For the Native Americans, bats were a symbol of transformation. Their changing patterns remind me of the Greek myths in which mortals turn into trees, stags, spiders, streams: bodies magically changed, by the power of the gods into other bodies. Ted Hughes says of Ovid’s Metamophoses that he reveals a passion so intense that it “combusts, or levitates or mutates into an experience of the supernatural.” These sorts of transformations are at the heart of ancient stories (Innanna, The Bhagavad Gita, The Osiris myth) which engage us in the mysteries of our existence.