First let me say Merry Christmas Ken and so very best to you.
The holes in the hands is nothing biblical. I'm going to try to paraphrase in Mudbone speaking as follows.
"The reason why Mudbone has holes in his hands is so stuff can flow through his hands, otherwise you guys wouldn't have anything. He would get everything."
Some of this originated earlier in life during his trapping days. Sort of Indian lore, he's a backwoods guy in fact a NYS Adirondacks trapper. There's alot more explatives to his life's story but I don't have enough time to explain here. Call him sometime when you have 2 hours to kill and you can get the whole story.
He's a one off a kind for sure and a good man. He makes me laugh and we do that together.
If you speak with him, say he's a heck of a guy for 105 years old.
That will add another hour to the conversation. LOL.