
(And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels, we are surprised. He sets himself apart from woman and nature.Īnd so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converses with the wolf, Dorothy who befriends a lion, Snow White who talks to the birds, Cinderella with mice as her allies, the Mermaid who is half fish, Thumbelina courted by a mole. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That she hears voices from under the earth. WOMAN AND NATURE: THE ROARING INSIDE HER (1978)
