~~the following is an abreviated and shorted version of the story. I appologise to any Native Americans out there that may see this if they feel I cut it too short~~ "One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the OcetiShadowin, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Oyate, the nation, came together and camped. The sun shone all the time, but there was no game and the people were starving. Every day they sent the scouts to look for game, but they found nothing. Early one morning two young men went to hunt for game. They went on foot, because at that time the Lakota did not have horses. They searched everywhere but found nothing. Seeing a high hill they decided to climb up it to look over the country. Halfway up they saw something coming toward them from far off, but the person was floating rather than walking. From this they knew that the person was wakan (holy). At first they could make out only a small moving speck and had to squint to see that it was a beautiful young woman, more beautiful than they had ever seen. She wore a beautiful white buckskin outfit tanned till it shone a long way in the sun. This wakan stranger was Ptesan-Wi, White Buffalo Woman. In her hands she carried a large bundle and a fan of sage leaves. The two men looked at her open mouthed. One was overawed but the other desired her body and stretched his hand out to touch her. This woman was lila wakan, very sacred and could not be treated with disrespect. Lightning instantly struck the brash young man and burned him up so that only a small heap of blackened bones were left, or some say that he was suddenly covered by a cloud, and within it he was eaten up by snakes that left only his skeleton, just as a man can be eaten up by lust. To the other scout who behaved rightly, the White Buffalo Woman said, Good things I am bringing to your nation. A message I carry for your people from the buffalo nation. Go back to camp and prepare for my coming. Tell your chief to put up a medicine lodge with twenty four poles. Let it be made holy for my arrival. The young hunter returned to camp. He told the chief and the people what she had commanded. So the people prepared the lodge and awaited her. After four days they saw her approaching with her bundles. Halting before the chief, she now opened the bundle. The holy thing it contained was the chanunpa, the sacred pipe. The White Buffalo Woman showed the people how to use the pipe, how to pray, and how to live. And on her departing, great heards of buffalo showed themselves so that the people could eat." This is just my representation of this most sacred of stories. I hope everyone enjoys. Featured in this image is Washaka "The Redux" for V3 which is now available at Poser Pros. -------------------------------------- Washaka "The Redux"------DanaanD(PP) DreamWalker for V3------Lady Littlefox(RDNA)