After the Awakening, a Hindi group came to the realization that not ony
had they been right about reincarnation pretty much since forever ago,
they also had the responsibility to share their insights with the rest
of the world, to assist others in this time of chaos.  Missionaries were
sent from India around the world.  One couple took their two-year-old
son, and went to a Yakima tribe along the Colombia river.  There, they
taught their philosophy of reincarnation.  Over the years, their
congenial attitudes and their ability to heal the sick and the wounded
impressed the tribes, and their own belief in ancestor worship began to
blend with this new concept of reincarnation.

Time passed.  Their son, Kannen, grew up in the midst of this blend of
religions traditions, playing with the Native American kids along the
banks of the Colombia.  When he turned 15, he begged his parents and the
elders of the tribe to allow him to undergo the Rite of Naming, a ritual
where children go into the wilderness to find their Spirit Totem and
their True Name, and return to the tribe as an adult.  In a rare moment
of deviousness, he told his parents that the elders had refused his
request, and the elders that his parents had refused his request.  Both
agreed that he could go if he could convince the other.

Kannen went into the wilderness a boy, and returned as Thurgun... the
troll.  Perhaps even more surprising to the Native Americans, his Spirit
Totem had not been an animal at all, but a woman named Lucy, one of his
own former incarnations.  The event marked a turning point in the
tribe's acceptance of the missionaries, and from that day forward, many
young tribesmen and tribeswomen found former incarnations as their
Spirit Totems.  The tribe's religious center shifted, and today most
everyone in the tribe embraces Thurgun's parents' beliefs.

When he turned 22, Lucy told Thurgun in a dream that he must travel to
Seattle, where she would meet him again, and he would know what to do.
When he got there... but perhaps that story is better told a different
way.