They meet. One day under the cover of the clouds he picks for her a wildflower. She sees him for the first time and so it begins. He fights for the right to join her tribe. He passes the tests. He wins the battles. She shares with him her story of life and fear to be wed to a man she doesn’t love. He shows her through his tenacious perseverance of her love that he can save her and her people from the battle they are raging with nature. By loving him, all her people could be saved.
This is not the way of her people. Love or not, he is not of her kind and she has responsibilities. She is beautiful and sought after and jealousy becomes rampant. She pleads to her father to grant his blessing for her to love the man she chooses. She prays to her God to give her this one gift, allow her this one love. She will leave with him and give her place to another if he will only give her this chance. She will sacrifice all to be with him.
They run away, up to the place of the wildflowers, to their true beginning. They are followed and he is ambushed. She watches in sorrow as he is pushed from the top of the mountain. He becomes water and finds his home surrounded by the memories of their love. She cries out a sacrifice to her god that she will honor her prayer. Take her life that another may save her people. She feels her heart breaking and lays down upon the mountain. With the final rip of her heart she becomes stone. Facing heavenward a constant example to seek the promptings of the heart.
Her tribe overcomes the sadness of the loss and are indeed given the blessings of her sacrifice. Love and service given, blessings and protection received.
The Indian Princess of Mount Timpanogos watch over me.
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