One afternoon, from the summit of a sacred mountain in the heart of
A violet valley appeared. Trees, mountains, clouds, birds, a river and a child. A child who was the beautiful daughter of Father Sun and Mother Moon.
Dorothy was sent to earth on a solar mission to give life to the flowers and a lunar mission to prepare the earth for winter.
Barefoot she sings and plays while her long tresses and silken skirt dance in the wind.
Lifting her eyes, she spies a cave. Her singing stops. She has a burning desire to climb and know what is inside the cave, inside the earth. She feels it will help her to accomplish her mission.
A path leads to the cave. She brushes away branches, brambles and brier.
A white eagle soars silently. Not a flutter from his wings. From a great height, he calls:
Where are you going? Do not climb that hill. You will never return.
Who are you? Why do you tell me all this?
I live in the entrance to the cave. Please, do not go on!
The beautiful girl, like all women, paid little heed to the bird and forged ahead. In the cave something stirs.
It is Jotrar, King of the Caverns.
Every year, in spring, he ventures forth to breathe the fresh air in the atmosphere and to greet the Sun.
Tall, very tall and dark. He scans the valley. Sighting the sun, his eyes lose their fire in its splendor. Entwining his fingers, he lifts his face toward the Sun and speaks:
Father Sun, you know I love you even if I can see you but for an instant each year. If only there lived a soul who in truth and silence could realize your mission of love. Then my mountains would sing and the pain of loneliness would cease. I am patiently waiting but at times
I ask:
When?
How much longer?
The sun returns the greeting.
The girl keeps climbing. She reaches a golden fig tree whose roots twist in the air. A strange stone blocks off the entrance to the cave. The girl stops to rest. Then she climbs to a second entrance on the next ledge of the cave.
Jotrar hides. He hides because he does not want to frighten the little girl away.
Dorothy is only twelve years old. She is not afraid of the dark. A luminous flower appears to guide her way. The cave becomes too narrow to stand. She has to crawl. A triangular stone is in her way. She slips past it and is able to stand once more. She is inside the cave.
Her dress is radiating blue sparks. It is difficult to breathe. Slowly her eyes become accustomed to the darckness. The floor starts to move as if it were an invisible band. She is brought to a room with high
ceilings.
Suspended in the air, hundreds of silver and crystal-like spheres are spinning. Triangles, rectangles, pentagons and rhombus forms are locked within the shining spheres. She enters another room where
bullet -like lightning rays flash across each other. Astonished.
She lifts her eyes to find a star-studded sky. At the end of this journey she encounters a shining, red sun.
How can there be a shining sun inside the earth?
The invisible band stops and she finds herself before Jotrar.
Welcome, little one.
Who are you? Where were you?
I am Jotrar. I guard the Molecular World.
Molecular?
Here you will find the molds and patterns used to form minerals, ice, precious stones and mountains. You may visit and enter inside them.
Are they that large?
We have duplicated their size a million times.
And the lightning rays?
That is the Electron Field.
I saw a sky filled with stars and a shining sun.
Each tiny molecule has all that you have seen within itself.
Dorothy continued speaking:
I never knew a place like this existed. It is fascinating. Can you imagine? The eagle warned me not to enter. He said it was dangerous.
Jotrar takes the childs hand. They descend in an air -cushioned elevator. As they plunge, the earth looks like a piece of chocolate cake with layers and layers of filling.
Jotrar explains:
That this is a way of telling the earths age. Each past culture is preserved in pieces of clay, bone and fossils. They reach a grotto. A lake of still waters, the home of hundreds of blind fish.
Jotrar opens a metalic door. Incredible! Stalactites encrusted with precious stones, rocks illuminated in orange and gold, shaped like animals and giants. A rock-crystal arm chair.
The throne of Jotrar. Voices are heard. The shadow people greet Jotrar.
Welcome. Lord and Master.
The child cant believe what her eyes behold: machines of the future, electronic brains in continuous movement. A special rocket,
of a snail -like tunnel which is directed toward the North Pole.
Jotrar explains:
That the space ship accomplishes important investigations and exchanges information and knowledge obtained with space ships from other planets.
What do these machines control, Jotrar?
They guard and control the sun fire that has survived in the center of the earth. The electronic brains regulate the internal pressure of the earth. In case of emergency, if the temperature soars, we open the mouths of a few volcanos. The vapor pressure also has constant vent through the geysers.
Time ran on. The girl was so happy she forgot that she lived in the atmosphere and that they might be searching for her.
Which was exactly wath was happening. Mother Moon was weary looking for her daughter. Nobody seemed to know anything.
She asked Father Sun. He told her that Dorothy was last seen entering the
Dear eagle, will you go and look for her?
My dear lady, Jotrar does not favor anyone entering his cave.
Go in my name. Tell him that Dorothy has a special mission here on earth, that cannot be forsaken.
The eagle flew to the second entrance. She flew through the dark tunnel. The invisible band started to move. The eagle was afraid:
Where are you taking me? I want to get off!
Her feathers stood on end when she saw the lightning rays.
She was valiant. A valiant eagle. She squeezed her eyes shut and clamped her beak.
Descending the air elevator she arrived bathed in perspiration to the
To what do we owe the honor of your visit?
The eagle moved her beak but nothing happened. No sound emerged!
Dorothy recognized her. She came closer and caressed the birds feathers, her head, as she whispered:
Fear not. Nothing will harm you. How did you get here?
Why did you come?
My child, your mother is looking for you. I have come in her name to greet King Jotrar and to ask you to return. Nothing is the same without you. Your mission awaits you.
Jotrar was pensative. Then he extended his right hand and commanded:
Dorothy, you must return. Mother Moon is asking for you and you must not keep her waiting. Thank you for your company.
May I return someday?
You shall always be welcome, little one.
The child and the eagle returned to the valley. It was freezing cold. There were no flowers. It was winter and the seasons had not changed.
Mother Moon was waiting.
In silence, she listened to Dorothys experience. She had the sensation that her little girl, her beloved Dorothy, had changed. Perhaps she had grown up.
Mother, may I return to Jotrars Kingdom. He is so intelligent.
You have no idea of all that I have seen, the wonderful time
I had...and...
Time passed. Journeys and journeys around the sun. Each spring equinox, Jotrar came out to greet the Sun. He thought about the girl, about Dorothy. The child with such a loving mission to accomplish on earth. He wondered what had happened to her.
Dorothy, had become a lovely woman. A lovely woman who constantly thought of Jotrar and his world.
One day, she returned to the cave. She waved hello to the eagle. Entered. Descended in the air elevator to the grotto.
The metalic door opened.
Jotrar, king of the Caverns, was seated on his rock-crystal throne.
Dorothy stood before him in silence.
Jotrar stood as he spoke:
Dearest Dorothy...It has been so many years without hearing from you. Where have you been?
On my mission. Mother Moon counseled me to return to you when I grew up.
I knew you would return.
Dorothy came close to Jotrar. Sweetly she held his face and looked into his eyes.
Dorothy. Why have you taken so long to return? I have thought about you. I need you here. Stay beside me during the winter months, when the earth is at rest.
When she visits her father in a space ship from the center of the earth, there is a shower of stars.
When she stays by Jotrars side in the
It was dusk when the tale, projected on a circular rock in the sacred valley ended.
I have told you exactly what I saw...
