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The Tale of Two Magicians: Possessing Demons

In an unknown desert that spread throughout a thousand-mile stretch, there is the tale of two magicians who worked on opposite ends of the land. They summoned help from demons by carefully constructing magical tools, sigils, containing the essence of a particular demon specialized in bringing about one power. The magicians would carve symbols into an object meant for reflecting the quality of a particular demon. While holding the object in the left hand and combining it with the saying of the demon?s name, magicians were able to free demons from the grips of the Underworld from which they were bound to.

From time to time many wanderers roamed the desert in search of food and water. Parched from the unforgiving desert sun, these travelers would eventually stumble upon the Legend of the Nine Cast Iron Bowls seemingly strewn about the edges of the desert. To their dismay they found the iron bowls to be full of boiling water?useless to the desperate traveler who needed to quench his thirst. How torturous! When the wanderers began to examine the bowls with greater attention to detail they discovered strange markings inscribed along the edges of each of the bowls, and not without the chilling image of the imprint of a demonic face at the bottom.

Usually the travelers would find rest here, hoping that the cooling light of the moon at nightfall would make the water drinkable. Many a wanderer would have their hands burned by the intensity of the heat radiating from the iron bowls, as they were so eager to drink and replenish from it. A desperate traveler, dehydrated and nearly dead, drank from one of the iron bowls anyway, scalding his tongue and throat.

The moment at which the traveler made physical contact with these bowls the magician would emerge from the Cave of Snakes. He would shackle the traveler while holding a sigil to his forehead, uttering strange words from incantations and requiring the traveler to say, ?From God unto Angel, Angel unto Man, and from Man unto demon I submit thee to your ends, Master.? Establishing this hierarchy gave the magicians rule over the demons they summoned, for the travelers knew not at first they were demons from the Underworld until they had seen their symbols in the iron bowls and heard their demon names uttered by the magicians? mouths.

The magician on the West end of the desert exploited the demons by commanding them to do useless acts from which he would only benefit on the material plane. He was left insane, with the broken record of demons chanting over and again, ?I want?,? ?I need?,? ?I lust for?,? ?I hate?,? among a multitude of other things. He became the Black Magician, the center of pestilence, who hears the voices of demons arguing and ruling him to carry out their desires in the Human World and forever a slave himself.

The Magician on the East end of the desert exalted the demons by commanding them to do useful acts from which the Higher Planes would benefit. These resident demons of the Underworld now became dwellers in the Human World, but only under the command of the Magician who was able to make the demons useful to our plane, and to our plane the Angels and unto God. This Magician found a way to help the demons be made useful and evolve. As a result he was honored with power to speak a rare language known by few men, a language meant for communing with Beings of the Angelic Realm.

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 Chuparrosa is a Dreaming Woman who inherited the sacred art of the ensueño (Dreaming) from the Yaqui Queen of Dreams, Heather Valencia. She has also been training and closely working with Koyote, a Toltec Man of Knowledge, integrating the art of invocation with her academic training in psychology. Chuparrosa works her dream weaving by unifying worlds and mystical visions, using her body and words to sensually integrate, rearrange, and transform.