You create with clay, not with sky. Past the sky is the void of space. Why are you looking to the void to find your inspirations and your gods?
Remember your connection to clay that made you, the clay to which your ancestors returned. You are made from the grave dust of a thousand generations before yours. You are a short span of time that eats through life and then is in turn eaten.
A creature of earth, who are tied to the ground you live upon and supported by it. Fear for the future when you eat from the land of another without giving earth back to that land in thanks. This is unsustainable, the center does not hold.
Give thanks to the Earth. Give thanks to Ancestors. Pray to your descendants- to our unborn elders- for you will leave the world to them one day. Death is the return to earth, the becoming of earth that will nourish your descendants. Give yourself willingly to the soil and protect the soil and the health of the soil- for when you do, you protect both your ancestors: who are in the soil, and your descendants: who will be raised by the soil.
The soil is a fortune teller than tells us the future of those who live upon it. The soil is a records keeper that tells the history of those who lived upon it in days past. To take from the soil and not give back, to overwork the soil and not re-nourish it, these things are crimes against tomorrow's children.
Death is not the end of time on earth, not a cutting short. Death is a return to the earth so that you can do your part for the next generation. Death is an accounting for how you have treated the land you lived on. Do not die within a box, leave your nutrients to the earth. If you do this, the earth will feed your children and their children and on into generations unseen.
In the clay beneath your feet will you create your legacy. From the clay beneath your feet will you be judged by your descendants.
