Origin Myth
Russ Getz
Langlois
English 3
25 August 2008
The Beginning of Time
In the beginning nothing existed: no earth, no sky, no sun, no moon, only darkness. Then suddenly a small dot appeared. Within minutes it was gargantuan, almost like the size of a planet. But what was funny, was that it had this weird looking blue stuff on it, with small green splotches. When you zoomed in closer to it, you notice that there is odd colored shapes moving around on the green splotches. They’re grouping together and it appears that they are talking. The really tall yellow one with brown spots talks to the really short, fat, and gray one and asks, “What are we and what are we standing on?” The gray one replies, “I don’t know, but look there is some sort of strange tablet over there, lets go look and see what it says.” The tall one reads, “It says that you are rhino and I am giraffe and that we are called animals and what we are standing on is called ground, and what ground is on is called Earth. “Hmm, interesting”, the rhino replies. So, what we have here is a rhino and a giraffe standing on ground, on the planet earth. Let’s look on the other side of this so called earth and see what’s going on shall we?
As we are zooming in we see that there are more so called animals. These animals aren’t tall or short; they’re really small and fly around above the ground. They’re talking to each other. A blue one asks a red one, “Do you have any idea what we are?” The red one replies, “Not a clue, but look there is some strange tablet thing, lets check it out.” They go over there and look and it says: “You are called birds and what you fly in is called the sky and the big fiery ball above your head is called the sun.” So what we are looking at here is birds, and they fly around in the sky, and apparently the big ball of fire in the sky is called the sun and it lights and heats the earth. Now what I’m wandering is, what is the blue stuff around the ground? Lets go in for a...
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