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This story is the creation of Alethea who has kindly allowed me to place it on my webpage for others to enjoy, as I am sure you will. You can pay a visit to the author at :
Pagan Central: Alethea's Page
The link is also at the bottom of this page!
The Firebirds
In the beginning within the darkness the world
was beginning to loose hope. The FireBirds met and talked and decided to trace the fire across the sky in a great multi-colored rainbow pattern for all to see and enjoy and gain hope from.
They gathered together thousands upon thousands, in every color created and began to weave. The weave was spectacular and many marvelled at it's beauty including the Fire Birds themselves. The world began to smile and hope again.
Soon though they began to argue about the pattern. Why did this color go there? What were they thinking when they put that shape there? and so forth. They tried some things for a time but they failed. Other things were tried and failed before they began.
One day the weave became so intense and so heavy the birds could no longer maintain it and plunged into the seas erupting in a tremendous ball of ash and smoke putting out the glories of the rainbow and plunging the world into darkness.
But From the mess and from the chaos, and from the darkness a few of the FireBirds emerged and shook of the ashes. What had happened? What went awry?
Then the Earth, Air, Water, and Spirit gathered.
The Earth spoke to them in low deep tones of how the rainbow had warmed the soil and the plants grew and the animals were nourished by the warmth and the beauty of the rainbow.
The Air sang about the fun it had having the company of such a beautiful thing to share the skies with and lonliness became only a memory.
The Water shimmered and rippled showing the reflection of the rainbow that it remembered and burbled about how much it enjoyed looking up at it.
Then Spirit whispered that the rainbow showed that all things were possible together and that the rainbow brought hope and light and peace to everyone.
The FireBirds spoke with each other. They then spoke with the others who all agreed.
The Earth would grow the beautiful things and provide food for the birds when needed. The Air would come and visit once in a while to chase away the lonliness. The Water would nourish them in their journeys and remind them in it's reflection of all the had accomplished, and Spirit would share the hope with them when things got tough.
The FireBirds than flew into the sky in colors more vibrant and more lovely than ever before and forged a rainbow together with Earth, Air, Water, and Spirit that the entire world would glory at for ages to come.
Pagan
Central
Alethea's Page, author of The Firebirds
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Lynette F. Watters
To contact me, my email address is "lunetta777" followed by "@bigpond.com",
less the quotation marks (of course)
