If You Dont Change - Words Of The Kogi Indians

In the beginning there was blackness, only the sea.

In the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people.

In the beginning there were no animals, no plants, only the sea.

The sea was the mother. "The Great Mother created the world in water.

She made the future in it. The mother was not people, she was not anything.

Nothing at all. She was when she was. Spirit. She was memory and possibility.

The Mother bled. She had her period. She was fertile.

The world was fertile. Her blood is gold. It remains in the earth. It is fertility.

Gold and water, blood and water, are necessary for the life of all things.

And then human beings were made, to care for the living things.

The plants. The animals. This is why people were made.

The Great Mother divided up the earth. She sent younger brother  far away.

Far away, far away, and in this place, this place she put us.

Then he came back again and he started to destroy, and he started to kill the earth. 

Stop digging in the earth and stealing the gold. If you go on the world will end.

If you don't change your ways at once, you will see what will happen.

Without the Guardians of the sun and stars, the world will go black.

I don't know when the world will end, but your looting will destroy it.

The rain will not fall from the sky , it will get hotter and hotter from the sky,

The trees won’t grow and the crops won’t grow,  you have taken the clouds.

We know what is happening, The world does not have to end.

If we act well the world can go on.