Valley Spirit

Translation by Tree Buffalo

valley spirit
Photo by Dan Burchmore

The valley spirit never dies.

You can think of it as the unknown mother.

She is known as the unknown mother because she gives birth to all known things.

Barely perceptible, she forever spins her silky wisp.

Perpetually available yet utterly inexhaustible.


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Read some of the first English translations of Chapter 6 here.

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