TIES THAT BIND

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There is an actress, Camilla Belle, I saw in a movie, 10,000 B.C. playing a young woman named Evolet. Her people, the Yahahl lived in a remote and cold mountain range in the Urals surviving off of the hunt. Under the spiritual direction, and powers of the tribes’ Wise Woman, whom they respectfully called Old Mother, the men hunted woolly Mammoths. The White Spear, a prized possession given to the hunter who brought down the woolly Mammoth, motivated the men, and marked a hunter a man among men!

 

 The story, narrated by Omar Sharif, whom in his youth swelled the hearts of millions of women, and astonished men with his voice, and his elegance, tells of the intense love between young Evolet, and an orphaned boy, D’Leh. Others ridiculed the boy because they believed his father had abandoned the tribe out of fear, thus labeling his orphaned son a coward. During the hunt D’Leh kills the beast, and wins the White Spear, but in his sense of integrity young D’Leh thinks the accident he had that killed the Mammoth did not earn him the right to carry the coveted White Spear. Returning it to the man who took care of him, Tic Tic,  the previous carrier of the spear, he also loses Evolet, to whom he’d made a vow of commitment, and who came along with the prestige of the White Spear. His decision breaks her heart, and would have, had not the village been raided, and Evolet stolen, returned to him the shame and ridicule of his growing up years.

Receiving the blessing and the strength of Old Mother’s powers from her Dreamtime Medicines a small party of Yahahl men track the invaders through snow, a wet jungle, and a desert. There are many dangers faced from the land, and internally the ever evolving young D’Leh is learning, unlearning, and discovering who he is, and why his value system stands a contrast to the fellows he grew up with. He learns profound things about himself, and motivated by love discovers other dimensions of love village life might never have revealed to him. He learns who is father is and what his father planted within his son, at great cost to his own soul. The sacrifice, and the tenacity within his father and passed to his son spearhead a revolt within the boy shaking away the tentacles of old beliefs, old understandings. This emboldens him in an entirely new cultural setting in a dance to the death to capture, and embrace his beloved woman.

Both Evolet and D’Leh are children of prophecies. Their ordeal does not go unnoticed by Old Mother. She saw it all in her dreaming. Bound by a code of conduct unique to her craft since the beginning of ‘soul doctoring’ in the ancient past, the old Shaman held the words of her mouth and understanding allowing prophecies, or patterns to work themselves out into the design people and events flow into and from. It is a standard and a worldview Shamans carry silently within despite every obstacle and challenge unfathomable to the people, and communities they serve.

The story leads to the deep contradictions of powerful men over people, and finally the fact of bondage, of slavery comes to the forefront challenging love, and commitment! The young warrior is now leading tribes of men into a great city, and the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dilemma of bondage confronts him with a life and death choice. This level of combat is spiritual warfare, and the story presents the timeless dance of life-death-resurrection into the man D’Leh, and his woman Evolet with penetrating energies! Their souls marry through Death before they are married in the eyes of the state, which leads to two questions: What is Marriage? Is initiation fundamentally important to marriage? © Gregory E. Woods 11.04.12

actor Steven Strait as D'Leh in movie 10,000 B.C.

The name D'Leh is an anagram for "Held" which is the German, Dutch & Afrikaans word for hero.

Evolet held by D'Leh in movie 10,000 B.C.
The name Evolet is an anagram for "t(h)e love".
She is among the few survivors of her tribe, and unique for her blue eyes.