“And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.”

~Heinrich Heine~

This is my very Long Hair

I had a vision about hair and how it was important to our people.
By Peggy Squirrel

Mother and father were watching us on earth from the sky.

Mother had long dark hair that was tied up to her head. Father kept his hair cut to the skin. He did not like hair, but he loved his wife's long hair.

We called them the sky people, but they are our ancestors.

One day father was looking down at his children. He watched them fight and argue and go to war, repeatedly. He had intervened many times before but now wanted to stop it completely and the best way was to wipe them out.

He told his wife his idea as he was angry with them as they have not learned anything from his previous interventions.

Mother cried "no, you promised me you would never hurt our children."

He said "I give you a day to tell me why I should not hurt them!"

She went into the universe and cried for help.

"Someone please tell me how I can stop my husband's madness! He wants to kill all our creations!"

She cried and cried and her tears fell into the universe.

Soon enough came a spider and asked her why she was crying.

Mother told her about what had happened. The spider sat with her and said "let me show you something!"

She got up and said "underneath you is part of my web. Your tears fell onto it and I came to see what was happening, I thought it was one of my children, I came from there.". She points to a far away space that can barely be seen.

She begins to explain how she creates a web and she is attached to everything and she can feel everything happening. She says she knows where her children are and how she can feel them.

Mother tells her "I can't make webs like you."

Spider tells her use your hair. Pull your hair and send it to your children. Tell them to attach it to their bellies.

So mother began sending her hair to her children on earth. She told them to take them and push them into the stomachs. Every child took a strand of hair and obeyed her.

The spider said "tell the mothers to keep pushing them to their unborn babies too!"

So she did, the mother's pushed the hair to the unborn babies bellies also.

Once all the children of earth were attached to all her hair she could feel them all more than she did before. She laughed, she cried, she knew this would be the key to stopping her husband. But how?

The spider told her, cut it off and weave a wig and give it to him.

So she did...she shaved her head bald and weaved a wig. She didn't realize time had passed and he would be on his way to earth to destroy their children.

She walked in carrying her hair behind her, just as he was walking out he saw her bald and his face dropped. He cried "my love, who did this to your beautiful hair?!?!! I will make them pay!!"

She said "no, I did this to myself! I did this for our children! I did this so you will stop your madness!"

She takes her wig from behind her and places it on his head.

"This is your children, all of them, even the unborn!"

He is overwhelmed and begins to cry, for this is the first time he ever felt his children.

It is then he changes his mind to never strike upon his children of earth.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography