Legend of Queneesh, Comox Valley, BC

The Comox Valley is a wonderful place to visit since it is full of things to see and explore.
Vancouver Island has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world to visit.
The picture above is a Glacier in the Comox Valley.
There is a legend very well known by the Native Indians called the Legend of Queneesh.

A long time ago Comox Valley had a lot of totem poles , cedar planked houses, canoes, quiet nights, sounds of the water, sea birds and owls.

A man called Quoi Quia Lak dreamed about a flood and he was told to tell the chief to prepare for it.

The men built canoes and packed them with supplies.
The men also made a strong rope which they fastened to the glacier and tied their boats to it.

It began to rain and pretty soon only the tip of the glacier was to be seen, frightening everyone.

Then the glacier began to move.
It had taken the form of a white whale called Queneesh and saved the Komok people.

Till today, the Glacier is said to protect the people living there.

The story is written in front of the I-Hos Museum in the Comox, BC Canada.



As can be seen the mountain is quite flat on top, sorta like a hump of a whale.

Have a great Day!!

Legend of the Oak

The Little Oak trees are growing and so far surviving.
I will need to transplant them soon.

The King Oak has a remarkable legend.
It's kinda confusing cause these trees are also known as the Mother tree and mankind was said to have come out of the oak.

Oak relates to the sun and the element of fire.

Many Gods are associated to it like Jupitor, Zeus, Erato, Thor, Janus,
and it has other legendary powers which inspire people.

The Oak has powers of protection health money healing potency fertility luck wisdom and strength.

The Oak give shelter and protection and is looked upon as a sacred tree.

The Celts and the Norse loved it for the acorns and for its size.

The Druids liked to meet by Oak trees to do their ceremonies.
They believed if they carried an acorn they would stay young lol
If you want to protect yourself from evil, try putting two twigs together in a cross and tie it with red thread.

If you fear lightening try putting acorns in your windows.

Catching a falling leaf will protect you from colds all winter and if you burn the wood it also will chase away illness.

Wands are made out of Oak and used in sacrificial rituals in a full moon and the oak represents the 7th moon.

Legend has it that when it came time to choose a tree to crucify Jesus all the trees agreed to split so as not to be used except for the oak and as a result Grecians do not want anything to do with the oak.

Another legend has it that when Cain murdered Abel, he had to carry his body 700 years and then bury him. Cain stuck his staff into the ground to mark the burial place and seven oaks sprang forth in a row, announcing the 7 oaks of Palestine.

Still another legend has it that when King Harold was in Rouen with William, William made him swear an oath under the oak tree. The king broke his oath which made the oak leaves fall so everyone knew what happened.

If you dip two acorns in the same bowl of water people will get some news.

If the acorns float together, then the couple will marry.

Another interesting story had to do with Zeus. Greece had a festival called Daedala.
Hera, Zeus's fiancee, got mad at him for deceiving her.She saw he carried a wooden image of Daedala. She later forgave him but for the festival the image was carved out of Oak to remember the deceit.

To choose the tree , they placed meat at the foot of many trees and the one the ravens ate from, was the one they cut down to make the carved image.

In Ireland, the oak is taken very good care of because they believe that if the tree falls, it will be the end of Earl of Howth's direct line. So when they see an ailing oak they put supports to keep it erect.

On the practical side oak is excellent firewood and building material and is used for tanning, dying cloth, and acorns for bread.

And so my lovely little Oak trees are being treasured in this house hold but I only have three
and two have two stems each.

I hope more pop out but so far they haven't. I will need to transplant them soon so the roots do not get disturbed.

Hall of Legends

There are truths and there are lies and then there are Urban Legends which may as well be truths

cause if people believe them they can’t be lies.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder as is beauty and a sense of smell.

Durians taste good to some people who say they are sweet or bittersweet and custard like . To me they taste like mushy onions.

What feels good to one, may not feel good to another.

For example, a tennis ball, which brings the hair on my body to stand on end, to another person, is something pleasurable.

A person can be raised to love pain and pain isn’t so bad if you do not fear it.

Sometimes the anticipation of pain, feels worse than the actual pain itself.

Mind over matter as they say

People walking over coals, worshippers piercing themselves with hooks, pulling heavy loads,

have all experienced things and if you ask them, will each have a different story to tell of the same experience.

We believe a person is insane and a liar if he declares himself to be God or King.

But give me a good reason why he should or could not really be who he says he is and who are we to judge otherwise?

Is a bad machinist, a machinist?

He has a piece of paper saying he is but his work sucks.

Is a bad artist, not an artist? What is a bad artist?

Is a thief a thief, if he believes the world is his oyster or steals food for survival?

We say he is a thief but are we not thieves as well for buying and selling things which are there, because they are, like cones from a tree.

Did anyone pay the tree for the cones? Did anyone ask the tree if it wants to be sold on the land it sits on?

Did any one ask a flower if its seed can be taken or the chicken if its eggs can be used for food?

Did anyone pay the hole in the ground for the coal that’s taken?

Did anyone pay the inventor of water for the water we use everyday?

Did anyone pay the sun for the heat it gives?

In the beginning, people believed in many Gods because they gave credit to where credit was due.

The soil got impregnated with seed and grew off spring, so people prayed to the Soil God for giving them food.

The tree gave of its fruit so man prayed to the Tree God

The sun gave heat so People prayed to the Sun God.

Today we do not give credit to any thing or any one.

We will not pray to thank the Sun nor the tree nor to a faceless God we do not know

but we will pray to the man or entity who holds power and fear over us,

be he a religious leader, a king, or president.

Man has become arrogant and believes everything is his to buy and sell.

Money is power and yet I have not seen one person who owns it, bow down to a dollar bill and pray to it, as they have, say… to statues.

I have seen no one pray to oil or coal or even diamonds.

So what does all this mean?

We place value in what is meaningful to us but if this is the case, then we cannot act as judges in courts and systems,

against people who do not believe in them or who do not have the same values.

So I guess in order to be able to make value judgements and laws that stick, the people we accuse and

blame for not following them, have to be part of the same group of believers.

Otherwise you punish an innocent and you teach, not the laws of the land but that you are a powerful monster ,

ruler or God superior to humans, man must bow down to in fear and be controlled in fear until one day

he can over power you and set his own vision of truths and lies as he sees them to be, but not necessarily are.

He can for instance tell you or make you believe the sun is cold reversing the meaning of words.

So you feel the sun as hot but instead of using the word hot, you use the word cold.

The end result could be that we believed in one thing but it ended up being another.

Today they are trying to prove that it wasn’t Christopher Columbus who discovered America but the Chinese.

If they can prove it by finding the wood only Chinese boats were made of, in North America,

Christopher Columbus could become an urban legend and China will try to claim

her rights over this continent.

Urban Legends ………are we all not a part of them?????

And Who ever said "the best things in life is free?"

lol