The Five Legends, Anasazi Foundation
The Five Legends, Anasazi Foundation
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The Five Legends
A Journey to Heal Divided Hearts

Author: Anasazi Foundation

Narrator: Seth Adam Smith

Unabridged: 2 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 01/08/2019


Synopsis

Drawing on 30 years of helping families, this profound fable by the Anasazi Foundation illustrates the true anguish of conflict and explains how we can end war within ourselves, within our families, and even between nations.

Created in 1988 by renowned wilderness pioneers Larry D. Olsen and Ezekiel C. Sanchez (a Totonac Indian whose native name is Good Buffalo Eagle), the Anasazi Foundation invites young people, through a primitive living experience, to effect a change of heart. For over thirty years, their teachings have helped families begin anew and walk in harmony in the wilderness of the world. 

Inspired by their wisdom, this book tells the story of two brothers whose warring hearts threaten to destroy their lives and their community. Trapped in a canyon, the two brothers are rescued by a mysterious old man who perceives their need for peace. He offers to guide them home - inviting them to open their hearts toward a New Beginning. When they agree, he teaches them the five legends of peace. And as they walk forward, they learn that we are free to create peace in our own lives-and how to do it. This discovery saves not only the brothers but ultimately their people. This poetic narrative offers us all a hopeful way out of the canyons of war, leaving behind the warring within.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea on March 28, 2019

The Five Legends isn't the type of book that I typically seek out, and it honestly took me awhile to sit down and get started. The foreword had a lot of Navajo words and being unfamiliar with the language I stumbled over the mental pronunciation and it halted my progress. However, when I sat back do......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on October 01, 2023

An inspiring tale to teach us the power of "we" over "me". When two brothers quarrel and part ways, their village splits in two. For fifteen years they do not speak or interact people to people. When the older brother seeks the younger brother out when their aging mother is near death, they embark o......more

Goodreads review by Bev on May 27, 2020

This little book caught me by surprise. There is so much meaning in each little story within it that it is something that can be read and reread with deeper meaning gained from each reading.......more