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(19) COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLES OF THE TURTLE AND THE TREE Great grandmother galaxy says, mother Earth is always spinning time, web is always recycling time. With time, web converts all cosmic energy into life, and life into the breathing atmosphere. Within web, who goes against time, goes against life. This is the law of the cosmos. It applies to everything. Child of the Earth, where are you in time? Do you know the whole story? Listen again. By the end last of the great ice ages, the human child arose as the cleverest and most adaptable of all Earth's children. Leaving the time of the dreaming animals, the human child entered the time of the seed. But not everyone planted and followed the seed. The turtle people chose not to follow the way of the seed. They remained by the lakes and the rivers where they met and mingled with the tree people. The tree people had also chosen not to follow the way of the seed. The elders of the tree and turtle decided to hold a council among their peoples. Deep within a sacred grove, their council met. All night around a fire pit, all day among shafts of sunlight and shade, the turtle people and the tree people held council. The turtle and the tree people elders spoke: we know that our way is not the way of the seed. The way of tree and turtle people is the way of sacred time. If we can keep the sacred counts of thirteen and 20, if we can keep the memory of time sacred within ourselves, then, like tree and turtle, we will help mother Earth by remaining constant. Turtle and tree elders continued: people who follow the way of the seed will not remain constant with the Earth. It is one thing for mother to grow seeds. But if human grows seeds, then human must change. Human is not the same as mother. Human is only a child. To grow and cultivate seeds, human must invent many things. The things human invents will change the human. Without knowing it human will change more and more. The more human changes, the more chance there is that human will forget the sacred counts of thirteen and 20. If human loses these two counts then mother Earth will lose her constancy. This is why we must remain, children of the turtle, children of the tree. Our fire, our dreaming with the animals, our way of sacred time, that is all we need. For if our brothers and sisters who follow the way of the seed should forget the sacred counts then we must be steadfast. No matter what happens we must hold true. If even one of us is still keeping the two sacred counts at the end of the end of the becoming, then mother Earth may still experience unity in time. For this reason, we must hold the truth of sacred time until the end of the becoming. The council of the elders of the tree and turtle people's ended. Each clan, each tribe mingled with all the others one last time. Then they departed, thirteen turtle clans, 20 tribes of the children of the tree scattered throughout Earth's biosphere. Ever since that long ago council, turtle and tree people have remained deep in the forests, high in the mountains. Time and the way of the seed have taken all but a few of the turtle and tree people. But the memory has not yet died. Today these few people of the sacred time sing one song: O child of the Earth where is your magic turtle 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
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