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Machik’s Complete Explanation
black clouds and black fogs surround you. Roiling clouds and fog move over you. You get upset thinking they will overcome you. There is a shershing staff said to be the notched board of a düd. It is vivid black, with eight sides and many holes, twice as big as you are. You have to carry it on your shoulders or hold it in your arms. You get upset and think you just cannot bear it. When any of these occur they are the secret signs of uprisings. You shouldn’t mistake them. All of them are the apparitions of board-toting düds. Remember them. Signs of Tsen 20 Uprisings Outer Signs “Listen well. These are the kinds of outer uprising signs that will occur. Many red people, red horses, and red riders wandering around, standing, or moving. They are harming you or you are trying to help them. Also, you are threatened or surrounded by red dogs with red tails, wolves, wild dogs, corsak foxes,21 or foxes. You look after cocks, owls, cuckoos, and small owls. You take care of or are given new red clothes and red fine silks, or else you see many that are unowned. These are the outer uprising signs. Inner Indications “Though appearing in the bodies and shapes of regular people, there are hostile, voracious beings that overwhelm you with terror and are extremely dangerous. They carry red lassos, spears, and bows and arrows. They wear various fine silk clothes. Some of them have different, special attire such as tigers’ or other predators’ pelts, goat or sheep skin, small owl skins,22 makara, and dragon skins. They ride on red stags with antlers, wild asses, horses, tigers, and elk with upper and lower saddle straps made of snakes, and human skins draped over the front and back of the saddles. They are in mixed groups, some riding and some walking. Red lightning flashes. Also, you are in the midst of extremely frightening, dangerous red cities. These are called the inner indications or signs of deep uprisings. Secret Signs “A great red water fills the mountains and valleys. Red waves congeal and red clouds are blown by the wind in the continuously filled mountain valleys.