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𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
" Not only I can catch your Nightmares I can catch you as well "
IN SOME NATIVE AMERICAN AND FIRST NATION CULTURES, dreamcatchers were created as a protective charm for children and to be looked after. Dreamcatchers represents a spider web, where dreams can travel through, but nightmares cannot, nightmares are caught in the web before entering one's dream and cause harm. The origins of the dreamcatcher are associated with a figure from Ojibwe mythology known as Asibikaashi, or "the Spider Woman." This mother-figure was a protector of the people, especially children.
BACK THEN, SHE WAS KNOWN as Kiisiis, her given name by her mother, which is translated "Sun" in her Native language. she was loved and respected by her people—her tribe. She created a charm for the children that would protect them from dreams and nightmares and that charm she called "Dreamcatcher". What she didn't realize was that the Dreamcatcher prevented her and her people from the Dreaming.
This caught the attention of an Endless called "Dream" also known as Morpheus—The King of Dreams, when he noticed a great amount of people were missing in the Dreaming. What he didn't predict was that he could not enter Kiisiis's dreams and her people's dreams, and the Nightmare being held captive in the hands of a merely mortal young woman. Eventually she captured Dream, himself— Earning the name "Dreamcatcher" by the Nightmares and the Endless.
After an incident involving the massacre of her people, vengeance led Kiisiis in the brink of death. Death saw the potential from her, so Death offered to spare her life and grant her immortality, which Kiisiis reluctantly accepted.
Dream gained a mortal acquaintance, the Dreamcatcher, herself. Allowing her to enter the Dreaming even when she's awake but as long as he's around. It was the beginning of their centuries of long and building friendship between the two.
For centuries, the Dreamcatcher shared many stories to her people, generations after generations, while protecting and looking after the children. The story of the Dreamcatcher had grown, she became merely a story, a story that eventually became a legend, a legend that became a myth as centuries stretched on and became part of her people's culture. She would come to their aid when her charm, Dreamcatcher is hung over their children's beds, watching them, guiding them to their dreams and protecting them from Nightmares.
