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Write about a community that worships Mother Nature.

Posted in Summer on Oct 26, 2022

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Five Seeds

Submitted to Contest #90

TW: gore It happens every twenty-five years, the Ritual of the Five Seeds.   Mother Feverfew has the Five collected in the New Life Bethel. There are three Brothers, two Sisters. They sit evenly spaced along a circular bench, reverent heads bowed over plates carved from acacia wood. Steaming on each plate is a meal of roasted fiddlehead ferns, goat cheese, buttered gold potatoes. Centered between the five plates is a sizzling 20-pound carp, silvery skin blackened.   “Why must we Fatten?” Mother Feverfew asks the Five.    ...

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Mother Nature , I abide in you

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Raised in a country steeped in religion and mythology , there has been an imprint , naturally embedded deep in our psyche , India the land of God’s and Goddess , eternally blessed . Twame wa mata cha pita twame wa Twame wa bandhuscha sakha twame wa Twame wa vidya  draviman twame wa Twame wa sarvam mama dev a deva An invocation to the Almighty God , saying ,’’O God, You alone are my Mother, my Father,my friend, My brother,You alone are my wisdom and wealth. Indeed you alone are everything to me . These verses were stat...

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Communion of the Ecoists

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Nate reported to his superior, Dion, "Mission was a success, sir. Our satellites were successful in deploying the bioagents across the EU. At their present rate, they should infect the entire Union within 42 days." Dion stroked his beard and then said, "The infection rate isn't sufficient. Can we amp it up?" Nate looked at its consoles and tried adjusting the parameters. "I have increased the infection rate by 95%. It is the best I can give." "How long before it infects the entire targeted region?" "By my calculations, it can be anywhere nea...

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The Mazumba Village- A land of nature and culture

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In the Plains of West Africa was a the primitive kingdom of the Mazuban people. A land that shares boundaries with the pacific oceans endowed with mountains,the blue skies, hills with water falls and green and flowery forests filled with all kinds of animals. In the Mazuban land animals which are also totems are regraded with different levels of honor. The lion is regarded to a royal, kingly entity, the tiger a good wrestler, the tortoise as crafty, the leopard as a honorable hunter and lots of them. Indeed Mazuba was a place every tourist w...

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One Less Sister

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“You should come join us!” my sister says, so full of excitement and joy. I feel hesitant to join her, especially when the people she wants me to join worships something that isn’t real at all. “I really think that you should open your eyes, Aliah,” I say. “Just think about it. They worship Mother Earth… Is that red flag not enough?” Aliah is my responsibility, especially since I’m the older sister. Our parents bestowed upon me that responsibility. That was the last thing they ever spoke to us before they died. And ever since, I’ve been s...

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Past the Point of No Return

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I was riding my bike to the town square for the monthly ritual of worshipping Mother Nature, to supposedly keep our small town safe from natural disasters. Suddenly, my bike hit a bump and the ground started shaking. Was it an earthquake? Did the rituals stop working. All around me people were screaming and running around frantically. What was happening? I heard someone calling my name? It sounded close, I looked around and didn’t see anyone. I sat upright in my bed to find my sister shaking me and telling me to wake up and get ready. I com...

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The Mother's Children

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Alice wanted to curl in on herself as she sunk into her chair. She tugged her hair out of stress, a bad habit she needed to stop. People always talk about how moving to a new place was difficult. Alice liked this town, but lately… Lately she felt as though she were seeing things in the corner of her eye. Things like flowers going from buds to blooms in mere moments, but that was probably the wind. She also felt vines wrapping around her legs when she walked along the sidewalk. But she was sane! Those things were tricks of the light o-o...

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She Who Sleeps

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“Kireama, wake up.”The mountain quaked around us as Isapoinhkyaki, the mother of my father, called out to it, her aged face creasing into a smile repeated as many times as there were wrinkles of her skin. She stood tall despite the years that threatened to bow her back, despite the trembling of her hands as they wrapped around my shoulders.I was hardly more than a toddler, then, and had begged my “Aana” to take me up the mountain to the “magical place”. She had told me countless stories of adventures as I grew up, of adventures, people, crea...

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Repent!

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The pot had just begun to boil. An aroma of savory sauce still waded softly though the air as Julia turned off the stove. Making this particular ramen was a two-part process that she cherished. First is the broth, roiling in the warm water, was a dash of soy sauce, green onions, a cutting of yellow, aromatic ginger, and fresh shitake mushrooms. The noodles, boiling in a separate pot, were just about perfect. Experience has taught her to time the boil so the noodles were soft with an ever so slight bite to them. The steaming noodles filled he...

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Magna Mater

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I hear the muffled roar of a junker being pushed past its limits just behind me. This cacophony is not alone as I am. Instead it is a fervent combination of tires fighting what I can only believe to be rugged back roads with gargled metal music that sounds more like the shrill of a boisterous demon. Hidden beneath all this disarray are the muted whisperings and sparse laughter of men stranger than the roads we speed down.  The chaotic atmosphere reminds me of my family’s drunken gatherings comprised of howling matches and blaring m...

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GOING GREEN CLAN

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GOING GREEN CLAN. I am Okoro. I am here to bring you my world and my existence. My Dad is Nkwu- the palm tree. You may not be familiar with palms, but you can ask those your earthly friends in Africa-Nigeria. My Mum once told me, I was about being weaned, when Dad took her to this foreign planet. Now, we are citizens. Fully-son-of-the-soil. Dad died when I was just twelve. Mum said “He turned into a palm tree”. She pointed towards a Palm tree gallantly standing at the centre of our compound; next to our green hut. As a boy of seventeen, I do...

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Neighborhood Vacuuming

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At first the dirty looks bothered her but she’s way more experienced at it now. She begins to slowly bend over and pick up a broken piece of plastic. Sometimes it’s better to have a system but other times she cleans as she pleases. Whenever she feels an excess of energy and her regular pastimes dont interest her, she bundles up, puts on two pairs of gloves and with a couple of trash bags she walks to the end of her neighborhood. Crosses the street and begins cleaning up the parallel neighborhood. We call them Grounders. They built this civi...

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Mother Nature's Children

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"You're under arrest, Cedar." I watched the red-haired officer step up to the wild, blonde-haired, green-eyed man. "I didn't anything!" His green eyes frantically searched for a way out. "Tell that to the dead girl found in your home this morning." "What?!" Shock and pain read clear as day on his face. "Ask Mother Nature! She'll tell you I had an alibi!" "You'll get your fair trial, boy." I bounded away, the only witnesses that knew where he was. I had to gather everybody else. Deeper into the woods, I called out to Mother Nature. ...

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Sunflowers

Submitted to Contest #90

Today was hide and seek in the fields. Each day, we get an activity. They can be work or fun. I finally got a fun one after three days of work. I made my way to Reed's cottage. Along the way, I admired the blossoming trees and the chirping birds. It's like they were telling me it was spring. After a few minutes, I saw it. That dirt home with flowers and vines to decorate. The small garden os sunflowers in front. They were his favorite. My people worship mother nature above all. The beautiful and the ugly of it all. It is a tradition that onc...

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The Community Speeches

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"Deep in the woods that lie beyond the city, over hills and mountains, there is a community of people that do not worship the normal gods that you would see in mythos or other religions. Instead, they worship one of the Earth. She accepts all ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations without blinking an eye. She is graceful and elegant while being forever wild. She has the skin of peaches, hair as soft as the moss that covers the rocks in the river, a voice that sounds like the water as it runs over that moss, and eyes that can pierce so...

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