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EarthTribe Gather: Outline for a New Mythology. 

Composition in verse with 21 drawings.

  A return to the mythologies of the Earth around the globe, 
past and present, that are written in the stars.

    As we watch with wonder 
the movements of stars and planets through the night, 
and listen to the voice of our planet, through her wind, her rocks, 
her water, and the fire of Her Life, 
we can re-imagine thoughts from ancient sources 
into a picture for our planet as She faces Her climatic transformation. 
The reader tells the story. The reader creates the New Mythology. 

     If you would like to have a copy, 

please contact the author at  johndavid@earthtribe.info

    To take a look at the precursor  version of  this book, 
published in 2012 under the title 
The Gathering of the Tribes of the Earth, 

visit www.earthtribe.info 

 That book has 58 drawings and  expanded versification.

That was the block of wood from which I polished the 2014 version.

That book is also available directly from me.

Included on this blogspot are all the images from these books,

as well as verse from the  first  several pages of the 2014 version.

The pictures were originally hand drawn 
in black ink on heavy drawing stock.

Then digitally colored with Photoshop and Bryce3D.

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The Spirit of the Earth

Speaks through the voices

of We Who Live,

who follow the Heart of RoseViolet Dawn.

The path of listening to the Voice of our watery planet

Is littered with cascading distractions

as the noise of our urban-ization

fills the air we breathe with dark clouds,

fills our brains with a story that is not ours.

There is a story we know

that comes from the Heart of the Earth,

that grows through each of our hearts,

and speaks through our voice.

We Who Live

are the speakers of that story.

We are the generation who bridges

not  two eras

not  two epochs

but  two planets.

Now begins our Myth of Origin,

the story of our Emergence

from the Long Night of Darkness,

through the Star in our Heart,

into the Light of Dawn.

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planet  Blue
photo by NASA

symbol for Movement

Aztec calendar stone

at the Interface

between Night and Day

Twin Rectangles at the Heart
of the Calendar Stone