Part One of Two: The Child learns to Yodel.

"There weren’t always dragons in the valley. That was what most people in the new settlement of Fonix thought."

Oliver was curled up beside his Yaya, getting ready for a nap. After reading a story she told him to close his eyes and imagine what she was describing.

"Olafhap had been born in this dark village town, where the sun seldom shone. In the valley, it was light by 12:30 pm and dark by 14:30 pm on a summer’s day and, in the winter, when the sun was low in the horizon behind the mountain, the only light came from the stars and the planets.

"The flat, gloomy greyness of winter was felt physically. The blue seasons worsened the mood and energy of all citizens, and people who moved there felt their desires and thoughts were quiet and subdued. The dark sky penetrated the skin that was seeking the vitamin D. It left spirits dampened and threatened physical and mental health. Light causes subtle alterations in energy channels and the neurological signals directed by micro-organisms. Even the gut bacteria dwelling in the darkest bowels of the body fell out of the timing of circadian rhythms. This often led to unfortunate consequences for the inhabitants of the highlands, who lived just below the glacier's apex and in the lowland valleys. They longed for light.

"Sadly, Olafhap had been orphaned as a young boy. He was left with few childhood memories of his parents. He could only imagine how to meet the expectations and obligations that might have been part of his life had they lived. Olafhap's last memory of his parents was as he played on the alpine pinnacles. They had ascended the mountain to see a glimpse of the sun. Olafhap had only known this was home, and thought it was wonderful to see the sun when he did.

He heard his parents say, "Our town is like the phoenix that is still sitting within the dark burnt smouldering ashes that remain after a life spent of glory has burned out. Our lives are but a pitiful reminder of what the past was. One day I hope it will burst into fire and renew light and hope."

"Now he lived with his Yaya, whom he loved, however he missed his parents and wished that they would have been were near to guide him. Yaya had learned to guard each breath of life. Olafhap needed her and she needed to make sure he understood what is important in life. Although vulnerable, she showed him how to become self-sufficient.

"His Yaya told him that he was one of the Keepers of the Watch. She had encouraged Olafhap to tap into a primordial energy. He would watch her do yoga and Tai Chi but he learned how to meditate and not to judge thoughts after he heard one of the adventures of Golinda and Gallopatrot.

“Once upon a time, in a land far away in time and space, where good dreams come true, Olafhap met Golinda and Gallopatrot. Olafhap did not miss little things which are the basis of deduction. It helped him discover the dragon and bring it to the valley."

Oli's yaya stopped and said, "The facts point to the origin of humans, as children born of the light of the sun and stars and that which is reflected from the moon and moves through dark light energy that most cannot see or feel, yet they can produce an effect which seems remarkable to others. It is not possible to deny the evidence that suggests the existence of the reptilian heritage. The dragon’s Sauropod ancestors had left remnant influences, seen in fetuses with gills and a tail during the early developmental stages." She continued the story.

" Olafhap had first seen a dragon form out of thin air, as the pneuma or spirit of a thought that could not be suppressed out of existence. One day, Olafhap saw the dragon appear as clear as day when he went to the mountain top to collect the summer flowers and looked down at the coastline where the ocean cut into the land and the waves formed the scales on the dragons back. He saw the curve form as an energy body of the Blue-Green Azure dragon, that travelled wide and far, within nature and formed in the clouds of the sky, the branches of a tree and the light of the night stars over the seasons.

"Gallopatrot was like the Chinese dragons that are associated with fluids, as water, air, plasma or even slow-moving particles in solids. They represent the spring and East that corresponds to the seven mansions or positions of the moon. They control weather, droughts and floods. The term ‘dragonare’ means flooding, and the word ‘dracare’ is a synonym for a heavy snowfall. History refers to the Latin draconem, and Greek drakon giant sea fish that could clearly see through solid and liquid forms. The dragon existed between the physical and astral world.

"People tend to refuse to see what is in front of their eyes. As a student of life, Olafhap saw it is possible to be able to see through different eyes. He learned to close his eyelids and squeeze his pupils, so they became horizontally elongated like herbivorous prey animals who knew they were hunted. He was able to see a panorama view, avoiding the dazzle from the sky above where there are fewer threats. He would rotate their eyes as they dipped their heads while feeding to maintain the pupil’s horizontal alignment with the ground to better spot ground predators and plan routes of escape they might become necessary.

