Tuesday with Morrie

"As my visits with Morrie go on, I begin to read about death, how different cultures view the final passage. there is a tribe in the North American Artic for example, who believe that all things on earth have a soul that exists in a miniature form of the body that holds it; so that a deer has a tiny deer inside it, and a man has a tiny man inside him. When the large being dies, that tiny form lives on. It can slide into something being born nearby, or it can go to a temporary resting place in the sky, in the belly of a great feminine spirit, where it waits until the moon can send it back to earth. Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls that it disaapears from the sky. that is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all. that is they believe" (Mitch Albom, Tuesday with Morrie)