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Trees Are Traditional
By 808 HERNDON
(The following is taken from
the Anderson Independent)
What would Christmas be
without the greenery of the
hemlock, pine, cedar and hol
ly?
And in the Blue Ridge
, Mountains (Sa-ka-na-ga) and
Smokies of the Carolinas and
Georgia, the majestic hill co
untry would be nearly un
bearable in winter if the hem
lock didn’t troop up from the
valleys - rising like church
spires.
Have you ever inwardly
asked: "Why God blessed some
trees and shrubs with the touch
of greenness, yet created the
deciduous oaks, hickories and
poplars?”
There’s a pristine story of
' God’s eternal gift to the balsam,
laurel, rhododendron, pine, sp
ruce and cedar that is told
around glowing hearths this
time of year.
It’s worth repeating.
The story might have come
from the Bible, for there is a
Biblical parable about it. Per
haps this is because it illus
trates the wonderous blessings
God bestows upon those who
let nothing keep them from ca
rrying out His wishes.
The story was handed to this
generation by Mose Owl, the last
of the great Cherokee Indian
storytellers and the keeper of
his people’s myths and legends.
"It’s as old as the hills,”
Mose once said, "the old men
told it to me when I was a
boy. They heard it from old
men when they were boys.”
The noted mountain author
John Parris, among numerous
other writers, has recorded the
old legand.
"It happened when the world
was being made. Back at the
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lated.
"When God made the world
He first made the animals and
plants to live in it and on it.
He put the animals and plants
on earth and told them to watch
and stay awake for seven nights.
Just like in olden times, the
young men of the tribe fasted
and kept awake when they pr
ayed to their medicine man.
"Well, the animals and pl
ants tried to do this. Most all
of them stayed awake during
the first night. But the second
night several of them dropped
off to sleep. The third night
and subsequent nights-others
fell asleep.
"And so it went until the se
venth night. Among the animals
and birds only the owl and
panther and one or two more
were still awake. To these that
kept the vigil, God gave the
power to see and go about in
the dark.
"Of the trees, only the hem
lock and the cedar, the pine
and the spruce, the balsam
and the holly, the laurel and the
rhododendron stayed awake th
roughout all seven nights.
"And God rewarded them for
carrying out Hi s wishes. He
told them that they always will
be green and that they would
supply "great medicine to all
ages.”
"But to all the others that
had failed to keep watch, God
told them that because they had
not endured to the end they would
loose their hair every winter.
“That’s why the oak, hickory,
dogwood, poplar, sourwood and
others-except the ones God Bl
essed-lose their leaves every
autumn.
And each Christmas season
and winter-about this time-the
story is repeated by many a
grandparent to their heirs as
the family group nestles around
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While outside, all across the
mountain landscape there is the
beauty of the evergreens coming
into their glory among the trees
that failed to keep the watch
when the world was in the mak
ing.
And each of them-the holly
with its red berries, the pine,
the spruce, the balsam, the
cedar and the rhadodendron
will contribute gifts of ever
fresh, every - green bright
ness to the winter season.
For theirs is the eternal gift
of God.
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