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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:32:59 -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "The Woman Who Outshone the Sun," is another one. Interestingly, all the stories I can think of with this theme require human beings to take action to cooperate with the forces of nature in order for the earth to regenerate... Kimberley -----Original Message----- From: Quiltedtales@AOL.COM Sent: Jan 7, 2005 9:19 AM To: HEALINGSTORY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Subject: Re: story of regeneration =20 In a message dated 1/7/2005 10:03:20 AM Central Standard Time, =20 Robbady@AOL.COM writes: My musician and I were wondering about tales of the earth regenerating, giving life to people...either origin tales, or ....We are looking for a=20 story or two...any suggestions? The Mayan story of Quetzalcoalt is a good one. He is a wise leader and his= =20 people lived in a time when the arts flourish. An Evil Magician poisons th= e=20 people against him though and he is banished from his land. Quetzalcoalt=20 travels to what is now Mexico and asks the people there to cremate him. (I= n=20 some stories he is dead when this is done and in others he is still alive)=20= As=20 the ashes rise to the heavens they turn into a bird and his heart soars hig= h=20 up into the sky becoming the morning star. You will find many sources for=20 this tale. It's a great story with a lot of symbolism. =20 =20 Some sources that I used: =20 Bierhorst, John The Mythology of Mexico and Central America, 1990 Patent, Dorothy Quetzal: Sacred Bird of the Cloud Forest Spence, Lewis Myth and Legends: Mexico and Peru 1913 (This one is a great= =20 source, check you library, mine has it in a special section---299.72Spence) =20 Looking forward to hearing how it went, Marcia Guti=E9rrez ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||