Tales of the Whirling Rainbow: Myths & Mysteries for Our Times
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Tales of the Whirling Rainbow is a journalist’s account of some of the key myths and mysteries of the Americas, and an electrifying exploration of how those myths are resounding in real time. Veteran journalist Steven McFadden weaves the living myths together seamlessly in a tightly written book that is eye-opening, and soul resonant.
Drawn from sources both ancient and modern, Tales of the Whirling Rainbow conveys adroit insights into key facets of North America’s unfolding saga. Learning to respect these knowings is fundamental to our spiritual growth and progress on the land going forward in time.
McFadden tells the tales in plain, precise language, creating a quick but absorbing investigation into a deeply rooted mythos that offers keys to healing.
As the Sun awakens and earth changes intensify, our human lives attain high velocity. At this time and in this manner, elders across Turtle Island (North America) told the author, the human beings who are the different colors and faiths of the world will be moved. This will create opportunities to heal their web of relationships.
About McFadden’s other books: The New York Times Sunday Book Review observed, “There are some stirring and unexpected powers unleashed.” Library Journal commented: “This wise and provocative collection is highly recommended.” The Washington Times: “Our leaders should sit and listen to the counsel Steven McFadden has gathered.” W.E.L.: “An excellent read. Informative without being preachy. Exactly what I have been looking for. Bravo!”
Steven McFadden
I've been an independent writer since 1975 when I graduated from journalism school at Boston University. Since then I've been happily involved with my life's work writing, and consulting. Over the years I've authored hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts, and over a dozen nonfiction books.It's my honor to have served as the author of an epic, nonfiction saga of contemporary America, Odyssey of the 8th Fire. It's freely available online at www.8thfire.net Odyssey of the 8th Fire is the true, epic saga of a historic pilgrimage for the earth across North America by people of all colors and faiths under the Sky Sign of the Whirling Rainbow. The 8th Fire arises from the deepest roots of our land. In it, circles upon circles, elders make a great and generous giveaway of the teachings they carry.The titles I have listed on Smashwords arise out of the Soul*Sparks publishing venture in which I partner with my wife, Elizabeth Wolf.As of 2019, I'm designating Chiron Communications, my umbrella publishing venture, as the publisher for the book I've recently finished writing, "Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future." The eBook version will be available here on Smashwords.Peace and good cheer, Steven
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Tales of the Whirling Rainbow - Steven McFadden
Tales of the Whirling Rainbow
Myths & Mysteries for Our Times
by Steven McFadden
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Copyright © by Steven McFadden as a Soul*Sparks Book
March, 2018
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This book is created and licensed for your reading enjoyment and contemplation. I offer these stories to the world as the result of my experience, my research, and my labor. Ultimately, the tales themselves and the words on these pages belong to the people at large, and in particular to the women and men who spoke them. Those elders — living and in spirit — wanted people to hear their messages. I am but one courier. It is my honor to have had good ears and a long life to experience many stories, and then to be able to pass them along as yet another teller of tales.
Acknowledgements
I stand in deep gratitude and appreciation for the many people who have influenced me, and helped me in hundreds of ways to come to the knowings expressed in this book. Miigwich. I honor you and your wise and generous offerings. Thank you Kathie Gabriel of Sedona, Arizona, for contributing your beautiful visionary art to this book. I thank and honor especially my Muse and partner in life, Elizabeth Wolf; with respect and love, this small treasure arises from us and is dedicated to you.
Great thanks also to the contemporary elders, and elders of eras past, whose enduring messages are woven into this ebook. Miigwich. My appreciation and tobacco offerings for you all.
- Miigwich, Steven McFadden
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Tales of the
Whirling Rainbow
Authentic Myths & Mysteries
Prologue
Chapter 1: Legend of the Rainbow Warriors
Chapter 2: Emergence of the Whirling Rainbow
Chapter 3: Sunbow Walkers
Chapter 4: The Teachings of Our Hearts
Chapter 5: Caoocoochee
Chapter 6: Return to The House of Mica
Chapter 7: New Period of the Sun
Chapter 8: Fusion
Epilogue
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Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have flourished; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out of the activities of the human body and mind...Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.
- Joseph Campbell
Prologue
As the years of my life have unfolded, I have found my path interwoven often with the people, the mythology, and the ways of the rainbow. I've heard about and known the legends for a long time, at least 40 years.
Over those 40 years I've moved through phases and ranges of relationship with the legends: variously regarding them as engaging stories, as shared spiritual visions and mysteries, as a powerful metaphor, as true prophecy, as wishful thinking, as corrupted new age fantasy, as a thread of provocative relevance at this warp in the tapestry of our unfolding human story, as interesting but irrelevant, and as an elegant, constructive, and unifying frame of reference. Life has continued to serve me up unavoidable encounters, and through this I have come to a place of understanding.
I’ve heard 40 or more tellings of rainbow mythology over the decades. One fairly recent afternoon — May 13, 2006 to be precise — I heard yet another telling of the rainbow tale, a convincing telling since it came from an impecably authentic source. With my dear friends Stephen Clarke and Carlos White Eagle, I was seated at the kitchen table in a rustic ranch house in Haystack, New Mexico, visiting with Navajo grandfather, Martin Martinez, his wife Janice, and his daughter, Kay.
Grandfather, in his 90's and nearing his transition on the Beauty Way, had life experience as a rodeo rider, a Code Talker in World War II, a community leader, and for many long, honorable years as a traditional Medicine Man and the ceremonial Keeper of Tzoodsil — the Blue Bead Mountain, or Mount Taylor, one of the Four Holy Mountains that