"Olafhap could direct his eyes to face forward and see through elongated vertical stripes as do creatures that hunt by stealth. He could remain still for long periods of time, without moving his head or changing the vantage point, to improve night vision, and accurately stalk, and measure the distance to ambush prey. He saw through the eyes of the dragon.

"For most interactions, Olafhap focused as if he had multiple pinhole pupils that adjusted to distance. His pupils became large dark circular orbs when looking at a distance or having complex thoughts. They became smaller when focussing on objects that were close. The pupils could restrict the bright light of sunshine or formed from ideas to allow observation; or dreams that allowed reflection and could magnify danger or present a way to solve a problem or require protection. Olafhap was a self-motivated pupil controller, a teacher and a leader. Olafhap learned how to change his field of vision to suit different needs.

"Olafhap was on the mountain looking at the sun reflecting on the river below when first saw the dragon. It was when he felt his heart change how he saw through his eyes. Gallopatrot carried Golinda, the child princess. Golinda was a friend to the fierce beasts that haunted the imagination and invaded superstitions.

"Some people called the dragon the serpent mother of Cain, who in a jealous rage hurt his brother. It was a helpless attempt to ask for acceptance. In other stories, Lilith was the mother of the male demon Incubus, and female Succubus who wandered within humanity with no care for mankind; and sucked out the breath of life. The Greeks eventually changed the serpent Lilith into the Eurynome, the ‘Goddess of All things’ who arose naked from Chaos to part sea from sky. She could dance upon the waves as a dove. Golinda saw through the dove’s eyes.

"Golinda could see her dreams in her mind’s eye. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; and Golinda loved beauty. She let light play with shadow and saw the beauty and the rare wonders of life. Golinda also loved Truth that is not always beautiful. She knew beautiful words are not always true. Golinda and the dragon loved each other for their wisdom.

"Golinda saw with her heart. The heart is called the green chakra. Golinda had learned to use her green heart chakra like a green plant that reflects what light it does not use. Plants use the blue-red light. The pigment green is made up of combinations of the red, orange and yellow parts of the spectrum in ratio to the blue, indigo and violet. Magenta light, a combination of red and violet, is outside of the colour spectrum. Magenta is physiologically and psychologically perceived. Golinda knew that the colour green left an after image of magenta. When projected together, green and magenta form white, or wholeness. Green and magenta, one is nothing without the other. The thought was as important as the real things that happen with action. Golinda and Gallopatrot saw eye to eye.

"Golinda and Gallopatrot had no reason to be jealous of each other, they each needed the other. Together, they held an undefined quality of bonheur, often called love, that respects a wholeness the comes from attachment that transcends time and space. Golinda held the fires that held passion, creative imagination and hope. The dragon carried and controlled the fires spoken of in ancient traditions.

"The dragon could communicate in silence and its great presence was most often unnoticed. It allowed the life force energy to pass from the environment and the inner bowels and be processed in the mind without knowing. Gallopatrot could confidently communicate Golinda's original innovations without a fear of lack, that creates blindness of jealousy and fear.Golinda and Gallopatrot were part of a whole. Their fibres twisted. The dragon within and outside helped Golinda find beauty in the chaotic possibilities in a present moment"

Yaya stopped telling the story and held Oliver close. She said, "We have to accept the strength and weakness of humanity and believe in the cosmic connection of an infinite wholeness that is called love. It is a connection that can be used to find balance for yourself and others. Love is the key that lets you enter the transitional zone between matter and energy". Yaya continued the story.

"On that day, when Olafhap saw Golinda and Gallopatrot they became friends. They offered him a world where friendship held the expectations of dreams of what family life might be. Golinda told Olafhap that the path of love could get kinked and its flow could be blocked. It takes understanding of this unknown entity called love, to help undo kinks caused by jealousy and envy that can cause a person to be grumpy, envious and to overproduce bile in the liver, causing a pallid green cast indicative of aspects of jealousy.

"Golinda worked with the reptilian instinct to let possibilities outside of what is thought be known. The art of creation and destruction is part of the dragon’s true nature. Golinda was the navigator who travelled through the chaos moving with the dragon. The more she relaxed and accepted change, the move she developed her skills to control what happened. Golinda knew that what she thought and ate, and how she exercised and breathed altered her chemistry and the perception of the material world.

