The Books of Great Alta Author:Jane Yolen And the prophet says that a white babe with black eyes shall be born until a virgin in the winter of the year. The ox in the field, the hound at the hearth, the bear in the cave, the cat in the tree, all, shall bow before her, singing "Holy, holy, holiest of sisters who is both black and white, both dark and light, your coming is the beginning ... more »and it is the end." Three times shall her nother die and three times hall she be orphaned and she shall be set apart that all will know her.« less