
The First had managed to take what at first seemed like a basic conflict of beliefs, told by Ayla with such credible conviction that it could almost create a schism, and instead blend them together. But I am overwhelmed that those we have called animals for so long would have such great knowledge of the Mother, and having such knowledge in their ‘memories,’ how they could not recognize Her.” The zelandonia were relieved. Ayla’s interpretation of her early experience with the ones she calls the Clan does not deny the Legends or the Mother’s Song. It may be she is remembering her own life in the womb, before she was born. In the first stages, it does resemble a fish, and then animals. You have all seen and examined human life before it was fully formed, when it was expelled early. Who is to say how Doni formed us? What child remembers its life in the womb? Before it is born, a baby breathes water and struggles to breathe when first born. “In our Histories and Legends, the Great Earth Mother gave birth to all life, and then to those like us who would remember Her.

Zelandoni who was First broke the silence.
