Muzzu-Kumik-Quae

Muzzu-Kumik-Quae came to be when Kitchi-Manitou created all things. She received the other created peoples and Manitou upon herself. She is all the World, the heart of the earth and waters. An elder Manitou, Earth Woman is tended by the thunderbirds who keep her cooled and cleansed with rains in some places and burn down old-growth forests in others, ensuring a steady cycle of growth and regrowth. She manifests in many forms. She can be almost anything she chooses but most often chooses the form of an old woman.

A famous story has four young men finding her to bring prosperity to the people. She grants them their wish after they tend to her with kindness, as though she were their grandmother. The gifts she gives them are bundles filled with medicine. The young men returned home to their village, made the brew and, drank the medicine. At first they thought they had been swindled. Nothing happened. Then, suddenly, they all died. The people buried them and from their graves sprang the gifts Muzzu-Kumik-Quae had given them for their people. One grave sprouted the evergreen trees, from another sprouted the weegwauss (birch). From the third grave arose flint, and from the last came tobacco. The people would use these gifts and move on to prosperous lives.

While she is fond of giving boons to those who seek her out and have genuine, heartfelt requests, there is a catch. She is a force of nature. She is nature. She is blood and green, soil and rock, wind and storms. There is no life that stands above another in her eyes. Everything must be part of the cycle. To request aid from Muzzu-Kumik-Quae is to know that, somehow, you must give to the cycle of life. She has no care for whether you are vegan or carnivore, a medicine-person or a gangster. The cycle is the cycle, and all things have a place.

Her Scions come in many forms. They find that they have an inherent connection to the Earth and the creatures upon it (including humankind). They excel at such things as hunting, fishing, and farming but are given to rage when viewing excess and abuse of the earth. They can be found in all manner of agricultural and wildlife-oriented pursuits, as well as earth resource and human rights activism.