himself : He has one sharp machete to pave the way; a bag with garments inside to change if necessary; some utensils inside, and pieces of dried food and fruits to eat; his right shoe was inside his bag too; and of course some other little stuff Shaman carry...KaKo was like many other villagers; he was a child of the forest; and as long as the jungle and the forest were around him, nourishing himself wasn't really a problem; and as streams of large and small rivers seemed to be resonating all around him, finding water to drink or washing himself wasn't a problem either... So to imagine him surviving or spending his life skirting the forest was like one imagining a camel treading a path along any sandy desert...
...So after three days of journeying alone with his bag upon his head or bumping his back..., it was late when he reached a small clearing and decided to prepare himself for the night soon to come; he felt the place was the right one to sleep: hidden and protected from what he knew as being dangerous to anyone... After he had finished finding some dry wood and small branches to light a little fire, he cut some large leaves of banana trees and other similar leaves to make a perfect mattress for the night... So after almost an hour of preparation he found himself comfortably situated... He ate some fish and dried fruits; and once again packed his bag with his essential belongings... Small calabashes and leaves were his plates and napkins... His bag was his pillow... Then he laid on his new mattress situated not really on the ground but suspended upon a large branch of a short tree... And we can't really say what he smoked after eating or what strong herb he started to chew or which words he chanted to have the protection of his Forefathers in getting him ready to rest; anyway, it didn't take him long to fall asleep...
… As the night drew deeper into its dark silent mysteries, a bright greyish egg-shaped shadow looking like a footless…? Who’s footless?... Sanka!.. He’s so fully transformed but that first supervisor: The Eye of Sanka! Diso (Eye)-La-Sanka appeared in front of him… Unpredictably, 'The Eye of Sanka' just came to visit him that night; while KaKo was upon a branch trying to sleep… Diso-La-Sanka, ‘The Eye of Sanka', his silvery eye half-moon shaped could be seen, asked him to wake up and follow him... « Take your shoe and follow me KaaaKoooo! Someone is waiting for yoôuuu! » those were words his mind's ears seemed to understand... Can't say why, but something made KaKo take his shoe from his bag and not resist, following that silvery eye, paving the way through the bushes... KaKo was a respectful and brave young shaman; so silently, he started to follow the brilliance of 'The Eye of Sanka' paving the way in front of him until he reached another clearing where a sitting form of a… wooooh!... a sitting form of a…? a humanly sitting
form of a human being with an unreasonable moving head…
Everything looks strange but that seems an acceptable challenge for KaKo..: A man was sitting in Lotus position on the ground and was eating; meaning he was sharing his food with (…?) another moving form of a creature to… to probably have to avoid… We may also be wondering why 'The So Bright Silvery Eye of Sanka', KaKo was following, ordered him to stop, to wait a while and to have a better look... So KaaaKooo seemed to concentrate more trying to understand what he was looking for...The more he concentrated, the more he could see:
The man who was sitting on the ground had a head like a shoe: he was a shoe headed man; and, just in front of him was a strong, winged crocodile... Both were eating, sharing the same body mass of something dismembered on the ground... And to the ones coming to meet him, this shoe headed man presented his back while the winged crocodile's eyes noticed the presence of the newcomers by starting to lap more and more and largely opening his jaws… From both who were picnicking together, KaKo couldn't really say who's voice was rising… Around him KaKo felt 'The Eye of Sanka' trying to secure him; blinking and telling him : « Don't be afraid KaaaKooo! KaaaKooo-ooh! I will be around following & protecting you wherever you may have to go; but for now you have to choose! » To choose what...? To choose what? To choose between what...?
So KaaaKooo concentrated again listening to what the voice coming from inside the shoe of this shoe headed man was asking..:« My winged crocodile has to travel with... with... » Really KaKo must concentrate very hard to understand that : every one was waiting for him to see if the traveling winged crocodile will have to travel from here through the skies over any pyramid carrying and lifting up his shoe or his head...!?
… So once again the shoe headed man was asking KaKo: « Do you want my winged crocodile to travel with your shoe or your head (KaaaKooo!) protected between his powerful jaws? » 'The Eye of Sanka' couldn't respond in his place… Likely as a watchful supervising eye that was open and ready to protect and comfort him; ‘The Eye of sanka’s silence was becoming unbearable, more questioning. KaKo knew at last by looking at how the shoe headed man was acting what to choose... It really wasn't time to enter inside his own shoe; so he started to shake his head more
and more to see the best he could; his own shoe was bumping inside his bag on his back… Bumping trying to reach one of his shoulders... KaKo, seeing and hearing 'The Eye of Sanka' starting to laugh louder and louder getting closer and closer to his neck!!!?...His neck; his neck…?
Yes! all around his neck.
TO BE CONTINUED...
... Don’t you cut off…? Yes!My dear I-Friend-Traveler, some will be afraid to follow this journey of initiation, but all this is about being courageous or brave in following an Afro-Character in his tribulations until calling on and mingling with some creatures… oops! some sensemillancestral creatures believed to be alive and still living on to meet… according to the level of perception someone may introduce to have inside the bushes of any forest of this Afro-character’s Forefathers... KaKo will meet, challenge and be challenged by some of these sensemillancestral creatures; and most of the time only to see how to… to… to… to…To transform or be transformed… but into what… one of them…???But in many ways, KaKo was and is first challenging himself…
End of Episode IV.
Any reply or encouragement will be welcomed...
EPISODE FIVE OF THECROCODILE FACTOR STORY ENIGMA AROUND AN AFRICAN PYRAMID OR TREE Soon Come Next Week!... Stay on tune!... Thanks for your reading!... Respect To One & All…
WRITTEN BY D. JAHMAN DEIDO TREE
(Plainly corrected by empress J P)
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