So it was that at these times when the wind was not so fast as to tumble the little wavelets and make them lose their jewels, and the clouds were elsewhere doing the grand dance of the clouds, that the older waves would get together just under the surface and make the little waves. Then the little waves would make their own little jewels and dance to the surface for the Sun. Generally speaking a wave does not live for very long. Most of the older waves are no more than one hundred years old. Though many are much older than that, only a few are really old. Zeela knew several that were old when she was young and just learning to polish and care for the jewels. If you were to try to count the number of jewels that Zeela had polished by counting grains of sand, then you would quickly run out of sand.

When Zeela was younger, she would have to polish each jewel very carefully then check it twice to be sure that it was polished properly. Now of course she knew very well how to polish the new jewels just right, so that the small wavelets would grow healthy and strong. So now Zeela had time after her dance to lie on sandy beaches or rocky cliffs to watch the waves dance with her father the Sun.

Many ages and ages ago, before even the oceans existed, the Mother Earth and the Father Sun had a child. They named the child Lune', because of her soft and subtle glow. Lune' grew and grew until she could no longer set in her mothers lap. Then she began to wander the heavens. She traveled for a very long time and visited her distant relatives, learning new dances everywhere that she went. Eventually she returned to her home and began to dance so that her parents could watch with pride and joy at the sight of their daughters dance that she had learned out in the heavens.

While Lune' traveled, her parents became lonely and had other children. They named them all, and each began to grow and learn and then to perform the dances of their own. One child who was named Lodogin grew and learned to dance under the mountains, his dance pleased the mountains, so that when they danced, they did not begin bumping into each other. Lodogin was an impetuous child, and although he was eager to please his parents with his dance, at times he would move the mountains so quickly that the other children would complain that the mountains were disrupting their own dances. Mother Earth would then speak soothingly to all of her children, and all would be calm once again.

Once after Lune' had returned, Lodogin began moving mountains in a frenzy. He was merely attempting to gain some attention from Mother Earth, as it seemed that now the only time that she spoke to him was after the other children complained. Of course she was very busy now being Mother to all of her children, and many of them were much younger than Lodogin. Lune' had become very wise in her maturity, and when she saw that Lodogin was again misbehaving, she spoke to him. Lune' tried to calm Lodogin with stories of the slow and majestic dances of the heavens. He became angry instead, and jealous that Lune', being the first Earth child, had learned to please Mother and Father with all the dances that she had learned in her travels. Quickly Lune' realized that he was becoming more and more angry, so that she stopped speaking and resumed her dance.

Mother Earth spoke sternly with Lodogin and he became quiet and calm, but he did not stop being angry and jealous. After that time when lodogin danced, his steps were slow and deliberate and he thought of what had happened. He would at times between steps look out of from the mountains and see the other children happily doing their dances. He saw the forests as they danced upon and around the mountains. Slowly he began to form hateful thoughts of the forests, and even more slowly he began forming his thoughts into beasts. Horrendous beasts that ate the forests that danced on the mountains. Being made of hate, the beasts soon began eating each other as well as the forests. These beasts that were made of Lodogins hate, that today we call `Dinosaurs' did not learn any dance, and soon became so violent and ugly that Mother Earth came to Lodogin and told him that he must be rid of his beasts.

Lodogin refused.

Father Sun heard this and became very angry. He slew all the beasts that Lodogin had made and all their progeny. Then he spoke to Lodogin and told him that he was never to make beasts again.

Mother Earth told her son Lodogin that if he truly wanted beasts, then he would have them. But they would be made of love, not hate. So that soon Father Sun and Mother Earth made all sorts of beautiful creatures with wonderous dances, the fishes of the sea, birds in the air, worms for the soil, and horses and almost all the creatures that share our earth today. Because his parents were trying very very hard to please Lodogin, they made many creatures and after each attempt they would show it to him. But Lodogin was never pleased with any of the love creatures that were made for him, instead he spent all his time deep inside a mountain thinking ever more hateful thoughts.

After a time Father Sun and Mother Earth realized that it was futile trying to please Lodogin and they stopped making creatures. Many of the creatures that they had made were very close to the beasts of Lodogin, some ate of the forests and some ate of other creatures but all existed out of love.

