Tales From The Woven Flame: The Skin Remembered

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🎙️ Episode 4: The Skin Remembered

TailorSun Tales | Song of Shielding | 1959 Arkansas

In the cotton fields of 1959 Arkansas, where silence was survival and strength was worn too early, a young girl named Delorah Mae discovers something older than fear, and stronger than pain.

This episode brings the House of Protection to life through the awakening of the Song of Shielding. In a moment of danger, her skin doesn’t bruise… it remembers. Ancestral memory rises, not as armor, but as sacred witness.

🔹 Key Themes:

• The inheritance of strength through silence
• The sacred burden of protection for Black girls
• When pain becomes memory, and memory becomes power
• Ancestral defense systems reawakening

🔹 Featured Quote:
“Protection is not the absence of pain… it is its witness.”

🔹 Spark Moment:
When faced with harm, Delorah’s body hums back — awakening the long-dormant glyph of Gahn, and reactivating a lineage of shielding carried in her very skin.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Before the flood, before the forgetting, there
were songs that shaped theworld.
Now, they're waking up throughyou.
This is Taliesin Tales.
The fire remembers.

(00:23):
Let's begin.
Tales from the Woven FlameEpisode 4 The Skin Remembered
House of Protection Song ofShielding Scroll Number 4 Before

(00:45):
we built walls, we learned tostand still and not fall.
In 1959, in Parkin, Arkansas,the soil remembered names that
the maps forgot.
And in that soil, one child, agirl, when sons were more in

(01:10):
demand, carried way too manythings that were hers to hold.
But the old songs don't askwho's ready.
They just return.
This is how the Song ofShielding remembered.
Delora Mae Boys don't knownothing about quiet pain.

(01:35):
They break.
I bend.
She bends under a sack of cottonnearly as big as she is.
Her bare feet cut through withold weeds.
Her mother says she came out thewomb already knowing how to
carry that cotton in that heat.

(01:56):
Dolores sneaks away.
After supper.
Not to play.
To rest.
She hides beneath a tree said tobe haunted.
Nobody goes there.
So she goes.
She hears footsteps approach.
Boys from town.

(02:17):
One has a switch.
You think you different?
You think you different?
She doesn't answer.
He swings.
But the air between them sings,not loud, not sharp, but
something solid.
Her arms glow faintly, notlight, but memory.

(02:45):
A braided pattern appears acrossher shoulders, then fades.
They run.
She Stands still.
Later, she lies.
Says she tripped over a root.
But her mother pauses.

(03:07):
Places a hand on Dolores' back.
Feels the faint heat.
Some trees guard more thanshade.
She doesn't explain.
She doesn't need to.
The glyph of God awakens.

(03:27):
The song of shielding hasreturned.
Not with armor, but with memory.
Delora Mae will grow up.
She'll move east.
She will raise daughters of herown.
But on some nights, when thethunder calls, she still feels

(03:53):
the hum rise in her skin.
before the storm even begins.
Some of us were taught to bestrong before we were taught to
be safe.
But the thread remembers, and somust we.

(04:18):
What strength have you worn solong you forgot it was borrowed?
Who taught you that stillnesswasn't safety but shame?
Thanks for listening to theTailors and Tales podcast.

(04:41):
Episode 4, Tales from the WovenFlame.
Peace, the spark doesn't shout.
It hums.
So if you feel it stirring,follow.
Let the rhythm lead and the talewill meet you.

(05:08):
Peace.