This is a waterfall. It is not a swan.

Ah, but this is a waterfall, too, the same one, in fact, a little later in time, and flowing up against 8500 year old lava, and it is not a swan, either.

Many days and years of this waterfall are not swans either, but they do lure swans down from the sky, and become filled with their spirit.

It would be fair to say they were their spirit all along.

Some things take time, that’s all.