The Vixen & the Fox II

Chapter 283

Davina had walked with Deaton and Stiles through the Reserve, as they both talked about the hellmouth (Buffy the Vampire had supplied pretty handy terms for some descriptions for what was going on; and yes, she had noticed Stiles swiped those terms. Two could play at this game as Davina had snagged Supernatural terms.); for the most part, while the Reserve was a Reserve, there were necessary markers to create a magical vortex. If they were further north Davina would venture that there was something along the 51° parallel north but there wasn't. So, she felt it had something to do more with star and planetary alignment. Similar to the Stone Henge, or Callanish, where there was an alignment happening, and there was some unseen circle here acting as a door. The nine sacred woods were all here too, she had seen them growing rampant around on the Reserve: Alder, Ash, Birch, Hawthorn, Hazel, Holly, Oak, Rowen, Willow, all magical markers that Davina recognized. Davina didn't know the Tribal magic's of Northern California, particularly the Pomo Tribes, or their belief, and they were very hushed about it.

Davina did know though that there was a lot more shamanism in regions like this; and Davina did not study shamanism; she was a witch not a shaman. So it was likely she and Kol would need to reach out to shamans and other such practitioners. Similar to druids, shamans were born, raised and immersed in their crafts; like witches. The difference between the practices was subtle and those small differences, to the crafts, were huge in practice. Davina could not practice, nor would she ever attempt to practice, shamanism, just as shaman didn't attempt witchcraft.

Overall, best Davina could figure, from what she had found in the region, as well as global comparisons, Malivore was using magic vortexes of various regions to break through the veil, or the trapped supernatural were crossing over at these points. Davina was thinking it was both, because she didn't think Malivore was the place where all the missing supernatural had gone; but rather a manifestation of the magic required to send the supernatural wherever Kol had misplaced it. For now, the Reserve, nicknamed the hellmouth; was probably a rifting point between wherever Kol had lost the supernatural and their world, and not directly linked to Malivore. Which was a different set of problems, meaning she and Kol would have to start Cartography to dig into the problem. Space, dimensions, other worlds, it was all vast and various, and difficult to navigate; there was a reason not many witches studied Cartography outside the Gemini, other than a blatant lack of use for it, it often led to more headaches than not deciphering what was and was not legend and myth and real. Kol using Norse mythology was a great way for Davina to think of it, because she had a sense the Norse had unwittingly tapped into something there.

The descriptions to the old Norse myths used to describe Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms; Asgard, Midgard, Muspelheim, Jotunheimr, Helheim, Niflheim, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Svartalfaheimr, it was all too graphic and consistent for Davina to dismiss it as myth alone. There were other examples in other cultures of this happening too. But again, Nine Realms, Nine Sacred Woods, Nine... something was linking Nine to this, she didn't know why but two separate cultures shared an affinity for Nine, and when she dug deeper there were other cultures with an affinity for Nine. Nine universal substances or elements in a branch of Hindu philosophy, nine jewels, nine forms of Durga. In China Nine was a good number, associated with the dragon, nine points of the heart in traditional medicine. In Egypt nine deities, the Ennead, judged whether Horus or Set would inherit Egypt. Nine Worthies was a common theme in European cultures in the Middle Ages. The Greeks had Nine Muses, nine days to fall from the heavens to earth and nine more to fall from earth to Tartarus. In Mesoamerican mythology there was a Lords of the Night, nine deities who ruled over every ninth night to form the calendar cycle. Aztecs believed the underworld consisted on nine levels. Mayans believed their underworld also consisted on nine levels, and her research showed there was a step pyramid which had nine steps to represent the levels of Xibalba.