First Book of Unicorn: Hoofesis. Chapter 3.
Reconstruction and the advent of humankind.
1 So sombre and downcast were the gatherings of the gods that they tended to repair to the banks of the Styx, so the havoc wreaked by their match might not seem as dire in their endeavours to restore the Earth.
2 Jehovah had given up making plonk and Thor had ceased to offer up his goats for the feast.
3 In the midst of one of these gatherings appeared Maturin again, and all eyed him with suspicion.
4 "Be not so, brethren of mine", said he, "for your act may yet be counted among the greatest in the raising of new grass."
5 "Look ye upon the face of the earth and see. The ash and blood hath made the soil rich to bear green blade. 'Tis the way, surely, to continue our stewardship."
6 And their hearts gladdened ever as they thought upon the death of the beast and plant alike.
7 And a terrible lust for death awoke in the hearts of the gods, unmindful of the Unicorn's One Command.
8 As if preordained, the first woman and man walked out of a forest as the gods lost themselves in reveries o mayhem and slaughter.
Battle, poetry and blood.
9 The following night, they repaired back to Valhalla, now become a hall of warriors of sword and might.
10 Each would playfully attempt to defeat the other, to hack and maim the other, according to their skills and station.
11 It so happened that Jehovah divided into four, one of them, a winged one.
12 In the course of battle, Panchanana also divided into five, as to best him, and the others, for they were of proud and lordly bearing, and of hand ungentle.
13 Each battle being over, they would repair to the feast, to sing of their prowess in songs of resonating thunder.
14 And the mortal men upon the green earth heard their echoes and wrote books of lore, books of war, of wanton destruction and domination over friend and foe alike.
15 And they became as slaves unto the books, and their growth was forever stunted. Mother would kill child, and man would kill anyone.
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