00:00:00.000Often one of the biggest indicators that everyone notices is, you know, special stuff that birds do, be it coming and perching for a specific part of a ritual and then leaving.
00:00:18.380kinds of birds that you don't usually see coming them doing almost a call and response
00:00:27.580squawking at a certain time them flying overhead at an auspicious time it's something that people
00:00:34.600notice a lot and i understand it may sound you know birds do crazy things whatever but when you
00:00:41.200do enough of them, you can kind of tell the difference of when it's at an auspicious time
00:00:49.300or when it's just birds doing bird stuff. I always remember one ritual we were doing in
00:00:57.720my house in Palmer, Alaska. Anybody who knows Palmer, it's inland a little ways. It's not really
00:01:07.140on it's kind of far away from bodies of water and it's not really where you see a lot of eagles
00:01:15.180and it was really cool this eagle came and perched in our our ritual tree we had a special
00:01:21.780tree that was kind of where we would leave our offerings and such and it was right on the edge
00:01:26.980of our vey and eagle came perched in the tree like came in when we were inviting in for the ritual
00:01:38.120observed the ritual with us and then left when the ritual was done in a really
00:01:46.180it's the only time that ever happened on that property all the time that I lived there and it
00:01:52.000was really interesting so you pick up on that with birds birds are really special that way and
00:01:56.800to have to believe our ancestors interacted with them in a similar way so I think it's easy to