The cree and Chippewa peoples believed loons were supernatural messengers - emissaries from a world beyond. Mariners listened for loon calls when nearing foggy shores - the call of a loon could keep them off the rocks. This timeless message is only appropriate. Loons are the oldest and most primitive of our water birds. They're more closely linked to fossils, than to most living birds.
Loons return to their northern ponds each year just on the day the ice breaks up.
We can't say. That call you hear is the call of time - of an ancient knowledge beyond all reckoning. No wonder it thrills us and scares us, too. This is the ancient dawn we came from, but can no longer remember. His ancient call tells us what we once were - back, at the very edge of time.