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The Wayne, which was One, became the Twayne, who were separated at birth. One was Bilwit, who was raised to become a leader of his folk. The other was Wildiar, who was left to become a feral wild man of the wood.
When they were of an age, they both felt the other out there somewhere, and that they needed to find him, this twin brother, and so be reunited with him: the Light and the Dark, the Aerial and the Chthonic, the High and the Deep.
Bilwit had heard of a wild man whom some had gone to for help in runisch matters, and he decided to seek him out himself. He found him at the threshhold of the Dark Forest, living rough. This Wildiar was intent, like a predator toward his prey, and weird of mien, but he greeted his brother and offered him the hospitality of his humble camp, and said that he had expected him.
The two brothers could not be more different, and alien of each other. But as they met in moot, they began to become more like to each other, and came somehow to fit to the other as if they were a well-matched team. But as a team they felt they lacked a Wain to draw, and a Driver.
Wildiar, who knew of uncanny things, said they must go far into the Wilderness until they came upon the Midsted of the Deepness, where they would find a treasure meant for them alone.
And so with the wit of Bilwit and the skill of Wildiar, they made a wending way through the Dark Forest until they arrived at the very spot, of strong numinosity: a glade where sat a huge round gem of greengold glow, set in a hump of weathered mossy rock.
It was the Lodestone, a lump of crystalized Samen-flowod formed in the Womb of the Wolken, the misty Mind of Nature. It was shapen like to the Wykewyzen Sinnbild and had been begot to answer the threat to the Edhli of the depredations of Man.
This much was vouchsafed to them both when the Stone had come freely away into their hands and they saw then that it had drawn them to find it. But now it sealed their wayneness, and as a perfect team, they at last had their Wain to draw: the Lode. But who then to drive? (to be continued)
Sunstede(OEng)= solstice. Sagen= mythic tale.
Wayne= the One, Whole. Twayne= the Twins.
Bilewit(OEng)= innocent, pure, simple, sincere, mild, gentle, merciful, gracious, blithe.
Wildiar= 'wild animal'. Chthonic= of the earth, the underworld.
Wain= wagon, chariot.
Runisch= weird, mystic.
Midsted= center.
Lodestone= guide-stone.
Samen-flowod= the vital fluid.
Wolken(Ger)/Wolcen(OEng)= cloud.
Wykewyzen Sinnbild= Ecology symbol (Ger. Sinnbild).
Edhli= the Biosphere.
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