(Alright yall your boy Jeremiah here, and it was very nice coming here with Unc. I have gotten to learn so much about the Navajo people and what they are like. I was even told that they had used Navajo code talkers in the United States Army in World War II, and that’s saying something else let me tell ya, but they are a proud tribe, and it was an honor for me to come here. I was glad that Unc brought me here.
So it’s a hot sunny day and I am in a tank top and jean shorts, and tennis shoes. My Emme is in a nice yellow sundress with pretty flowers on it and sandals, and we are given a tour of the reservation by Mrs. Nighthawk, the wife of my unc’s friend, who is a sexy woman in her own right. As it is my first time at a Navajo reservation, I learn about the Navajo people.
She first shows us the weavings of the Navajo people with quilts and other stuff, and knowing my Emme has been on a Navajo reservation before, but I haven’t, but I still find the weavings fascinating. Yeah, I am fascinated by how the stuff is done. I’m not just young, I also want to see new stuff, and try new things, ya know.)
Maria: What do you think Jeremiah? Aren’t these weavings pretty? This one was done by Apollo’s grandfather Chief Red Hawk, and it never seizes to amaze me how amazing this one turned out to be.
Jeremiah: It is very fascinating. I think Unc showed me something like this at his house. He told me it was a gift from Chief Red Hawk after he did his sweat lodge thing. It’s still in good condition I think.
Diamond: I remember when I did my sweat lodge. A man by the name of John Whitefeather presided over mine. It is a necessary thing to do If you want to become a shaman, which Mr. Whitefeather was.
Jeremiah: You did a sweat lodge my love? What was your spirit animal?
(Yeah, I am learning about my mon amour as I go here folks. It still surprises me that she had been on a Navajo reservation for her shaman training, but It don’t matter to me, I love her just the same, and I wouldn’t want to be with no one else.)
Diamond: Mine is a mountain lion.
(I smirk as I am thinking it’s no wonder she’s an animal in bed. My Emme sees this smirk and then punches me in the arm. Maria just stands there and laughs a bit, and shakes her head. I rub my arm as she can throw quite a punch.)
Diamond: You will have to forgive him. He can still have the mind of a teenage boy that’s just getting interested in girls, but other than that, he’s a sweetheart and a gentleman.
Maria: It’s quite alright. Jeremiah, did you want to do a sweat lodge? You have to be certain if you want to do one, because it is something we take seriously here. It is sacred like the hogans you see around here.
Jeremiah: If you think I am ready to do one, I wouldn’t mind doing one.
Maria: You will have to be the one who is ready Jeremiah. You do not need our opinions with something like this. Only if you think you are ready.
Jeremiah: If you do not mind me asking a few questions about it first. First, what exactly is a sweat lodge? Is it something like a sauna?
Maria: It’s something like that, but we use sweat lodges for purification ceremonies. Some sweat lodges are huts like the hogans, but are domed and are used with natural materials. Some of us dig holes in the ground and put tree trunks or wooden planks.
Diamond: I think my sweat I did had the hole in the ground if I can remember correctly. It has been a while since mine was done.
Maria: We use the domed structure here. We preferred that over the hole in the ground. I will show you the sweat lodge structure we use.
Jeremiah: Has anyone died from doing this?
Maria: Yes, but very very few have because of overexposure to the heat, smoke inhalation, or suffocation. Last I had heard, only ten had died due to sweat lodges, so it’s a minute rarity that people have died from sweat lodges, but seeing how fit, and as young as you are, I think you will do just fine.
Jeremiah: Ok. That’s reassuring enough. I am ready to go thru with the sweat. I really do, knowing the risks, and the spiritual reward that comes with it, I want to go thru with it.
Maria: Great. I will have to talk to Chief Red Hawk about it, so it might be a little later on today before you can get your sweat done. So I hear you have a wrestling event here in Phoenix.
Jeremiah: Yeah we do. I wrestle for Sin City Wrestling, and Unc and I are in the event this week. What do you think of the company? Do you like the company? I love wrestling for it. Great competition, and its great wrestling with my unc. He knows the business and I was trained by him.
Maria: Apollo and I watch it when we are not busy. I saw your match at that PPV, and you faced two very outstanding wrestlers. I was kind of shocked though how you and your uncle handled the loss. Did frustration set in?
Jeremiah: Yeah, we weren’t proud of it. I know it comes with the territories, but we faced two wrestlers we have nothing but the utmost resepct for, and we got mad and attacked them after the match. It was definitely frustrations from losing ‘cause we wanted to get our tag team off to a good start. We did apologize to them on Twitter and told them how we felt about them, and how much we respected them and all that.
Maria: That’s definitely good there. Apollo definitely knows how that can be, and he’s only let his temper get the best of him only twice, and he does have quite a temper. He’s quite protective of me and one time I got beat up by one of his opponent’s after the match because the opponent was a sore loser, and Apollo crushed his head like a grapefruit. Well, not literally, but you get the idea.
Diamond: I know not to anger him.
