It's Just Winter...

taking a brief break from elf-ish fun

.....I have been tossing this around for awhile...and now is the time it comes out...because Winter Solstice is coming soon, right before Christmas and....it is the time we can say hello to the waking sun...and have hope that winter is ending.

so, there is a great creator spirit called, Glooscap, among First Nations and Native American people of the eastern coast...Canada and U.S.

and a legend that tells of how he battled the giant Winter...in some tales, he goes to meet Winter because a great frost covered his land, preventing corn from growing...and his people were starving.  Glooscap sits with Winter in a wigwam and Winter tells Glooscap of old days when the giant ruled the land and everything was cold and still.

Glooscap fell asleep for six months, but woke, because the charm would not hold him still....he was too powerful.

Glooscap's trusted friend, the Loon, told him of lands to the South that were always warm...and there lived the all-powerful Summer....who could easily defeat Winter and Glooscap decided to set out and find her....to bring her back and help him kick Winter in the nuggets.


lovely Summer... no doubt could kick Winter's ass any day.  :)   Summer was a beautiful woman...with flowing hair....who breathed life back into the land and tossed Winter out....but she made a deal with Winter....every year he could come back for a few months, but only for a few months.....at which time, she evicted him.  :)

and so, is the legend....of how Glooscap, the great creator spirit....found Summer...and told Winter to take a hike.

the end...




peace and love...and Summer...may you feel the glow of the sun all winter long warming your soul through the darkest of days.