WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:17.079 You see somethings going to happen. What What's going to happen? What? 2 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:29.320 I welcome back to the Occult Rejects. Today's episode is 3 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.039 very very exciting for me. Actually, I have mentioned numerous 4 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.640 times on the show that I was very much interested 5 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:39.359 in Native American and tribal stuff. And I've even had 6 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.600 somebody in the past come on Thrash. He came on 7 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.679 and did I think in two or three parts series. 8 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.079 But I've been very interested in the Mickbax because of that, 9 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:50.799 and I had mentioned on the show a few times. 10 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.079 That I really wanted to cover that topic. I just 11 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.479 wasn't really willing to spend the time to do it myself, 12 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:57.359 and I didn't know anybody to really do it. 13 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.920 So Darlene happy to be listening and happened to hit. 14 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.200 Me up on Twitter and she was like, Oh, I 15 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.560 could definitely come on and cover the Midmax and this 16 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.159 and that, you know, from like experience in her own life. 17 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:10.799 I was like, wow, really, So I gave us some time. 18 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.239 She made us shit ton of slides and obviously has 19 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.760 a ton of notes as well, and she came She's 20 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.000 on the show today to present the slide Show for 21 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.159 the Mickmax, so very interesting stuff in there. I was 22 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.000 looking through some of the slides. I think for the 23 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.079 people into the occult you'll find this is very interesting. 24 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.319 One thing that I've said on the show before, and 25 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.879 I think this might help, you know, solidify my idea 26 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:39.840 and theory that you know, some secret societies or some 27 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.680 brands of occultism might have borrowed Native American symbolism as 28 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.560 well and used it. So it's just interesting to see 29 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.159 it come back around and like how it was like, 30 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.400 you know, a normal symbol for some people. Other people 31 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.280 have no idea what the hell it is, and it's 32 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:58.599 just weird. It's like how did that? How did that 33 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:02.599 disconnect happen? But it's wild, So, uh, you're very excited 34 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:02.840 for that. 35 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.879 Yeah. But before I. 36 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.159 Introduced Darlene, let me used to introduce Judith the Loon. 37 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:11.240 What is going on? Judith? 38 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:12.800 Hello? 39 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.280 Thank you for having me, Darlene. I can't wait to 40 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:20.759 see the what you've accumulated about this Native American tribe 41 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.479 and everybody else. You could catch me on YouTube and 42 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.199 on X as the Loon, and I'm also on Spreaker 43 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.360 as a normal podcast. 44 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:36.199 Thank you nice, nice great stuff and Darlene, what is 45 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:38.439 going on? How are you I guess letting you? I 46 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.960 guess let people know whatever you want to introduce yourself with. 47 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:48.599 Yeah, thanks Nick first, and hi Judith. So my name 48 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:52.599 is Darlene. And although my name is Santa Paz, that's 49 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.759 a MCMC name. I myself am not a MCMC. My 50 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.039 ex husband was Mick Mack. So I was married and 51 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.000 lived on the reservation for more than half my life, 52 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.759 and so I was really immersed in the culture. I 53 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:10.840 lived on the reservation, like I said, and my ex 54 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:16.159 husband was a practitioner of Native spirituality, and so was 55 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:19.840 his family, his father, his uncles, so they were all 56 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.879 pipe keepers, they were lodge keepers and sun dancers, and 57 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.719 so it was just very present in my life. 58 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.639 These legends were present. 59 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.199 Everything I'm going to talk about I saw with my 60 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:35.000 own eyeball. 61 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:37.319 You know, this was my experience. 62 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.560 And also when my husband was chief for a while, 63 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.919 we got to travel quite a bit and meet all 64 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.000 kinds of other tribes and all kinds of people and 65 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.280 see everything and museums and and so I have a 66 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.120 very unique kind. 67 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.199 Of experience through my lived experience. 