Earth Thunder had fled the ruins of a Mayan temple-school in Yucatan, survivor of a hideous massacre of learned priestesses who had fought to defend their freedom from the white man's church rule. All her life she had journeyed north in search of people who wanted to know Mother Earth and her interlocking Circles of Life.
From a bustling city in Europe, a noblewoman sent her family across the ocean, to renew a spiritual link with the Native American people. To her thirteen-year-old grandniece Helle she entrusted a tiny globe, symbol of Freia, as her own ancestors had called the Earth.
In her quest to honor Life, and share her knowledge, Earth Thunder freed a slave girl who would become her apprentice, River Singing. Golden-haired Helle also became Earth Thunder's apprentice. Together, the two young women helped build a new temple-school in the Deer Lodge Valley of Montana. There they put into action the old count that teaches of Life: One is the Sun, Two is the Earth . . . Five is humanity, self and spirit.
And, when danger threatened -- from a marauding highwayman and a hellfire preacher -- one of the last centers of ancient learning and healing in the West would fight bravely, and leave its mark in Time . . . .
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Patricia Nell Warren grew up on the Grant-Kohrs Ranch at Deer Lodge, Montana. A lover of journeys, she has traveled widely, lived in Missouri, New York state, California, and Europe, and speaks five languages. During twenty-two years as a Reader's Digest editor, she also had an independent career as a writer and has published eleven books. She lives in Los Angeles.
Thirteen-year-old slave girl Tadpole is saved from a life of misery by Earth Thunder, a shaman. Set in the American West of the 1850s and filled with goddess lore and Native American history, the story follows the two women as the older instructs the younger in goddess wisdom, ethics, and strong medicine. The opening is overlong and could prove tedious for listeners. Lorna Raver's narration just manages to keep the elaborate background from becoming drudgery. When possible, Raver invests each of the many characters with a convincing personality, but while the research is thorough, plot and characters take a backseat to the author's preachiness. Not even a performance as compelling as Raver's can do much with the wooden writing. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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