![]() ![]() Any government that fails to protect them forfeit its legitimacy” (Starhawk, 1993). No one has the right to appropriate them or profit for them at the expense of others. To call these things sacred, is to say that they have a value beyond the usefulness for humans ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, our purposes must be judged. ![]() ![]() Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. They have chosen to honor the Four Sacred Things that sustain life. They live simply, help one another, and, above all, value the earth and its elements.Īfter a violent revolution, the people of this not-so-distant future San Francisco decided they want to live life differently- live a life in harmony and appreciation for the environment. While the rest of the country, and presumably the world, suffers through extreme corruption and poverty, the people of San Francisco seem to have figured it out. Inside Starhawk’s visionary novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing (Bantam, 1993), lies a lush, thriving community of people in post-revolutionary California who have adopted an earth-based, ecofeminist set of values and ideas. ![]()
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