68 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.479 And one other thing that we had, I wanted to 69 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:02.479 mention was on the Residenvation. About thirty years ago, we 70 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:08.439 had a tourist destination called the Micmac Experience, and you 71 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.120 could come and there was a museum, and there was 72 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.719 a little restaurant and a gift shop and canoe rentals, 73 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:16.920 and there. 74 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.279 Was also an actual. 75 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.199 Medicine man that would take you on a guided tour 76 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.560 and talk about many of the things I want to 77 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.680 talk about tonight. So this is kind of the basis 78 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.959 of my knowledge and experience of the Makemac. So, yeah, 79 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:34.439 that's what I want us to start with. 80 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.439 I mean, you lived it for a long time. I 81 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:37.079 lived around it. 82 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:41.879 I mean yeah, I've seen the ceremonies, Like even to 83 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.199 this day, I still smudge every day. 84 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:52.120 Oh nice, okay, yeah, yeah. 85 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.480 So we can start. You can bring up the slides 86 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:55.279 if you want. 87 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.360 Yes, slides, look at this correct. 88 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:58.519 Let's have questions about me. 89 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:01.759 All the Micmac. 90 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:07.480 Indeed, so we're gonna look at who are the Micmac, 91 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:12.279 what are their beliefs, their folklore, their customs, mythologies and practices, 92 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.319 and why they've been so important throughout history. We will 93 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.720 find that from the Vikings the French, to the Knights, Templar, 94 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:25.399 the Jesuits and even the Mormons. The Macmac nation has 95 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.839 been woven into the many stories, histories, and the fabric 96 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:34.519 of North America. So their origins go far as far 97 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.399 back as the mound builders before them. They adapt well 98 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:42.360 to newcomers and are well experienced and practiced in diplomacy. 99 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.920 Their legacy endures, yet few know them. If we can 100 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:52.600 try to imagine what history looked like from the shores 101 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.439 of Migamagi, which is the mcmac land, who would we 102 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:01.160 witness landing on the shores over the centuries. What does 103 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.480 history look like through the lens of the Micmac, And 104 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.279 who and where are the mcmac today. So we're gonna 105 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:12.399 look at Oh, so we'll look at the slide. So 106 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.560 the people they're known as the people of the Dawn, 107 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.519 the keepers of the Eastern Door, and it's also been 108 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:23.120 called the Eastern Gate. Now there's not a strict determination 109 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:26.040 of what that means, but I have a theory of 110 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.360 what I think it means. Because of where the mouth 111 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.160 of the Saint Lawrence River is, which is mcmac territory, 112 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:39.000 which enters right into the center of North America. It 113 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.600 was their sort of duty to guard that portal or entry. 114 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:48.879 That's my theory. And they were also called the children 115 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.240 of the Light. They were the first men to greet 116 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:58.399 grandfather's son niscom every day. They occupy the eastern provinces 117 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:03.240 of Canada as well as Maine, and the territory later 118 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.680 became known as Acadia with the arrival of the French 119 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.959 in sixteen oh four. And at the bottom, I had 120 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:14.079 an interesting note that I kept seeing. The British were 121 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:16.399 known to call them the tarantines, and I'm not sure 122 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.199 what that means or why they called him that, but 123 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.480 I thought it was quite common. And the picture I 124 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.439 think is really interesting. You can see he has two 125 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.720 red crosses, so this is called Lama Cardien. And this 126 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.519 is a depiction of actually a Mick MacMahon, and you 127 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.120 can see us. I don't know if it's tattoos or 128 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:42.680 just drawings of two red crosses, a son and two 129 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.720 serpents on his chest. 130 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:46.319 So I thought that looked pretty cool. 131 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:51.800 And these are done by a guy named Jacques Grasse 132 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.839 de Saint Sava in the late seventeen hundreds. 133 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.959 He was a graphic designer known for producing. 