3 Stars, 3 Beings, The Paypaytahbun,The Memaywaysuh and the Anishinawbe
I grew up in the Land of the Ten Thousand Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
I remember a time when I was very young, about 5 or 6 years old, when my sister Norma, myself and along with my Grandpa, had gone to the back of the cabin. It was close to nightfall and my grandfather pointed to 3 stars and said:
“ the three stars that line up in a row facing south during the summer moon are the places we come from (looking south from Wild Potato Lake in Partridge Crop). The Paypaytahbun, The Memaywaysuh and The Anishinawbe came together on a craft that traveled by thought and as quickly. We are all relations but these three are closer because of this. ”
By this time we were in the swamp at the back of the cabin at Crilly. Grandpa popped a mushroom that gave off a cloud of dust (spores).
My grandfather went on to explain that we had subtle characteristics different from each other and this planet earth demanded a certain kind of attention when events and alliances converged, the three types melted into their own realms to maintain the balance in this place. Each sets of beings had a special connection to groups of beings that were already here before us. We could visit each other but under certain conditions or times.
The Paypaytahbun always visit us at the time of waking up or going to sleep. They look like a deep dark shadow with green, red, orange, yellow or purple eyes and when they touch us they freeze us in what feels like terror and cold. They are taller then most Anishinawbe .( The next day grandpa Pete took me and my sister to the same spot and we saw hundreds of baby mushrooms growing where the day before there was only one.) Sometimes they can visit us during the day through our shadow or any shadow. When they are here with us in the Anishnawbe realm, they are many but it is only one. One of them can exist simultaneously in many identical forms here in our realm, much like a single source of light being broken up into many slivers of light by a ripple of water. The fish sees the many lines of light and the Anishnawbe sees the single source of light and the many slivers of light. The Anishinawbe can jump into the water and temporarily live in the fish’s world and so can the fish jump out and for a moment be in the Anishinawbe’s world. We can see the Paypaytahbun sometimes as dark humans from a distance and if we get close you can observe a flash of things swimming in their form. Just like us, they have families. Certain families have an awareness of earthly families and there is great ceremony to commemorate this. The Paypaytahbun live in raw copper and the Memaywaysuh live in all kinds of rock.
The Memaywaysuh are generally shorter then the Anishinawbe, about half to three quarters shorter at least. When they leave their places in the rock to visit us here they have to come in two’s or threes. They have to hang on to each other and stay together but if they separate, they keep their form for as long as we can stay under water and then they have to go back to the rock or else they cease to live here and die.
The Paypaytahbun only die in their world, the copper. The different Paypaytahbun have been called the sasquatch, yeti, abominable snowman and so on. The Memaywaysuh have been called fairies, pixies, leprechauns and so on. Sometimes, you can find their footprints, elbow prints or butt prints that they melted into the rock. Anishnawbe know some of these places as where they had met for a reason and pow-wow. Wherever you see carvings or rock paintings is where the doorways are from where the great relations came through from their side,” Grandpa Pete used to tell us this all the time.