The young dolphin Morning Star, who feels different and estranged from her family pod becomes captured and taken to a petting zoo aquarium. During her captivity, she helps discover a method of inter-species communication. Star also realizes that humans are causing the many ecological problems in the sea. Determined to restore balance, she escapes and goes on a quest to find a way to heal her Mother Ocean.

The young dolphin Morning Star, who feels different and estranged from her family pod becomes captured and taken to a petting zoo aquarium. During her captivity, she helps discover a method of inter-species communication. Star also realizes that humans are causing the many ecological problems in the sea. Determined to restore balance, she escapes and goes on a quest to find a way to heal her Mother Ocean.

The story of Lying Down Mountaincontinues the story of White Buffalo woman and her journey through the land of the Lying Down Mountain, the land of the Hopi Nation. Heyoka Merrifield was born into a culture that, for him, had no functioning mythology. He has since wandered the earth and searched throughout history to find myths to guide his life. Sitting in ceremony with tribal peoples in North America, Africa, Europe, Asia and South America, Heyoka opened himself to the stories that felt good in his heart. The stories of the Hopi people resonated deeply within, so he wrote Lying Down Mountainfrom his own imaginings of how life might have been thousands of years ago. The Hopi, whose name means Peaceful, still live in the oldest inhabited village in the United States. Their mythology is of great importance and holds wisdom that will help our children's children continue to walk on this Mother Earth.

More than 3,600 years ago, the world stood poised between two very different fates. In the largest eruption in recorded history, Mt. Thera unleashed catastrophic climatic changes, heralding the ascent of our Aryan ancestors at the expense of older cultures. One of these threatened groups, the People of the Painted Earth Temple, represented the last of a dying breed: the hunter-gatherers of Europe. Separated from its nearest neighbours by weeks of travel through the Alps, their village seemed invulnerable to the changes around them. But nothing could stop the Aryan tide. And the People of the Painted Earth Temple were forced to leave Gaia's land on an odyssey that would take them over the land bridge - and into the New World. Building on the beautiful epic he began with Eyes of Wisdom, beloved storyteller Heyoka Merrifield continues the Native American saga of White Buffalo Woman, taking readers back to her deep origins in the cave cultures of Europe. Painted Earth Templereconnects us with a mythic tale both sacred and endangered - a connection to sacred Earth that binds east and west, past and present.

In this first volume of "The White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, " author Heyoka Merrifield celebrates the sacredness of nature and the return of a culture hidden by time. "Eyes of Wisdom" offers a deeply moving narration of life and ceremony on the plains that is richly interwoven with Native American and other mythic traditions. The author draws inspiration from the legend of White Buffalo Woman, his vision quests, and experiences in the Sun Dance lodge.