The Three Lakes of Life
GiaB writing prompt #14 being in nature
The Tale fiction for it is what I do.
The lakes are real, an easy hike for you.
Travel to the Utes land in the USA.
Find the Big Cottonwood Canyon, they say.
It is said that the three Godbrothers of the ancient tribe of the Uwint carved from the mountain valley the lakes of life, naming them after the Mother Goddesses. Ferien, the bringer of fish, created the greater lake and named it after the Goddess Blanche, the bringer of plenty. Ferien filled Blanche’s waters with fish providing an abundant food source for the Uwints People. There they did dwell and pray.
Then looking at his brother Lurien, Ferien worried about the people's thirst. Lurien followed the flowing water from the Mother Goddess Blanche to a small valley not very far away. There he carved a bowl where the water pooled before continuing down the canyon. Lurien called the waters Lillian for the Mother Goddess of water. Lurien, seeing that the Uwint people labored day and night to tame the land, looked to his brother Venlien. Lurien asked, “Shall the people wash the hard labor…
