Earth Medicine: a creation story

"I reckon, Earth our creator, has indeed a purpose for us... She created life to sustain her own. We are merely mulch, blood and bone or ash, all which she needs to enrich her protective coat, the flora. All life dies and to ensure that there was a continuation of soil enrichment she developed procreation. Man's purpose for life is to ensure that life continues to enrich the Earth upon death. She entrusted man with the knowledge of guardianship of her coat protector of all life and communicator to the next generation. She entrusted us to weave her dream and the indigenous peoples of the world kept her knowledge guarding her and all life fiercely for 100,000 years... It is their sadness because they have failed to protect her but it is not their shame or guilt it is the ones who discarded her knowledge." -Judith Stubbs