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| Fiee, Man of Fire by � coondogk9 As I write upon these pages of the blood of trees my mind dances with visions of a forgotten past. The land of danger lurks around every bush and stone. A world uninhabited except for the animals and the ancestors of first man. Smoke rose in the distance and as we close in I see the fire of death. The revenge of the fur bearing spirit has struck down another. A huge long haired bison released his anger and refused to die. A great mammoth joined his companion and together they drove the hunters away. large leather skinned eagles soured the sky in droves searching for a victim to carry to the high mountain crests and feed their young. The fire came from a long departed brave by the name of Fiee whose heart pined for his love only to be spurned and rejected. His heart burned and burned until at last it destroyed him leaving only the fire of his passion flaming in the burning embers of his bones. The small cave clan curious, discovered the ash of their brother and built a shrine to preserve his remains. Soon it began to die. Taking branches they stirred life back into their brothers memory and in so doing fed the fire again. Now one kept vigil that the flame may never again starve and die. soon offerings had been made of fruits, roots, and meat of the hunt to appease the spirits. As some fell from the stone coved parapet hasty hands retrieved it to the discomfort of blistered fingers. Licking their wounds soon found pleasure in their stomachs and a feast was conceived that lasted for many moons. Their travels included a wet skin lined with pebbles that carried a portion of the fire. Red embered coals were soon spread throughout the land by the travelers and soon to other newly established camps. Stone weapons soon replaced the burnished wooden points and again man ruled the animal kingdom. The spirits saw mans plight in such huge beasts and summoned the ice gods who covered the land in snow and ice eventually freezing the huge beasts and starving them from food buried beneath the ice. Smaller creatures protected by mans fire as they slept in the camp developed into other creatures and when the forests returned they populated them with dear, elk, moose, and hundreds of other creatures. The tiny animals could no longer satisfy the large saber toothed tigers thirst and they became week from hunger and the constant hunting of small morsels and they too became smaller. The bison grew thinner and thinner until finally he became small enough to eat with the other creatures in the small environment. The mammoth lost his hair and his teeth became shorter enabling him to eat the short grasses and leaves from the trees. The leather skinned birds grew feathers and their skin softened in the shadows of down covered bodies and they too became small. Slowly generation after generation the ice melted and the forests spread and the grass grew tall far and wide. The creator left reminders of his ability on high peaks and ridges and kept two worlds of ice and snow. Now man and beast provided a harmony each could live with. Man supervised the new beginning and maintained a balance between man and nature. He took care of the earth and gave it his mothers name to forever provide for its children. Vision Quest � 2002 T Lovett |