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Waka​-​nunee​-​tuki​-​wuki (Renewal by Fire)

by Sun and Moon Dance

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This is the single version of Waka-nunee-tuki-wuki (Renewal by Fire). The album version will be a bit different. This single is to serve as a preview of how the new album "Walking A Spirit Dream" will sound.

Waka-nunee-tuki-wuki is one of the indigenous names of the Stratovolcano Mt. Shasta. Shasta has been a very important location for thousands of years for the people who inhabited what is now Northern California and Southern Oregon. The tribes continue to go there for ceremonies and healing ritual. Like other volcanoes in the area it was believed that to seek healing one would walk round and round the base of the mountain but one would never ascend to its peaks.

When I took my first glimpse of Mt. Shasta, I could not take my eyes off of her. She entranced me. It was because of Shasta that the course of my recent travels led me to delve deep into the medicine of the volcanoes. I mean that in a metaphysical and physical sense. I descended deep into old lava tubes and spent time being held in silence under the earth. I was reminded that the path to healing often times ugly and very violent. The power of these volcanoes cleared the landscape of all living things but over time a new ecosystem flourished from the pumice strewn across the landscape.
Not only did Shasta lead me to the volcanoes, she led me farther north and eventually through the Badlands and into the Pine Ridge Reservation where one of the feathers I was carrying wanted to go. I visited the site of Wounded Knee where hundreds of innocent Oglala Lakota men, women and children were slaughtered by the hands of the United States government just a little over 100 years ago. After reading "Black Elk Speaks" last year, I recounted Black Elks first hand experience right after the massacre happened. I felt like I could see the bodies strewn across the blood stained snow. The pain and sorrow that is still present in the indigenous populations of this country lingers across the landscape. Its one thing being told about what happened and its another when you actually go and visit these places. This country is very good at NOT talking about its history.
The song and album as a whole is about healing deep wounds. Its about bringing people together and acting out a beautiful vision that was given to humanity. We are the many roots of a great tree. This is a prayer to the Great Spirit that is believed to live within Mt. Shasta.

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Great Spirit rising from the mountain.
Hear me calling below thee.
Great Spirit weaver, in awe am I.
Healing mountain set me free.

Great Spirit rising from the mountain.
With cleansing fire...consuming
Burn free what binds me...renewing
Circling and circling... hear me.

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released October 19, 2023

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We're seed and tree with roots deep into earth and branches stretching to the heavens. We are the voice of creation…from the smallest of creatures to the mightiest of beasts. We are songs of dancing fire, whirling wind, flowing water and the standing stone. We are pain and sorrow woven into hope and beauty. We are forest and meadow… the mountain and river. We are what was and what is becoming. ... more

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