secret [ se' kret] guarded from discovery; kept hidden; concealed from general knowledge
LEGEND [Lej'end] an unverified popular story handed down from earlier times.
The Inuit Legend of the Daylight Stones

“Many, many moons ago, the World was dark. Far away, in the North, it was very cold. The people lived in ice and darkness. But one day, a Crow told the Northern People of the Daylight he’d seen in his journeys.
The tribe listened with great wonderment. They believed that this Daylight would be most helpful. They would be able to hunt longer and farther; they would see wolf and bear attacks coming upon them; the Daylight would be of great benefit to all. They begged the Crow to bring it to them. Finally, the Crow promised he would . . .
How did this story come to be?
Who were the People of the Dark North?
Where did the crow find the Daylight?
When the world was very old, the continents we now know of were not separated by the seas. Many ancient civilizations held true to similar beliefs even though their paths never crossed . . . or did they? Was Asia attached to North America? Did the Mayans flee their tropical jungles to the icy north? Perhaps Europe and the Americas were, at one time, one big land mass?
And what of the sacred stones,
the gods worshiped,
and the cultures that disappeared?
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