Shownotes
In this story, our hero (here, a gender-free term) spins the stories of life, and encourages us to do the same.
Transcripts
Welcome to Guess the God.
Sea Gabriel:I'm Sea Gabriel with Mythic Deviant.
Sea Gabriel:In this podcast, I'll tell a story from the perspective of a character,
Sea Gabriel:usually a deity, liminal, or creature, though there may be some
Sea Gabriel:folk or legend characters as well.
Sea Gabriel:Some of these stories will be available in video form on my YouTube channel.
Sea Gabriel:And you can always check the Mythic Deviant website for clues.
Sea Gabriel:Tonight, I'm sharing a story that I did a while back.
Sea Gabriel:It is a redo, but it's just the right one to start with.
Sea Gabriel:I hope you enjoy.
Sea Gabriel:Once upon a time in the other world, I could be heard: from a
Sea Gabriel:million miles through the lushest trees, through the deepest oceans,
Sea Gabriel:through the highest mountains.
Sea Gabriel:My voice reverberates, as it creates.
Sea Gabriel:I told the tale of life.
Sea Gabriel:I sung it.
Sea Gabriel:I spoke it.
Sea Gabriel:I spun it.
Sea Gabriel:Then I watched.
Sea Gabriel:I watched and waited.
Sea Gabriel:And my witnessing concretized, the tales I told.
Sea Gabriel:There was a world, anew.
I spun it out of elements:
:fire, and ice and story.
I spun it out of elements:
:I tended it through the same.
I spun it out of elements:
:When it grew cold with stagnancy, I heated it up with the fire of passion and when
I spun it out of elements:
:it grew hot with violence, I cooled it with the gentle waters of comparison.
I spun it out of elements:
:Because life only survives in the middle temperatures.
I spun it out of elements:
:I told stories of fish first, walking from the seas, then leaping into
I spun it out of elements:
:the skies, and some grew legs while others grew wings, some chose to look
I spun it out of elements:
:entirely down and others only up.
I spun it out of elements:
:I told stories of transformation.
I spun it out of elements:
:I told stories of releasing what was no longer working and
I spun it out of elements:
:nurturing, what helps life thrive.
I spun it out of elements:
:I told stories of evolution.
I spun it out of elements:
:I told stories of love and loss and how one can not happen without the
other, stories of courage and fear:
:and how courage first embraces, then
other, stories of courage and fear:
:conquers, discomfort; and how fear first courts then becomes death.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I spun this world a yarn of paradox.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Then I wove it into a tapestry of story that will one day be cut from this loom.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I was bored, you see.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I was bored with my home and its...
other, stories of courage and fear:
:walls.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Like what did something that would break through them, that
other, stories of courage and fear:
:would co-create possibility.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I was bored with my eternal spinning.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I needed to spend something new: words, worlds.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I used my voice to call lightning, to meld ice into fire and to forge a new cosmos.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I grant that power to you.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:What tale will you tell with your life?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will it be one of fear where you cower in the shadows afraid of the characters you
other, stories of courage and fear:
:have written with your imagination and cast on your personal stage, forgetting
other, stories of courage and fear:
:that they are under your direction?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Or will it be one of courage where you will be frightened and uncomfortable
other, stories of courage and fear:
:until you learn that peace and victory are in your own center?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will it be one of compliance where you do what is asked of you
other, stories of courage and fear:
:and think that makes you right?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will it be one of creativity where you test the bounds of the possible
other, stories of courage and fear:
:and in doing so expand them?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will it be one of vice where you steal a life and defend it to the end?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Or one of virtue where you bow to your own ignorance and
other, stories of courage and fear:
:mistakes, but need no defense?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will you whisper in the shadows or sing from the hills?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Will you love with abandon, with caution, or not at all?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:How will you feel when you pay the price for that love or the lack of it?
other, stories of courage and fear:
:For all love has a price.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Life has a price.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:And love and life are really the same.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I paid a steep price for this story.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I watched silently sweeping up the shards of the broken, holding
other, stories of courage and fear:
:them in my bleeding hands.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I bear witness to my own creation.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Every heart that breaks as my own as is every heart that soars.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:Every abandoned dream is my own.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:As is every dream realized., Every cry of rage on a beautiful, bright day echoes
other, stories of courage and fear:
:in my body, as does every cry of joy bursting forth from the dark dismal night.
other, stories of courage and fear:
:I too have grown.
My courage has paid off:with you, in you.
My courage has paid off:My courage has expanded my dreams, and my nightmares.
My courage has paid off:It has broken my heart, and colored my soul.
My courage has paid off:It has seen me sobbing in the night then bursting forth with the dawn.
My courage has paid off:It has cost me peaceful moments and productive years.
My courage has paid off:It has opened me to grief and bliss.
