Shamanpunk 2020 part two

S: Now we live hear, we spinners of yarns, forever beautifying the tapestry of our lives.

I: So you work to improve yourselves?

S: That is so, but not with any ideal or fixed goal, with out a standard. Each of us seeking our own fulfillment of the story, and collectively weaving those stories into a shared mutually supportive tapestry. Even the ducks and the goats and the olive trees have their own genius to contribute to the tapestry.

I: And what is your position in all of this, as a shaman?

S: On no two days would I respond the same way to such a question. Today I am 'The Weaver of the Yarns of the Indefinite Tapestry' yesterday I was 'The One Who Sings with Goats'. But on all days I am called the Blue Shaman here, because of the role I play as the spinner of blue yarns. In the name of clarity, I make explicit that these yarns are stories.

I: I think that much was clear enough, though everything else is quite hazy.

S: The Tapestry of this place is the stories told amongst the life here. But not all stories are instantly compatible. The Blue Yarns are the stories that look for harmony and agreement between the most dissonant of notes.

I: Like that mixed metaphor.

S: Yet it works. To mix the metaphor still further, I am a translator, but never going so far as to strip each thread of its own uniqueness (lest I tempt the anger of the red sage). Translating the stories of the many spinners of this land into a form that can be interwoven. This not not imply that all stories are one story, and more then to suggest that all ways of life are one way. To search for such universals would strip so much of the uniqueness from each that nothing of worth could be preserved.

Everything acts out its role in the quest of its life, but also serves as secondary characters in the yarn of another. Every yarn in the rhizome can be connected to any other, and must be.

I: Wait, so you tie all the yarns together?

S: No, they are all always already connected, I simply make storys out of how they are connected.