La Loba Arts

 She is the Old Woman who lives in a hidden place that everyone knows in their souls but few have ever seen.  The sole work of La Loba is the collecting of bones.  Her cave is filled with the bones of all desert creatures, but her specialty is wolves.  When she has assembled an entire skeleton she sits by the fire and thinks about what song she will sing.  And when she is sure, she stands over the criatura, raises her arms over it, and sings out.  The more La Loba sings, the more of the creature comes into being; its tail curls upward, shaggy and strong.  The wolf creature begins to breathe.  La Loba sings so deeply that the floor of the desert shakes, the wolf opens its eyes, leaps up, and runs away down the canyon.
We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in the desert.  It is our work to recover the parts.  La Loba indicates what we are to look for - the indestructible life force, the bones.