XVI. White Owl and Half Snake: Priest Point Joe
Published 9:00 pm Saturday, April 14, 2007
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The White Owl and Half Snake are partners. They are for doctoring. The White Owl claims that he is a powerful bird and the Snake claims that he was a powerful snake and shows that he is now.
He was cut right in two. Half is gone, but still he could do the work just as well. So the two together met Joe when he was yet a boy and showed the boy what they could do to cure sick people.
White Owl and Half Snake
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The Snake could cure any wound and the bird could cure any other sickness so the two together would work and would beat all other totems. The white totem shows it right there. See how brave it is grabbing the big animal right on the nose, and the big snake right by it? Priest Point Joe died when about 100 years old. He had been doctoring, using these same totems, before his death. If any person would get sick from other totems, these two would cure that person because they claimed that they were stronger than any other totems.
