A prayer shawl is handed down from grandfather to grandson in this story of Jewish tradition and the passage of generations.

Weaves together the famous and forgotten myths of the mysterious Minoans of Crete.

"An old and tired winter wind looks for a place to rest. An oak tree orders the wind away as does a mountain. In frustration the wind gathers into a storm and covers the earth with snow. How will a little girl finally offer the wind rest? Allegedly based on a Jewish tale from Soviet Russia. But the writer of the afterword couldn't find the source of the tale in the Soviet Union." --