An egg-shaped face alternates between two expressions, two moods: Fear and Fire.

It's the Cosmic Egg.

The Egg is in a vast rounded-cubic hall, with walls of silver-gray energy, near a God or high spirit. In the hall are persons pertaining to the Egg. First: a Lady in an ovoid energy field who has seen the egg before. Did she lay it? I don't think she was the moon goddess, but she's still called Luna. Second: a gray birdlike creature made of energy. Third: one true bird flying. Fourth: a purple coruscation in the air. The fifth is me! I know them all.

The egg hatches, and I come out! The egg was me. The others tell me each of their relationships to me. (This felt vitally important--regretted for years that I couldn't recall what they told me).

The gray Energy Bird begins to chase the True Bird, and Luna follows both. The True Bird somehow flies through a wall that no material being should be able to penetrate. The Energy Bird follows easily of course, then Luna...

I, who now realize I'm the true True Bird, am given the grace to be the Energy Bird every midnight.

And I fly off, being energy.

• Energy Bird = though I didn't know it till years later, this is a classic image of a shaman's soul-flight.
• Every midnight, at the witching hour = Dreaming! Predicts the route I took over the next twenty years to become a shaman: dreams.
• Fear and Fire = an elaborate dream-pun. Tolkien's hobbits have a horn-call that means "Fear! Fire! Foes!" the unspoken joke being that our fairytale giants chanting "FEE, FIE, FOE!" are an ancient legacy from hobbit tales: how they warned of REAL giants. That is, us.

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