LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF THE QUERO APACHE by Maria Yraceburu
Tales for Healing and Renewal
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In a small canyon in the White Mountains of Arizona, a young girl sits and listens to her grandfather's stories. They tell of a people known as the Tlish Diyan, or Snake Clan, and how they came to be. She learns the story of her parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts, and an entire lineage of ancestors reaching back to the creation of the world by Changing Mother and the Giver of All Life. She follows their adventures -- from the original marriage into the Snake family to the appearance of a mysterious stranger named Kokopelli -- and in this way comes to know and find her place in All Our Relations. This child is Maria Yraceburu, granddaughter of Apache holy man Ten Bears and the hereditary recipient of his philosophy, legends, prophecy, and knowledge.
In the traditional storytelling ways of her ancestors, Maria Yraceburu respectfully weaves her contemporary experience into the tapestry of tales passed down for generations. In these thirteen legends of the Tlish Diyan she reveals how sacred universal laws govern our relationship to the natural world, our interaction with nature, and our respect for each other.
Maria Yraceburu is a Quero Apache Tlish Diyan 'tsanti -- a storyteller, healer, ceremonial facilitator, teacher, and guardian of ancient Snake Clan knowledge and philosophy that has been passed down through countless generations. She lives in San Diego, California.