134 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:04.120 These hand colored engravings of North American Indians. So that's 135 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.680 the mcmac man or Acadian man. So you can go 136 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:18.800 to the next line there. So, the mcmac are the 137 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:23.480 easternmost native tribe in Canada. Their traditional territory consists of 138 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:27.959 the maritime provinces. There's five tribes that make up the 139 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:34.120 Wabi Naki confederacy, which predates the European arrival. They're known 140 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.600 as the people. Yeah, I read that already. So traditionally 141 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.639 they were semi nomadic hunter gatherers, renowned for their basket 142 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:46.799 making skills, their birch park canoes, as well as the 143 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.639 art of porcupine quill crabs. 144 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:49.639 Uh. 145 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:53.600 Their knowledge of medicines and plants was highly regarded and 146 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.279 eagerly studied by early settlers, and. 147 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.360 They were known to keep a lot of their medicine. 148 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.120 On birch bark scrolls, which the modern medicine society still uses. 149 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:10.600 So this depiction here shows the traditional dress of the Micmac. 150 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.679 The woman is seated and wearing the traditional peaked hat, 151 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:20.399 peaked cap, and traditional ribbon dress, and the gentleman is 152 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.039 wearing what's called the captain's coat or the chief's coat. 153 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.440 It's called the captain's coat because it seems that it 154 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:33.200 was originally gifted by a French captain and adapted by 155 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:41.039 all the chiefs and decorated with their traditional motifs. Interesting, 156 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.240 you can go to the next slide. So there's a 157 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.840 close up of the peak cap, which is it's Algonquin 158 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.799 tribes are known to wear these cats, but the micmac 159 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.279 one is unique and it's it's quite like. 160 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.840 The freezing cap we see on the right. 161 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:08.519 And there's the Frisian cap also at the top, and 162 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:13.720 I included the bottom right, the little red cap is 163 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:21.159 the French Revolution cap, so that would have been you 164 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:25.879 can see kind of a lineage through Europe and France 165 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.639 of this cap moving to the west somehow. 166 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.360 I'll show you in the next You. 167 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:33.639 Said the same thing with that Jackson, the same thing 168 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:34.320 with that jack. 169 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.159 Yeah. Interesting, I'll show the next slide, will show and 170 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.440 there's smurfy by the way, because he wears a Frisian 171 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.279 cap too. He's smurfing. Okay, yeah, you can go to 172 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.399 the next So this is a closed up of a 173 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:53.159 chief coat that was gifted to Captain Henry o'hallahan and 174 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.240 was made a mcmac Honorary Chief in eighteen forty one. 175 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.840 Traditional for Galia would have included a sash at the 176 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:07.919 waist and leggings, and male headdress would consist of a 177 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:12.799 headband decorated with feathers, so not like the Western Plains 178 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.960 Indian big headdress that we think of sometimes. 179 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.039 These are mostly. 180 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:24.919 More narrow and straight up with a headband. And it 181 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.399 said that pre European styles were such to be similar 182 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.360 but crafted with skins. The Micmac were eager to trade 183 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:36.279 furs for cloths and quickly gain mastery in decorating and 184 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.639 embellishing them. So they were wild about cloth and they 185 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:44.240 loved the ease at with which they could decorate them, 186 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:46.240 and so they became very decorated. 187 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.679 That is dope, right, that is pretty cool. 188 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.440 So the next the bottom one there is an actual 189 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:02.639 captain's coat, so you can see kind of the the 190 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:07.080 original version and the Micmac version eventually. And then the 191 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:08.440 top one so. 192 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:10.320 For sure. 193 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.799 Yeah, and the little brown cap up there that was 194 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.159 a French sailor's cap, which also is reminiscent of that 195 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:27.080 French Revolution cap and the Friesian cap. Again we can 196 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:31.559 go to the next line. So there I have a 197 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:34.720 map just in case people aren't familiar with the Maritimes. 198 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.039 So the green part is New Brunswick, that blue part 199 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:43.519 is Nova Scotia, the red part is Prince Edward Island. 200 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:45.799 And so there's the flag. 201 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:46.759 Oh hey, Old World. 