Carpathian 21 - Dark Peril

when my life was spinning downward,
    You caught me.
    I’d forgotten how to smile, but
    You re-taught me.

    My dream lover and lifemate,
    You know every part of me.
    We’re bound forever, soul to soul.
    You hold the very heart of me.

    I can never betray you.
    You can never part from me.
    In love forever, this life and next.
    You are the very heart of me.

    SOLANGE TO DOMINIC:

    Dreams

    My life was an anguish, my family ripped from me.
    My rage had sustained me. I’d given up hope.
    Tears fell in rain forest, heart bled in the blood-ground.
    My father betrayed me. I barely could cope.

    But then beyond hope, you came into my dream . . .
    Your melody haunting, your gentle voice healing.
    The soul of a poet, great heart of a warrior.
    You gave all for your people. Let me give you feeling!

    Questions

    Can you find beauty in this rough-hewn woman?
    Can you come to love a shapeshifter like me?
    Let my soft arms caress you, let our songs blend together.
    Let me stand by your side—let me set your heart free!
    Look at me—now see yourself through my eyes.
    Look at you: the perfect man of my dreams.
    You’re the calm in the storm, the most gentle power.
    In your hands, I’m a flower. Near you, my heart beams.

    Lifemates

    When you meet me,
    You complete me.
    You bring me back to life again.

    You reveal me. Then you heal me
    Of all the scars and strife.
    And when my life was spinning downward,
    You caught me.
    I’d forgotten how to smile, but
    You re-taught me.

    My dream lover and lifemate,
    You know every part of me.
    We’re bound forever, soul to soul.
    You hold the very heart of me.

    I can never betray you.
    You can never part from me.
    In love forever, this life and next.
    You are the very heart of me.

    MUSIC AND LYRICS BY DR. CHRISTOPHER TONG
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    APPENDIX 1

    Carpathian Healing Chants

    To rightly understand Carpathian healing chants, background is required in several areas: 1. The Carpathian view on healing

    2. The Lesser Healing Chant of the Carpathians

    3. The Great Healing Chant of the Carpathians

    4. Carpathian musical aesthetics

    5. Lullaby

    6. Song to Heal the Earth

    7. Carpathian chanting technique

    1. THE CARPATHIAN VIEW ON HEALING

    The Carpathians are a nomadic people whose geographic origins can be traced back to at least as far as the Southern Ural Mountains (near the steppes of modern-day Kazakhstan), on the border between Europe and Asia. (For this reason, modern-day linguists call their language “proto-Uralic,” without knowing that this is the language of the Carpathians.) Unlike most nomadic peoples, the wandering of the Carpathians was not due to the need to find new grazing lands as the seasons and climate shifted, or the search for better trade.
    Instead, the Carpathians’ movements were driven by a great purpose: to find a land that would have the right earth, a soil with the kind of richness that would greatly enhance their rejuvenative powers.

    Over the centuries, they migrated westward (some six thousand years ago), until they at last found their perfect homeland—their susu —in the Carpathian Mountains, whose long arc cradled the lush plains of the kingdom of Hungary. (The kingdom of Hungary flourished for over a millennium—making Hungarian the dominant language of the Carpathian Basin—until the kingdom’s lands were split among several countries after World War I: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and modern Hungary.) Other peoples from the Southern Urals (who shared the Carpathian language, but were not Carpathians) migrated in different directions. Some ended up in Finland, which accounts for why the modern Hungarian and Finnish languages are among the contemporary descendents of the ancient Carpathian language. Even though they are tied forever to their chosen Carpathian homeland, the wandering of the Carpathians continues as they search the world for the answers that will enable them to bear and raise their offspring without difficulty.

    Because of their geographic origins, the Carpathian views on healing share much with the larger Eurasian shamanistic tradition. Probably the closest modern representative of that tradition is based in Tuva (and is referred to as “Tuvinian Shamanism”)—see the map on the previous page.

    The Eurasian shamanistic tradition—from the Carpathians to the Siberian shamans—held that illness originated in the human soul, and only later manifested as various