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Naturally Curly Girlz

"In the old story of Corn Mother the Cherokee storytellers talk about her husband Kanati. Kanati was a great hunter until he discovered he could kill outside of necessity, and kill at will, whenever he felt like it.  The animals gathered together with the Creator, and complained about Kanati. Bear spoke for the others saying the Hunter killed and left the dead where they lay, and also slept in the open by the lake without concern for anything. The other animals were angry too. They knew Kanati would eventually kill everyone if not stopped.

Creator put Kanati into a deep sleep. Kanati dreamed a plant grew out of him, and a beautiful woman grew out of the top. Thinking it was a dream he woke up. A plant had grown up next to him. He sat up. A brown woman was atop the plant. The good manners the Creator placed in him rose up within him at the sight of this brown woman. Kanati stood to help her down. She took his hand, stopped and remembering something she turned back, and took two ears of corn to remind herself, she said, of where she came from. 

There is a deep look in a woman's eye that summons the best response, and calls out the urgent necessity to be a better man in her presence, for her, and why that is lies in the things the Creator placed within every man." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories  9.01.12