“I have heard ancient stories of heroes assisted in impossible tasks by animals such as cranes or beavers. As a modern, these are difficult to understand, since, how, for example, can a crane assist one in traveling to where the Sun lives?

This is not a space travel question, it’s a soul travel question. And these kinds of things are not as moderns will imagine them, in general.

They are of an entirely different order where, for example, one’s ceremonial blanket is at once a spirit-ally and a »vehicle, and one’s relationships with a certain animal in the physical world may take on an entirely different aspect in … another world near at hand yet often overlooked…”

— an anonymous informant