202 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.279 So the flag at the bottom we just saw on 203 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:57.480 Old World. Micmac's logo is the Micmac Grand Council Tribe. 204 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.960 Now it is an exact mirror. 205 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:05.480 All of the Templar flag. So the Templar flag, the 206 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.039 star and the moon are inversed. 207 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:16.559 That's a little that's interesting. What's that? 208 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:21.480 So we can go to the next slide. 209 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.200 Now for the next parts. I'm just gonna be honest. 210 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:31.759 I am not fluent in Mick Mac. A lot of 211 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.960 these words I've learned and heard throughout my life, but 212 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.519 I'm not fluent, and my pronunciation I apologize in advance. 213 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:44.720 I'm gonna do my best. So these these are sacred symbols, 214 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:49.200 often seen the most significant ones in Mick Mac culture. 215 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.840 So we have the eight point at star, which we 216 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:56.759 see everywhere still today like Grandma's will make blankets with 217 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.879 the eight pointed star. A lot of decorations have the 218 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.720 eight pointed star. And the next we have the pipe, 219 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:09.879 which is it's a sacred object for sure. Next to 220 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.679 that we have the medicine wheel with the same four 221 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.679 sacred colors. And this is a teaching tool. This has 222 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:22.039 many many lessons to teachers used for the four seasons. 223 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:25.320 At the bottom, we have the four medicines. There's lots 224 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.360 of lessons there. And so the four medicines at the 225 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:35.600 bottom are sage, cedar, sweet grass, and tobacco. And so 226 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:42.000 these are used for offerings like for smudging, and they're 227 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.799 used for making prayer flags and prayer ties as well 228 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.679 for ceremonies. Anytime you want to ask one of the 229 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:49.360 nature for. 230 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.879 Something, you give one of these as an offering. 231 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.639 Do you know the breakdown for the colors those four 232 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:59.120 sacred colors please as well? 233 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.960 Like the different means tribe for the. 234 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:09.759 Wheel or there's like a million different uh explanations, Like 235 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:15.279 there's directions. Each one represents a direction, each one represents medicine, 236 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:22.480 each one represents people like races, elements, and and they'll 237 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:27.799 use these objects to teach any of these lessons. Does 238 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:28.480 that make sense? 239 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.720 Yeah, thank you? 240 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:31.120 Okay? 241 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:31.919 Yeah. 242 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.240 Also basically also like the chemical colors too, isn't it. 243 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:45.279 I'm sorry, Yeah, the chemical chemical colors. Yeah, like the 244 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:51.919 Albato rubato and cintronet whatever, the citrine type of Yeah, yeah, 245 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.919 that's that's the same colors too. 246 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.679 Huh. And didn't you say that the Golden Dawn. Was 247 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.279 it the colors or just the shape? 248 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.559 Yeah, something with the pentacle. I think it's very close 249 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:04.360 to those colors. 250 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:10.039 Okay, yeah, so yeah, these are these colors are are 251 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:17.840 seen in many motifs and like designs, in dresses, ribbon dresses, 252 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.399 ceremonial items, stuff like that. 253 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.240 Just real quick, instead of the white, there would be 254 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.600 a green and that would be the golden door pencable. 255 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:36.960 Okay, okay, yeah, so oh so this is. 256 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:39.120 In the beginning. 257 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:43.080 This is the creation story, the Micmac creation story. So 258 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.200 there are seven levels or worlds of creation in the 259 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.360 mcmac world, and it begins with the Creator. 260 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.080 His name is Gizuk and he's. 261 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.559 The giver of life. Next comes the sun Nis come 262 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:01.279 he's called Grandfather, and he's the giver of shadow, which 263 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:05.079 is really important, okay in Micmac culture, because your shadow 264 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.920 accompanies you your whole life, and your shadow is your 265 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.400 connection to the ancestors. So in a bit I'm gonna 266 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:18.160 talk about the cosmology of the Micmac world, but in 267 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.160 the shadow is your connection to all of your ancestors. 268 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:23.960 It's kind of like a Peter. 269 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.440 Pan portal in a way, if that makes any sense. 