This was taken directly from the book Dreamcatchers, as told to the author by a curandero. I tried making it gender-neutral but it didn't sound right.
The Story of the Gods
There's a story that the gods were talking one day, all gathered up, and they said, "Wait a minute now. Here we got man and he's got all this power. He's got all this potential. Man is a part of us. Man is God, but he hasn't come to the point to where he knows what to do with this. What are we going to do?"
They said, "We've got to hide it from him."
One said, "Let's put it in the bottom of the ocean."
Another said, "No, no, he'll go down there. Eventually he'll go down there. He'll find it."
"Let's put it up in the sky."
"No, no, one day he's going to fly up there. He'll be up there. He'll find it."
"Well, let's bury it deep in the earth."
"No. He'll dig. He'll dig it up."
"Well, where are we going to put it?"
One said, "Let's go to the big god, the wisest of all, and ask him."
So they went to the wisest and they asked, "Where are we going to hide this from man?"
He said, "Put it within him. He'll never look there."
I've been wondering about your identity for a while now and finally followed the link (partly because I felt guilty for misleading you regarding the direction of causality in naming China (the country) and China (the plates). You were quite right. I was just being silly).
I just read all of your Zeppelin-inspired pieces but was unable to leave comments there. Wonderful stuff though. I'm flattered to have you as a reader. Keep it up!
Man, I'm gullible. On the other hand, naming a country with an enormous population and thousands of years of history after a tea-saucer sounds like something the British empire might do.
Posted by: flamingbanjo at February 21, 2008 11:19 AM acronym
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