Nez Perce

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Nez Perce was a Native American tribe of northeastern Washington who once inhabited the Twin Peaks region.

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"Something is missing. (...) The way, you will find it have something to do with your heritage."
―Log Lady

Nez Perce was a Native American tribe of northeastern Washington who once inhabited the Twin Peaks region. They told legends relating to the White and Black Lodges. In the stories, the White Lodge was the home of the spirits who ruled over man and nature there, it was a place of great goodness. The Black Lodge was the shadow self of the White, a place of pure evil through which all souls passed on the way to perfection. During this process, the pilgrim would confront the Dweller on the Threshold, their own shadow self. It represented the sum total of a person's dark, negative, unresolved qualities at the time of their death. Facing the dweller was the final test faced by all spirits on the way to perfection.

If this challenge was not met with perfect courage, the lodge would utterly annihilate their soul. While the White Lodge could supposedly be accessed with strong feelings of love, the Black would open to its opposite: fear.

Hawk: Cooper, you may be fearless in this world. But there are other worlds. Worlds beyond life and death. Worlds beyond scientific reality.
Cooper: Tell me more.
Hawk: My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.
Cooper: Dweller on the Threshold…
Hawk: But it is said that if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.