My freely available epic, nonfiction saga Odyssey of the 8th Fire is drawing increased attention now, as film director Christopher Nolan prepares to release what he says will be one of this summer’s blockbuster films: The Odyssey, the classic tale attributed to Homer. That’s because the true 8th Fire adventure involves everyone.
Like Homer’s Odyssey, the nonfiction 8th Fire tale tells the story of a long, adventurous journey: an eight-month, 2,500 mile walk from the Eastern Door at the Atlantic Ocean toward the Western Gate at the Pacific.
Rather than one hero, the true 8th Fire Odyssey involved many people from many of America’s cultural and spiritual traditions. The quest is not over. We are all still on the journey, step by step, paso a paso.
In their time and place the walkers felt that in many important ways they symbolically represented all of the people, and that they also were a part of a great transition that we are all going through, from one historic epoch to a new one.
As well as the true tale of the pilgrims’ travels on foot, Odyssey of the 8th Fire is the essential story of their meetings with dozens of traditional, learned elders of Turtle Island (North America). The elders gifted the walkers with messages to deliver to the people of the Americas for this era of transition.
Recently updated, Odyssey of the 8th Fire now includes a musical rendition of the poetic Invocation for this true-life odyssey – a call to the 8th Generation Arising.
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