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"On one side of the world were people whose relationship with the living world was shaped by Skywoman, who created a garden for the well-being of all. On the other side was another woman with a garden and a tree. But for tasting the fruit, she was banished from the garden and the gates clanged shut behind her. That mother of men was made to wander in the wilderness and earn her bread by the sweat of her brow, not by filling her mouth with the sweet fruits that bend the branches low. In order to eat, she was instructed to subdue the wilderness into she was cast.
Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be for our consciousness. One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is out ancestral gardener, a cocrator of the good green world that would be the home of her descendants. The other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to her real home in heaven."

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweatgrass, Penguin Ecology, 2013

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