A love story between a chief’s daughter and the invisible Wind unfolds with mythic clarity and deep melancholy, where longing transcends the earthly and echoes into the sky. Cowles’s retelling is simple, but devastating: the voice in the wind is grief, and the face in the moon is waiting.

A boastful Drake, a wounded Falcon, and the slow-turning wheel of retribution—this Sioux tale, retold by Charles and Elaine Eastman, carries the elegant moral weight of oral tradition: survival may demand speed, but justice prefers patience. In a world where the sky remembers, even the boastful must watch their wings.

In this richly symbolic Cherokee myth retold by James Mooney, death, grief, and cosmic balance unfold across a sky-spanning tale of revenge, resurrection, and irreversible loss. The daughter of the Sun—transformed into a redbird—reminds us that some doors, once opened, can never be closed again, and that even divine light can mourn.

A tale of reverence and resurrection, The Hunter centers on Kanistagia—a protector of the gentle beasts and scourge of the cruel—whose death in battle inspires a forest-wide vigil and one of the most tender funeral rites in folklore. Canfield’s telling, rich in animistic kinship and cosmic mercy, reveals a world where the animals mourn, the birds retrieve the soul, and even the dew from an eagle’s back holds the power to mend what war has torn.