GSM: How Maiden Earth became Mother Earth...

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Great-Spirit-Mother (GSM)

 

 

Athapascan Legend from Western Canada

 

When Mother Earth was very young, the mountains and the rivers of Her proud body

blossomed in the springtime of Her being. She was more than fair to look upon,

but Her greatest beauty of all was that part of Her that became the homeland of

the Northern Athapascan peoples...

 

It was on this most perfect part of Earth that Asintmah, first woman of the

world, appeared at the foot of Mount Atiksa near the Athabasca River. The holy

Asintmah walked among the forests that grew upon Earth, gathering branches that

had been discarded by the trees, careful not to tear or wrench away any that

might still be growing on the body of the Earth. Joining these branches

together, Asintmah built the first loom. And upon it she wove the fibers of the

fireweed, the willow herb that Earth so favored, weaving them into The Great

Blanket of Earth.

 

Once the weaving was completed, Asintmah began her long walk to spread the

sacred blanket across the vast body of Earth...Then sitting down beside the edge

of the blanket, Asintmah began to weave threads of music, singing of all the

beauties of Earth, singing songs of how Earth would soon give birth to new

lives, beings as perfect as Herself...

 

Suddenly all was quiet. Earth lay still and calm once again. It was in this way

that Asintmah knew that the children born of Earth's womb had been

delivered...So it was that with the help of the holy Asintmah, the woman who

existed before all others, Maiden Earth became Mother Earth. And although this

all happened a very long time ago, Athapascan people remember that even now they

must care for their aging mother, the one who gave them life, and honor the

memory of the woman Asintmah who was with Her in the beginning.

 

The Divine Feminine

Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring - Conari Press

Berkeley, CA

ISBN 1-57324-035-4 (hardcover)

Pg. 37