>>6037104The uniting monomyth of the Hoon peoples occupying the Great Earth region of the main continent.
>In the time when man was Soil, working only Clay, four gods descended from the Blue (air, wind; atmosphere) to the Green (vegetable life; earth, soil; matter)>Tabaq of the Thinking Cloud>Djandja of the Seeing Cloud>Affyun of the Dreaming Cloud>Yaot of the Questing Cloud>Said they to themselves>How shall we return again among the clouds>Now we are hurled down to this Green?>For surely now we are gross flesh>And none but White (light; spirits) may dwell with White.>They conferred to silence until despair>when they saw the Children of Annunn, the Favorites of Agamm: the race of Man.>Said the four gods, lo>See these Brown (sentient life; Man) that work the Red (fire; energy)>and make the Green give forth White and Black (iron; metals).>Let us surrender to them our Selves to be their slaves>That when they work us through the Red and the Black and the Green and the Brown>We can rise White to White again>So did the Great Hoon gain the sacred Leaf, and Stem, and Bloom, and RootThus the Great Peoples (the tribal nations of the Hoon) have ever made their pipes in the following construction:
A bronze or iron, and lately steel, bowl and brazier cap; followed by a clay or porcelain, lately glass and crystal, stem; a tusk or horn, lately nacre and plastic, mouthpiece.
The act of tending, harvesting, curing, and other preparations of are regarded as skilled, sacred work; the culminating act, the Holy Smoke, is the opening and closing of all traffic and accord among the Hoon, and with all participants, an absolute Taboo.
-Vistae Anciens, The Trans Pelargic Journal of Psychoanthropology; Drs DuWant, Sadie-Leigh, and Cheems
