A guitar is built from objects selected from each Canadian province and “infused with the national spirit”
So an adept wants to create a powerful artifact, and decides to go public with his creation (though not its occult purpose), claims that its purpose is to generate “national spirit,” and so gets the nation willing to assist him in getting the material to construst the whole thing. How many other adepts have tried this before (and how far can he go before the Sleepers decide he isn’t playing nice in the sandbox)?
” As the fate of the nation hung in the balance, an inner voice spoke to Mr. Taylor, commanding him to build a guitar that contained Canada’s national mojo.”
Wow! He’s being pretty blatant about it, too!
“Mr. Rizsanyi says he won’t make a final decision about where each object will be used in the guitar until he’s collected them all.
‘I need to look at them all, stir the pot, and consult the mystics,’ he says.”
“Mr. Rizsanyi, who worked as an auto assembly-line worker before launching the guitar-making career that made him a musical cult figure, believes guitars contain an energy that is generated both by the musicians that play them, and by the materials that go into them.”
“One of the most difficult tasks he faced was acquiring a piece of wood from the Golden Spruce, a 300-year-old albino tree that grew in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
The tree, which is sacred to the Haida, became world famous in 1997 when it was cut down by radical environmentalist Grant Hadwin.”
“I want to make something huge and sweeping and diverse and beautiful and full of contradictions — like our country.”
More “wow.” This is crazy cool.