The Creation of the Amazon River: An Amazonian Folktale that Teaches Lessons on Balance and Sacrifice
Long before the forest stretched endlessly beneath the sky, and before the great river carved its winding path through the land, the world of the Amazon was out of balance. The earth lay dry and cracked beneath the sun. Once-fertile soil crumbled into dust, and the plants that had fed both people and animals withered under the relentless heat. Streams
