| Grandmother Turtle watched as the Earth she loved was slowly being destroyed around her. She remembered when she, herself, had placed Mother Earth in her place in the sky. A place so blue, so green that life upon it thrived. Those put in charge of caring for Mother Earth had turned from their teachings. They had forgotten their responsibility for her care. They had ripped into the heart of their mother, leaving in their wake barren ground when nothing lived. They poured poisons into her waters, killing not only the finned that who lived there but the feathered and 4 legged that fed and drank from them. They cut and burned her great forest sending black smoke into her air. Grandmother Turtle knew that a time was coming that these 2 legged would cry and plead to the Creator when all that they had created with their own hands turned against them, as they had turned against Mother Earth. Many refused to hear Grandmother Turtles� warnings of what was to come. They were too busy grabbing all that they could, no matter the cost. Grandmother Turtles� ways were too old, too slow for this busy world. So what if there are children starving in far away places? Their children were fat. So what if their brothers had no place to keep them warm and dry. Their home were large with every little thing on could want. Grandmother Turtle felt hope in her heart, for a very few were beginning to understand of what she spoke. They were searching of how to return to the old ways. Looking for elders who remembered the teachings of the ancestors. Others pointed and laughed at them, calling them fools for not grabbing their share of what there was to have. Choosing to live a simpler way of life. They were seeing in their dreams and visions, the path they needed to follow, and they believed. Grandmother Turtle smiled for she knew that these children of the earth would survive what would soon come. She knew that they would continue on. So came the days that Mother Earth could no longer endure the torture that bas being done to her. At the first shaking, Grandmother Turtle gathered up those children who had returned to the ways of the ancients. The children of the first 4 colors that had been sent out by the Creator, the Children of the Rainbow, took refuge upon the back of Grandmother Turtle. She flew into the stars to a safe place, the place of the ancestors as Mother Earth cleansed herself of all that had been done to her. Sleeping giants were soon awakening to the great shaking. Liquid fire poured from the heart of the Earth turning all that lie in its path into ash. Rising waters engulfed all that lay before it. The great shaking caused massive crevices to open, swallowing building, towns and great cities alike. Tremendous winds blew, decimating all that stood before it. As suddenly as it had begun it was over. Calm had returned. Mother Earth was born anew. When it was done, Grandmother Turtle again gathered the Children of the Rainbow, and with them the ancestors. Grandmother Turtle took to the sky returning them to Mother Earth. Here they would now live as had been designed by the Creator, in peace and harmony with all things, resting securely on the back of Grandmother Turtle. |
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