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  1. PROLOGUE:  KERRICK
  2. Title Page
  3. ONE
  4. TWO
  5. THREE
  6. FOUR
  7. FIVE
  8. SIX
  9. SEVEN
  10. EIGHT
  11. NINE
  12. TEN
  13. ELEVEN
  14. TWELVE
  15. THIRTEEN
  16. FOURTEEN
  17. FIFTEEN
  18. SIXTEEN
  19. SEVENTEEN
  20. EIGHTEEN
  21. NINETEEN
  22. TWENTY
  23. TWENTY-ONE
  24. TWENTY-TWO
  25. TWENTY-THREE
  26. TWENTY-FOUR
  27. TWENTY-FIVE
  28. TWENTY-SIX
  29. TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. TWENTY-NINE
  32. THIRTY
  33. THIRTY-ONE
  34. THIRTY-TWO
  35. THIRTY-THREE
  36. THIRTY-FOUR
  37. THIRTY-FIVE
  38. ENVOY
  39. THE WORLDWEST OF EDEN
  40. YILANÈ
  41. THE TANU
  42. THE PARAMUTAN
  43. DICTIONARIES
  44. ZOOLOGY
  45. BANSEMNILLA
  46. BOAT
  47. CLOAK
  48. DEER
  49. EISEKOL
  50. ELINOU
  51. ENTEESENAT
  52. EPETRUK
  53. ESTEKEL*
  54. GREATDEER
  55. GULAWATSAN
  56. HÈSOTSAN
  57. ISEKUL*
  58. LONGTOOTH
  59. MASINDUU
  60. MASTODON
  61. NAEBAK
  62. NENITESK
  63. NESKHAK
  64. NINKULILEB
  65. OKHALAKX
  66. ONETSENSAST
  67. RUUTSA
  68. SANDUU
  69. SPIKE-BACK
  70. TARAKAST
  71. UGUNKSHAA
  72. UNUTAKH
  73. URUKETO
  74. URUKTOP
  75. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  76. About the Author
  77. About this Title

Since the whole operates better when all parts consciously operate together for the affirmation of the whole which is the reaffirmation of the parts, all Daughters of Life—we who know and understand the Way and Order—by the very fact of our awareness, also have an obligation to spread this knowledge of Life and the Spirit of Life to others. Efeneleiaa’s way is the way of harmony, the way of peace and cooperation among all citizens of her City.

EIGHT

Daughters of Life bear the responsibility to help all others to know the Spirit of Life and the Truth of the Way of Life.

We who know the Way must help others to learn and understand, to consciously follow the Spirit of Life. However when this truth is stated two immensely important questions arise. Firstly, how can we do this in the face of those who will our deaths? Secondly, how can we maintain the peace and harmony that affirms while we continue to live by causing death? Must we cease to eat to avoid killing that which nourishes us?

Firstly, just as every day has two parts, a dark side and a bright side, so do we have two opposed forces dwelling within us. The darkness of the will to death and the brightness of the will to life. So even those who hate us the most have within them the will of life as well, and this is in accord with Efeneleiaa. Our affirmation of life will change those who live in affirmation of death, just as this knowledge changed us.

The answer to the second is that if we do not eat we will die. We sit at the summit of a great vine of interrelated life that begins with insensate plants, continues up through more complex forms of plants to the herbivores to the carnivores, to us. It appears ordained that each cell in this vine of life must exist to nourish the cell above that culminates in Yilanè, then in us, the only part of the vine to understand the totality of it. Therefore there is no act of killing or of death but only the act of nourishing. Taking the life of an animal or fish for food is not the negation of life but a form of the affirmation of life. That life contributes to sustaining another life and thus becomes a way of strengthening life. So it is and so it has been with all life forms in the sea, on land and in the air since the Egg of Time.