The Lion Dance

The traditional tale of witches riding on the backs of hyenas, traversing the dark night to accomplish their evil wishes, was first told in the Kalahari Desert some nine hundred years ago. Today, we sit around evening fires wondering if the discovery of our lakes and rivers by our grandfathers was achieved under the auspices of those moonlit trips on hyenas' backs.

Dreams have the power to move across our memories, reshaping what we understand of centuries long-gone. The origins of intertri...