RDA Archives: Transcript from the Mining Colony on Pandora, 2154.

Jake Sully: There was a festival today, something to do with the celebration of life. Neytiri told me they do this every year. She said they celebrate the fact that they are free and have always been free, and that they don't have to hide the way they did during the Days of Necholod.

I asked her what the Days of Necholod were, but she just gave me that look she always does, you know, when I've said something really stupid. Apparently, there never were any 'Days of Necholod'. That was the reason they were celebrating.

They spent most of the day singing songs and telling stories. They call them the "Songs of Never", because the events they discuss never really happened. There are the songs the kids like—those are the ones about evil demons falling from the sky, trying to destroy all life using dark magic. The kids all joined in. Every time the demons used their evil magic, the kids would all shout, "Scar! Scar!"

Grace Augustine: Ska'a. It means destroy, or wipe out.

Jake Sully: Yeah. That's the word. Ska'a. There was a lot about ska'a. I think the demons came from Ska'a. Or somewhere that sounds like that, at any rate.

There was this other word that kept coming up. I don't know what it means, but it seemed really important. Krrtiranyu. Any idea?

Grace Augustine: It's got to mean something like "Time Walker", but I don't have any idea what that could refer to.

Jake Sully: I don't know. I asked Neytiri, but she said it was hard to explain. She said I wouldn't understand even if she told me. This krrtiranyu thing came up in almost every one of the stories, though. All the older kids are expected to know about it. I asked why, but of course, it's obvious why. It's sacred to Eywa. I mean, I probably should have guessed that.

At the end of the day, I asked Neytiri why they would tell stories about things that never happened. She said the events might not have happened, but they are a part of Eywa, and that makes them real. I think maybe it's some kind of moral tale, to try to teach the kids respect for nature. I asked Neytiri if that was what she meant, but she looked at me like I was an idiot, and said she'd meant exactly what she'd said.

I learned one of the Songs of Never—one of the ones about this krrtiranyu. I wrote it down on this paper, here, hoping that I'd be able to work out a translation later. If I work it out, maybe I can see how to get the Na'vi to leave Hometree, but I don't know. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something deeper to all this. Something we can't even begin to understand.