Odyssey of the 8th Fire is complete to date,
I will publish the Epilogue here in time.

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As one pilgrim, I invite you to come along on the odyssey: the long story of our sacred passage on foot across North America from the Eastern Door at the Atlantic Ocean toward the Western Gate at the Pacific.

As well as the tale of our travels on foot, Odyssey of the 8th Fire is the essential story of our meetings with dozens of traditional, learned elders of North America. They gifted us with messages to deliver.

Reading Odyssey of the 8th Fire online is a demanding quest. The story is long. Because of this, and because many of the elders who are part of the story note that their teachings take both time and attention to understand, I recommend this literary pilgrimage be undertaken step by step, over a span of eight months or so. Odyssey consists of a lengthy Prologue, and then 225 accounts, one for each day of travel. Those journal entries are ordered chronologically in the navigation bar to the left.

By engaging this online account of the walk just one day at a time, a reader can make a steady eight-month literary and spiritual pilgrimage from East to West across Turtle Island (North America). The journey proceeds place to place, elder to elder, teaching to teaching.

 
                                          With respect,                  
Steven McFadden, author

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Please support the telling of Odyssey of the 8th Fire. I freely offer the teachings of this true saga to readers. They are not for sale. That is the tradition. Still, I bear expenses to publish, and my labor has been long. I am a human being, not a non-profit corporation; thus expressions of reciprocity and support are welcome and appreciated, but not tax-deductible.

  With thanksgiving — Steven McFadden