270 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:33.079 It's very important. Next week get to Earth, which is Utsigamu, 271 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:40.079 the place where we stand, and the drums signifies her heartbeat. 272 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.039 Next came glues Cap. Now I don't know if everybody's 273 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.319 familiar with him or not, but he's like the hero 274 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.440 character of the micmac. He's a teacher, he's a leader, 275 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.599 he's a magician, and I'm gonna talk about him a 276 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.920 whole lot more in a bit. And he represents the 277 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:07.079 East direction. Then came grandmother Nukumi. She represents wisdom. She 278 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:10.720 was born of the rocks and she represents self direction. 279 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:17.079 Next came nephew Nedawansen. He is strength. He's born of 280 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:22.559 the sea foam and he represents West. And last came Mother. 281 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.920 She is love. She's born of a leaf and she 282 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.640 represents North. And so that item on the right there, 283 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.839 that's a coin that was minted by the Royal Canadian 284 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:40.519 mint that depicts the mcmac creation story, and it has 285 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:45.400 the eight pointed star with seven stars around it in 286 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.240 the center there with the moose, and there on the 287 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.440 left we can see gluse Cap with his feather and 288 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:55.599 the lightning. We can see the mother at the top 289 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.240 with her leaf. We can see grandmother at the bottom 290 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.720 and Nedawansen in the west. 291 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:05.240 So that's great. 292 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:09.519 Yeah, you can go to the next the ape when 293 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:14.720 it's star the stars surrounding it was is each of 294 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.559 those stars meant for each of the tribes, the different 295 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:19.559 tribes in that area. 296 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:25.599 Yeah. Actually, I think the next fly talks about the 297 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.960 number seven. So and because the number seven is really 298 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:33.480 really important. Yeah, it's the number for Macmac. So it's 299 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.720 a sacred and significant number. You get the sacred the 300 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:42.680 seven sacred directions. You have east, southwest, north, above, below, 301 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.759 and center. You have the seven worlds of creation. You 302 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:54.319 have the seven sacred teachings, which are love, respect, honesty, courage, wisdom, truth, 303 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:59.880 and humility. The seven districts, the seven finest prophecy, which 304 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.240 is an end Times prophecy. 305 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.400 We have the seven sacred parts of the. 306 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.400 Head, which are the two ears, the two eyes, the 307 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.759 two nostrils, and the mouth. The seven sisters, which are 308 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:18.000 the seven stars of pladies. There's lots of legends concerning those, 309 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:21.559 and also the seven sparks of the Sacred fire, which 310 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:25.440 again I'll get into that with the gluose cap legend. 311 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:27.359 So seven is. 312 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:36.720 All over the place. Oh, here we go. Here's the 313 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.160 creatures and beasts of the Micmac world. So the world 314 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:49.599 of the Micmac was inhabited by a variety of goblins, cannibals, magicians, witches, elves, fairies, dwarfs, 315 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:51.920 and even mermaids. 316 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:00.119 They have their own history that's similar to fairies, but most. 317 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:02.720 Oh, they have all of it. Yeah, they like nature's 318 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:09.160 spirits are more elementals, maybe because there's like the mermaids, 319 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.039 for instance, those are water spirits, so they have the 320 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:17.960 ability to manipulate the element if that makes sense. 321 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.319 Yeah. 322 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.680 Yeah, So that one of the more popular ones and 323 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:28.759 scary is the Chinu. He's a giant ice cannibal with 324 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:33.000 an icy heart. Well, his his heart turns to ice 325 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.359 when he becomes chinu in the shape of a human man. 326 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.880 And then to kill this Chinu you have to you 327 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:46.599 have to make him throw up this icy heart and 328 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.480 then throw it in a fire. They're similar to the 329 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:56.039 wendigos of the Western tribes and traditions. Then we have 330 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.480 boot a lot of moods. Those are stone dwarfs and 331 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:03.680 they're Simil or two like the little gnome at the 332 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:04.279 top there. 333 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.359 They're they're kind of playful characters. They're the little people. 