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(15) TREE GOES TO THE SUN While turtle found her place in the most cosmic of moon lodges, tree went to the sun. The sun that tree went to was the sun in the time of the dream. To tree, this sun appeared like a gigantic fiery spirit lodge. It was perfectly round and ablaze everywhere, sending out hot curls of fire in all directions. At first tree was frightened, for fire is wood's natural enemy. But tree remembered she was in her dream body, and the fire could not burn her. Spirit tree entered the flaming sun lodge. Inside was a great rounded cavern of fire. In the center of the cavern was a ball, white and hot. Through the top and bottom of the ball, a fine luminous axis ran as far up and down as tree could see. Sticking out from this same white hot ball were four very long poles. But these were poles of fire. Each pole of fire was turning, moving slowly. The ends of each of these fire poles burst into showers of molten flame. Each of these four shower bursts then turned into five rivers of fire. Fire rivers of fire, four poles of fire, and a luminous axis to thread a central white hot core. Tree trembled and wondered what she was looking at. Even as she thought, a deep fiery but friendly voice spoke reassuringly to her. I am the sun. What you are looking at is my gyroscope of solar time. Through my gyroscope of solar time my axis holds me to the Hunab Ku, just like you noble spirit tree. Help to the Hunab Ku, my four limbs rotate in harmony with each other. Four limbs I have to hold my mantle of solar time in place. From each of these four limbs five rivers flow, 20 rivers of solar time in all. These 20 rivers of solar time hold my planets in their time. Just like you, tree, I have my rings. Ten planets hold my rings. The planet holding the fifth ring is shattered, but its debris holds it ghost sound in place. Ten planets to ring my sound of time! 20 are the rivers of solar time, ten the planets of my rings. I feed the time of each planet with two of my 20 rivers. One river is fed by solar time, the other river is fed by galactic time. Ten planet rings of time, 20 rivers of solar galactic time. Solar time must come from you sun, but what is galactic time, where does it come from? Tree asked. Galactic time is my night time, sun answered. I, too, experience a night time and a day time. See, like Earth, I have an outer mantle, too. But my mantle covers a large sphere. The planet farthest from my gyroscope of solar time is the limit of my sphere. The mantle of my outer limit is my heliosphere. My heliosphere is like turtle's shell. Only it is my membrane of galactic time. Through the power of my axis the entire heliosphere slowly turns around another star, a mother star. Tree, I, too, am only a child. When my heliosphere sweeps around my axis, I have a very long day time and a very long night time. Thirteen thousand Earth years is my night time, thirteen thousand Earth years is my day time. My mother star is closer to great grandmother galaxy's Hunab Ku than you or I. With my gyroscope I navigate my time with the time of the mother star. Through navigating with the mother star my heliosphere receives galactic time.I pour this galactic time into ten of the rivers that feed the ten planetary rings. In this way each planet has its share of galactic time. Galactic time is help for the planet by its moon or moons. These moons are like my gyroscope of time, and help hold the planet in its time. In this way, too, the day side of each planet is for the sun time, the night side for the galactic time. Tree was very impressed. Tree spoke. In some ways, sun, I am like you. I have a sturdy axis. I do not have four limbs, but I do have roots and branches. And within my trunk, around my axis, are my rings of time, just like your planetary rings this is very curious. Sun answered tree. You are very wise. For you are a thing of wood. I am a thing of fire, wood's natural enemy. To see in me some kind of resemblance is a sign of great knowing. You shall be rewarded. The reward you become will be a gift to the last generation children of the Earth, the inheritors of the end of the time of the becoming. Tree asked. What do you mean sun, I do not understand? Your reward is that you are to become the fiery tree of vision. Whenever the purpose of the human children needs to be strengthened or reminded about its great role in the biosphere, you will appear from the time of the dream in the form of a fiery vision: a tree, a wheel, a blazing sign. In this way, someone in every generation of the humans will have the key to time. The key to time, but what is that sun? Tree asked again. The key to time is you, tree. Your shape in time is that key; an axis still within a trunk, a mind that branches into the day of solar time and roots that seek out then night of galactic time. This mind that seeks to know the roots of time will know my power of 20. 20 is the number of years to a human generation. 20 is the number of fingers and toes the human child has at the end of its four limbs. The mind of the human child that knows will become like you, tree, strong, noble, and centered. But the human child knowing that it knows will also be able to count. 20 is the natural count. 20 are the human's fingers and toes. Tree, even if the human learns how to count on its fingers and toes, it may forget stillness of mind. If it loses stillness of mind, it won't matter how many numbers the human can count. Spirit tree, I now place you as the fiery guardian of the stillness of mind, and the key to knowing the power of time, my sacred 20 count. In that moment, spirit tree was consumed by a powerful white hot burst of liquid fire that exploded in all directions. Spirit tree was now transformed. A blazing trunk stayed firm in place. Above and below flames shot out like fiery roots and branches. Around the roots and branches and across the center of the trunk fiery wheels blazed and intersected. Spirit tree had now become the fiery tree of vision. The beginning of the end of the time of the becoming had arrived. In the radiant realm of the time of the dream, so close and near to the Earth you know, two empty places appeared. These were the places of the original turtle and the original tree. Each had now gone on to other adventures. Next Page >> Jump to page... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25 |