" Golinda was a rainbow warrior. She was there with Gallopatrot to help Olafhap discover what is found between the extremes of black and white. Black absorbs all light and white reflects all light. White light can be split into the visible light of the rainbow where the colours are reflected. They both wanted to teach Olafhap how to respect the dark and light aspects of friendship are equally worthy of respect so Golinda and Gallopatrot brought him on an adventure.

"Gallopatrot appeared in repeating patterns, in all shapes and sizes, like waves in the sea of life that appear in material form. They moved like a worm through the chaos. The dragon moved from hill to valley, carrying the secret of a meaningful life that is hoped to come to pass, in the chaos of what is.

"They flew over the progressive growth of gigantic ice tongues that were threatening because they became unpredictable when detached. They frequently caused obstructions of water courses that in turn resulted in terrible floods, that chilled all that lay below the glaciers. As they extended, the fertile soil was subtracted. Golinda navigated along the path of least resistance by cutting across on the diagonal, where the interactions of pieces curled differently than on a horizontal or vertical plane.

" Golinda and Gallopatrot brought Olafhap to meet the trolls that lived along these tongues and guarded bridges so that strangers could not enter.The trolls instilled a sense of suspicion and terror and the perception of danger and fear. Trolls are often depicted as large, dumb, brutish creatures akin to a large Neanderthal who eat hobbits for dinner or attack wizards and cause problems. They were green.

"Golinda and Gallopatrot taught Olafhap the language of the trolls who lived on or below the great mountains of the north. The trolls lived and thrived where there was just barely enough to survive. They developed the art of trolling, that involves a careful and systematic search of an area. To pass through the dark gap they used a trolling line that is easily snagged in dark places of reality, where unpleasant truths exist. Preventing the snag required second sight, the perception of the future using elementary reasoning and assessing the clues with the elementary principles.

"Olafhap learned to understand the trolls and see their green chakra shone as bright as all the others. They were not green because of jealousy, they were just green. Olafhap helped the trolls and they helped him find a way to get more food. Each thanked the other and appreciated the other. They had a wonderful celebration with music, song, food and good fellowship. Then Golinda and Gallopatrot returned Olafhap to his home then disappeared.

"However, Olafhap felt the dragon within the metal framework of his bones, and felt Golinda's spirit of creativity move as a life force. Olafhap had learned to balance light and dark. and see what was between the extremes. Olafhap knew love is born out of a connection.

" When Olafhap grew up, he was ready to stand in the dark valley and express the message of the dragon and Golinda. Olafhap connected to the cosmos with his dreams and memories - even false memories and imaginings- Golinda and Gallopatrot had taught him that the connection called love could transform chaos into clear thoughts. They had shown him a land of nobility.

"He heard the sweet chiming song of the Golinda. She controlled the universe that stopped the sun, so it shone bright. At that moment, Olafhap felt a multi-voiced sonorous falsetto leap from his heart to his head. He began to yodel. Yodeling is the ancient call of feeling alive. Yodeling howls remind the living of life. It inspired the holiday spirits in the local dairy farmers who became the living mummy's. They were called ‘mummers’. Dressed in homemade costumes of moss, twigs, and leaves and, fully masked to circle the village they began ringing giant cow bells and rubbing coins on brass bowls to create an annoying humming resonance when they occasionally stopped. It buzzed under the yodels.The glottal leaps were reflux-inducing, in non-musical term. The sheer cries of elation and the abundance of minor keys created an eerie effect with a sad melancholic effect. Haunting yodels echoed along a secret route along the broad summits and into steep narrow valleys.

" The village people looked up surprised by what they heard, then they saw the sinking sun’s copper alpine glow and spontaneously generate light over the village square. They saw light that followed the dragon curve then saw Gallopatrot carried Golinda. They changed into the flaming phoenix, a multicoloured bird who could make beautiful music and bring serendipitous synchronicities that transformed the darkness into light.

"Everyone was so happy they danced in the light on the village. They celebrated and sang and danced and feasted and had a wonderful time. When the phoenix left, its song resonated in the hearts of the people. Olafhap had found a way to capture a light that was hidden, and bring hope and happiness thanks to his adventure with Golinda and Gallopatrot. The end. "

Oli remembered these stories of his Yaya. The lessons of the Gallopatrot and Golinda adventures had helped him organize his life. However, little did he expect how the dreams of what he had seen in his mind's eye as a child would be reflected his adulthood. The next adventure will recount the experiences and adventures that helped Oliver let the light, that exists in the darkness of chaos, shine in real life.