Beyond the Valley of Mist by Dicksion William Wayne

Author:Dicksion, William Wayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, adventure, prehistoric, stimulating, mysterious, high priests, stone age people, fire god
Publisher: William Wayne Bill Dicksion

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For the next three cycles of the moon, they spent their evenings in the homes of their teachers, learning the Zorian language, and then talking to them in their language, discussed what they do and learning how to do it. Sometimes what the Zorians were doing seemed strange, but there was usually a good reason.

“Why do you plant your fields only when the sun is moving north?” Zen asked.

Mar, one of the men who tended the plants, said, “The Wise One told us that the sun lives in the North, but it takes a trip to the South each winter, and that is why it gets cold. We wait until the sun is on its way home before we plant, because the plants need the sun to grow.”

“How do you know when the sun is coming home?”

“The Wise One showed us how to know. Come, I will show you.”

Zen, Jok, and the girls walked with Mar to the top of a hill. There they saw a circle of rocks. In the center of the circle was a rock where a man could sit. To the east of the rock were six sharp-pointed rocks arranged in a semicircle.

“You can sit on this rock and watch where the sun comes up,” Mar said. “When the sun has completed its journey to the South, it will come up from behind the farthest rock to the South. At that time, we know the sun will begin its journey home.

“In the summer, it will come up behind the farthest rock to the north. Twice each year, it will come up exactly behind the one in the center. When the sun moves south of that rock, it marks the beginning of the cold weather, and when the sun moves north of that rock, it marks the beginning of the hot weather. Zor told us we should only plant when the sun is moving north. It has always been so. Zor has always been right.”

“Where does Sun go when it goes into Earth each evening?” Zen shook his head, trying to understand all that Mar was telling him. “And how does it get to the other side of Earth when it comes out each morning?”

“Some think Sun goes into Mother Earth each night and she gives birth to a new Sun each morning,” Mar said. “Only a young, strong Sun would be able to climb into the sky. Sun returns to Mother Earth at night. They mate and create new life. Sun dies each night and is reborn each morning to begin a new cycle of life. Everything is like that. Mother Earth gives Sun life. Sun lives the life Mother Earth has given it and, when it dies, it returns to Mother Earth and is reborn to live again. The cycle continues forever. Each time we live, we learn a little more, until someday we will know everything.”

They walked to the edge of the cliff and looked around them.

“Those who worship Mother Earth say that people are just like the sun,” Mars continued.

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