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Wantaam, signifying Wisdom a Wise Woman was the title she bore as one who wore the Fire Maker's bracelet upon her wrist and had pledged herself to tend as her fathers had tended and her fathers' fathers since time began, that inner, mystic flame which has lit man's way to progress from the moment when he forged a bludgeon to conquer his own world, until, to-day, when he was inventing a Bird to invade others.
There was a laugh in the inventor's throat now; the grim "Get thee behind me, Satan!" look, with the cloud of that codicil to a will, were melting away from him. "Well, go on!" he encouraged smilingly. "Artistic, anyhow! I believe you Camp Fire Girls would weave magic around a clock pendulum." "And here here am I Wantaam, a Wise Woman. There's the Thunder Bird, see, the symbol of the great rocket.
Her eye went to the emblems upon her wall: a pine tree on a poster, typical of strength, a banner with a sunburst, the sun shedding warmth upon the earth. And then then! To the little squat figure of a woman, as the Indians depicted her, with a torch in her hand, Wisdom's torch her own emblem as Wantaam of the Council Fire. But there was another representation of that Wantaam that Wise Woman.
"We are the White Birch Group of Lenox, at present engaged in protecting our younger brothers, the little trees which we planted ourselves. I am Tanpa signifying Birch Guardian of the Group; in everyday life just Myra Seaver." "And my name is Lorry Pemrose Lorry my ceremonial name Wantaam, a Wise Woman."
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