334 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.680 And they live in in the forests and they have 335 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:16.960 little tiny canoes and they have stories of children coming 336 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:20.640 upon them and the bu Lata mood inviting them into 337 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:24.160 the canoe. And so the children, of course are way bigger, 338 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.200 and they say, we can't get in there because the 339 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:29.720 whole canoe will tip, and they say, oh, get in, 340 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.319 And as soon as that they put one foot in, 341 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:35.359 they start shrinking to the size of the little people. 342 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:41.720 So they have magical powers. And actually they're still very 343 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:46.079 present in modern culture. Like I when I was my 344 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:48.079 kids were growing up, everybody talks. 345 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.000 About Boodhlata mooch. 346 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.119 If something went missing in your house, you blame budd 347 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.480 Lata mooch if it or they move it. Sometimes you 348 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:58.240 look for something and then you find it somewhere else. 349 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.440 They play tricks on you. They still talk about that. 350 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:04.640 I'm gonna date myself, but it almost sounds like the 351 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:08.480 sours of a little cartoon. Unless you grew up in 352 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.279 the eighties, you don't know this. Cartoons called the Littles. 353 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:16.119 Oh, I remember the littles, yes, little. 354 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:20.440 So I'm wondering if this was like the you know, 355 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.279 the prototype for them to come up with that cartoon. 356 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:30.200 The Chicken or the Egg. Maybe, I'm not sure. So 357 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.000 then we have the Guques, who is a hairy man 358 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:34.759 eating ogre. 359 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:39.640 He is half man, half beast. 360 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:42.079 And is known to carry away children in a basket 361 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:48.039 on his back. That creature at the bottom corner is Screctamo, 362 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.119 So he's the ghost of an evil sorcerer. He's a 363 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:57.440 revenant and undead and he's a vampire. He lives in 364 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:01.759 ghost World, which I'm going to talk about soup. Then 365 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.920 we have sabawel New which are the mermaids. These are 366 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:10.839 nature spirits and they're called halfway people people of the water, 367 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:18.359 and they're alluring and dangerous. We have Jipijum, which is 368 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:22.359 the horned sea serpent. Now this is a creature that 369 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:25.079 can be as small as a worm or as big 370 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:25.680 as a whale. 371 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:26.759 He's a shape shifter in. 372 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:31.519 Size and he will show up at the end times. 373 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.880 And then we have Wimpy who's a giant magician and 374 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:39.640 enemy of gluse Cat. There's so many legends of these two, 375 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:43.839 like messing around and trying to trying to off each other, 376 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:53.920 and so they're like mortal enemies forever. So we can 377 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:55.039 go to the next line if. 378 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:55.720 You want, I do. 379 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:58.599 I don't have to ask a question before you get 380 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:01.759 because especially decide We're gonna have a. 381 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.799 Lot of questions. But it. 382 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:10.559 I'm trying to figure out whether a lot of these, uh, 383 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:15.599 the historical depictions were influenced by the French, because they're 384 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:17.000 they're up in Canada. 385 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:20.079 Correct the French are, yes, for sure? 386 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:21.599 Me know this. 387 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:26.799 The tribe is originally from up up there, the big Mac. Yes, yeah, 388 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:29.519 in the so I'm trying to figure out the influence 389 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.559 that they had. Did the French have the influence or 390 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:35.400 did it? When they got together, it was like the 391 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:36.880 French was sharing their. 392 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.519 Their well, they loved each other. The French and the 393 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.880 make Mac were very friendly for for a century and 394 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:50.640 a half. They had what was known as treaties of 395 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:56.000 peace and friendship. They were known to intermary uh and 396 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:01.960 had a long term peaceful relationship and ship with each other. 397 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.680 So a lot of cultural exchanges. That's why we see 398 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:09.920 the clothing of the chief slowly becoming quite French appearing. 399 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:16.839 Oh thanks, old girl, most yeah, I said, give me 400 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:22.960 a break. Yeah, I forgot what I was saying before 401 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:27.480