Luha and the Giants of God, Book Three of the Earth Woman Tree Woman Quartet

Quartet Overview
The Earth Woman Tree Woman Quartet is a near future fantasy with a progressive political bent, a diverse set of characters, and links to recordings of many original songs.
Ninas Twei is the mystical place where all of Earth’s species dance and sing together to ensure the continuance of life on Earth – all, that is, except Homo sapiens. Greed and the lust for power has barred them from the dance.
Giselle, an activist school teacher, finds herself called to a small rural community to join a group of people who, becoming their Tla Twein (mythical animals or gods), are able to travel to Ninas Twei.
Gathering an increasingly diverse group of people from the city, the country, and the world, the Tla Twein engage in a life and death struggle to heal the rift in the natural order and defeat the forces of greed.
Giselle, the Earth Woman Tree Woman, joins with the Wolfwind, and together they become all things – earth, air, and water; flora and fauna – a compassionate force for the well-being of the earth.
Book Three: Luha and the Giants of God
Tata and Luhanada, drifting in grayness since their deaths, can hear each other calling, but their voices are farther and farther away.
Tata is not at Ninas Twei, but somewhere among the stars where he is taken on a wild journey to the beginning of the universe “sucked in to a tiny lump with all the quarks, and leptons, and dark neutralinos.” They travel through time with the Big Bang, experiencing the creation of stars and galaxies, finally discovering once living planets that are dead. “Why?” he asks the Neutralinos who accompany him. “Greed,” they respond.
Luha finds herself back in Ninas Twei by the Weaving Tree without Tata, now in cougar form forever. She must rescue Enid and Jesús on her own.
She leaps down the crevice where the children fell, finding a huge cavern split by a deep canyon filled with gray eggs as big as a small room. Across the canyon in a smaller cave is a strange very symmetrical city. The children’s scent leads to the edge of the canyon, but if there is a way into the canyon it must be in the strange city.
She hides as men begin leaving the outer buildings, heading for the octagonal tower at the center of the city. The sculpted outer walls are covered with disturbing images. She explores the city, but sees no evidence of the children. The men, standing on a raised platform in front of the tall building, gather frightened women and children in front of them with the intention of publicly punishing some of them for disobeying. Incensed, Luha screeches a cougar scream and leaps to the platform, standing protectively over one of the women and a small child. The men fire automatic weapons at her, but the bullets disappear in her body. She is, after all, already dead.
The men flee inside, and the women back to the outer buildings, except for Kujikali, a young girl who had been slated for punishment. Kuji tells Luha about the underground city, a secret “retreat center” for a group of powerful men who call themselves the Giants of God. Luha takes Kuji back up the crevice to Ninas Twei. Kuji changes form and becomes her Tla Twei, the goddess Durga.
Luha returns to the city to look for the children and is captured by the men who lock her in a cage.
Kuji explores Ninas Twei gathering others who like Tuwillia and Singing Swan have come to Ninas Twei after their death as their Tla Twei to save Ninas Twei from the terrible earthquakes they have all felt.
In the big gray eggs at the bottom of the canyon Enid and Jesús, whose labor is used to provide electricity for the city, aren’t waiting to be rescued. They find a way out of their eggs and work to rescue the people trapped in the other eggs. The escaped prisoners find a way into the basements below the city. There is no one there, but two elevators seem to go up into the city above. One of the elevators starts humming. Someone is coming.