A Native American myth recounts that Creator gathered all of creation one day and said, “I want to hide something from humans until they are ready for it: It is the realization that they can create their own life and their own reality.”
Eagle said, “Give it to me; I’ll take it to the moon and hide it there.”
But Creator said, “No, one day they will go to the moon and will find it.”
Then Salmon said, “Give it to me; I’ll hide it in the bottom of the sea.”
“No,” said the Creator, ” They’ll get there, too.”
Well, then Buffalo came and said, “Give it to me; I’ll bury it in the Plains.”
Creator said, “No, they will get there. They will cut into the skin of the earth, and they will find it even there.”
But then Grandmother Mole came, the one that has no physical eyes to see on the outside but has spiritual eyes and the capacity to see within, and she said, “Put it inside them; they’ll never find it there.”
And Creator said, “It is done.”