Maria: Other than that though, he keeps his temper in check. So who are you two facing Jeremiah?
Jeremiah: Two British twits that think that going to the zoo and looking at the tigers and comparing them to us when it comes to being endangered is going to scare us. Those two remind me of the British guys that you see on that show Family Guy. You know, the only drive-bys they do are drive-by disagreements?
Maria: Yeah. You know, I bet your uncle is so sick and tired of seeing something like that, because it’s being overused. I know I get sick and tired of it when Apollo’s opponents use the casino shtick on Apollo. He gets so sick of it, and so do I.
Jeremiah: I get sick of it too. I mean c’mon, is that the best they got? “Oh look Rupert Rottenbottom, look at the tigers. Look how big they are. I have a smashing idea. Let’s use this against our opponents this week. Let’s see how unoriginal we can be.†I mean c’mon, and they have the nerve to compare me with the bigger tiger? I can’t be that big can I?
Diamond: Hells no baby, and look at who they got with them, one of those ratchet bitches from the Mean Girls. I mean how much makeup do you really need to get yourself ready for a wrestling match. This is professional wrestling, not Hollywood, not the runway in Paris, although I think Delia Darling has the worst French accent I have ever heard.
Jeremiah: All I know is that I can’t wait to put my foot up their asses this Sunday. IT would give me, Unc, and the SCW fans nothing more than a thrill to see us put the beat down on those two silly nannies and for their ratchet mascot to witness first-hand the beat down that they will receive. Man I can’t wait to send those two back to Great Britain crying to their mommas and daddies.
Maria: We definitely got our tickets and since Apollo doesn’t have a match this week, we can see it first-hand. Let’s go see Chief Red Hawk, and see if we can’t get you set up for a sweat. Do you still want to go thru with it, considering the risk involved?
Jeremiah: Yeah I do. Hell, I endured the heat in Iraq and Afghanistan in camo. I want to do this.
(Diamond smiles and hugs me from the side. I hug her back, and we head to where Chief Red Hawk is.)
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(We head to the direction of chief Red Hawk, and Maria stops to ask a fellow Navajo of the reservation where he is. The Navajo tells her that he is presiding over a ceremonial rain dance. The fellow Navajo leads them to the spot where the rain dance is held, and we get to witness a rain dance. Maria sees some umbrellas and it indeed starts to rain. Maria smiles as the rain is quiet and soothing.)
Maria: A female rain is falling upon us. She is greeting us with her soothing presence.
Jeremiah: A female rain? I didn’t know you classified them with gender.
Maria: Absolutely. The female rain as we are witnessing right now is soothing and calmer. The male rain is stronger and more windy and you can usually see lightning and hear the thunder in a male rain. What we had witnessed is called a rain turtle which is the ritual that is done to call forth the rain.
(When the rain dance is done, we make our way to Chief Red Hawk who is in ceremonial gear.)
Chief Red Hawk: Maria my dear granddaughter in law. What brings you to me.
Maria: Chief Red Hawk, this is Jeremiah Hardin, and his love Morganna. Jeremiah would like to have a purification ceremony done. Morganna has had hers done by John Whitefeather.
Chief Red Hawk: Ahh, John Whitefeather. He is a good friend of mine, and an amazing shaman. I understand that you trained under him in the arts of magic correct?
Diamond: Yes sir. He was a great man to train under, and he was a favorite as he was kind, and I loved him so much.
Chief Red Hawk: What was your spirit animal?
Diamond: It was a mountain lion sir.
Chief Red Hawk: Very good. Jeremiah, do you really want to go thru with this. I presided over your uncle’s purification ceremony.
Jeremiah: Yes sir. Maria has told me everything about it, including the risks, and I would like to go thru with it, and it would be an honor if you would preside over mine.
Chief Red Hawk: Very well. Follow me to the sweat lodge then. There you will be purified, and you will also find what your spirit animal is as well.
(We all follow Chief Red Hawk to the sweat lodge. It is indeed a hut looking structure as Maria has told me. It stands across from a sacred fire that was lit. I do everything that is required before I head in to the sweat lodge. Four hours later I come back out with a new sense of being. When I do come out, Unc and Apollo join the group.)
Maria: Well Jeremiah, how do you feel?
Jeremiah: Like I was reborn and the depression I once had is like a distant memory now.
Diamond: Did you find out what your spirit animal was?
Jeremiah: I don’t know, but part of it I felt like a tiger was talking to me in a female’s voice, like Mom’s voice or something like that telling me that everything will be ok.
(Unc smiles and I look at him like what is he smiling at.)
Chief Red Hawk: There’s your spirit animal Jeremiah, just like your uncle’s.
Jeremiah: Neat, and I feel like I lost a few pounds too. So that was all there was to it. I know it is sacred to you guys, and I will always cherish it as it was one of my fondest of memories.
(Apollo pats me on the back.)
Apollo: We know you will Jeremiah. C’mon everybody, Sebastian and I have prepared dinner for everyone.
(We all head back to the center of the reservation as the scene ends.)
[end RP]
