All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story in a New Poetic Interpretation

By: Jabez L. Van Cleef

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem health, something global culture is trying to rediscover under the label of sustainability. Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens, the God-People, the earth, and all its creatures. First recorded by 19th century ethnographers, the Navajo Creation story is here interpreted as an epic-length poem. "In the skin of your fingertip: Before your eye there, hold it up; You see the trail of the White Wind. There you will see where the wind blew, When first people from corn ears grew. I say, may this wind never end!" Jabez L. Van Cleef takes foundational texts from many oral traditions and religions and creates a common poetic format to preserve, promote and disseminate the values of these cultures. See more at www.sustainyourspirit.com