When the Owl Calls Your Name
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2023
- Subjects
- Death & Dying, Reincarnation, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Death, Grief, Bereavement
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781774712474
- Publish Date
- Nov 2023
- List Price
- $8.99
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Description
They say when the Owl calls your name that the Creator is calling you home.
And when the owl comes to you, he sits and waits until your final breath. Then your journey begins.
From bestselling author Alan Syliboy (Mi’kmaw Daily Drum, Wolverine and Little Thunder, The Thundermaker) comes a beautiful new book exploring spirituality, mortality and grieving. An illustrated extended version of his popular song “The Owl Song,” it features imagery inspired by his band Alan Syliboy & The Thundermakers’ performance material and an author’s note on Mi’kmaw tradition and Syliboy’s own personal experiences with death. This book for all ages is a poignant depiction of what might happen when the Owl calls your name, and you begin your journey home to the ancestors.
About the author
Artist Alan Syliboy studied privately with Shirley Bear and attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where, twenty-five years later, he was invited to sit on the Board of Governors. Alan looks to the indigenous Mi'kmaw petroglyph tradition for inspiration and develops his own artistic vocabulary out of those forms. He is also the author and illustrator of the celebrated book (and multimedia art show) The Thundermaker, which was shortlisted for First Nations Reads, and more recently the board book Mi'kmaw Animals. He lives in Truro, Nova Scotia.