Deep in his mountain, Lodogins thoughts turned to revenge and soon he determined to destroy the creatures that his parents had made, as his had been destroyed. He leaped to his feet with a roar and began a dance of destruction. Before his Father the Sun could stop him, Lodogin had caused whole mountains to crash together, destroying them and all the creatures that lived between them. His rage was puny compared to that of his Father, who judged that Lodogin must never dance again, and stripped his dance from him, then sent him away to live as he may if he would never cause destruction again. Ages passed before any creature or child could gaze at the Father Sun because of the heat of his anger.

Lodogin was and is the only Earth Child ever to be without a dance. In despair he crawled deep within the mountains, and there he stayed for a very long time. Lodogin never was completely evil, being made of love from his parents. Though lonely and confused, he dared not return to the surface and face his fathers wrath, so that eventually in despair he concluded that he would make his own family. After a time he had so wrapped his thoughts in planning his own family that he began to forget his past hatred and jealousy. Then came the day that Lodogin did come to the surface and came upon a secluded valley close to the mountains that once he danced for. There he carefully made the first man and the first woman. He spoke to them and awakened them with their names, the man he named Ada, and the woman he named Eva. Lodogin told them that he loved them as they were his children and told them that all within the valley was theirs.

Mother Earth and Father Sun were extremely concerned about Lodogins new creatures and of course Father Sun was ready to destroy them immediately. Mother said to wait and they did. Soon it was obvious that Ada and Eva were made of love, without a trace of hate. So the Grandparents of Ada and Eva watched with increasing pleasure as the first people learned their dances and performed them for Lodogin. The dances were good and all was well for a very long time.

Finally Lodogin was happy and content with his life and spent much of his time sleeping on the mountainside, waking to speak with his children and to watch them dance. For many ages it was thus, until one day while Lodogin was sleeping deep in a mountain, a very old serpent came into the valley and met Ada and Eva. The serpent had never seen people before, and he knew all of the Earth children and the creatures. Long before Lodogin made Ada and Eva he had planned their every detail very carefully, and remembering his Fathers anger at how his beasts had eaten the forests and each other he made these two creatures like himself and the other Earth Children so that they did not eat of the forest nor of other creatures nor would they have children of their own. Being prideful of his creation, Lodogin did not tell Ada or Eva of the Earth Mother or of the Sun Father and not a word of the myriad aunts and uncles that inhabited the land and sea and sky.

While speaking to Ada and Eva the serpent began telling them of these Earth children and their parents and the oceans and the sky and all of the things that Lodogin had not told them of. Being a true serpent, while speaking to the people and moving through the valley the serpent caught and ate a rabbit. Eva asked the serpent how and why he did this. Astounded that the people did not eat, he told them that all of the creatures of the Earth ate, some ate of the forests and some ate of other creatures. This is how creatures were made, to do thusly. Curious that she had never ate, Eva plucked a fruit from one of the many trees that grew in the valley and bit into it. She marvelled at the taste and sensation of eating the fruit and so offered it to Ada. Ada ate it and liked it so Ada and Eva began plucking and eating all the fruits that they could reach. The serpent, seeing the people so busy with their eating, left them and the valley and returned to his home to sleep.

After a time Ada and Eva found that eating the fruit was not as pleasant as it had been at first, and they stopped to lay down and speak of all the new things the serpent had told them about. While they were doing this Ada and Eva began to be ill. Lodogin had not made his creatures that they should eat of the forests or of other creatures. Soon Eva began crying out in pain, and Ada was too ill to try to help her and then he too cried out. For a time they made a terrible noise and they woke Lodogin with their cries.

When Lodogin arrived, he could see that his children had eaten the fruit and knew that they would die. He became angry that his beautiful creatures would soon be gone. He asked Ada why they had eaten the fruit. And Ada told Lodogin of the serpent and that the serpent had told them of the Earth Mother and had told them to eat. Then the old anger of Lodogin flared mightily, for he felt that the serpent had come to this valley only to entice his children into destroying themselves by eating. Now even though Ada and Eva were mortally sick, the anger of Lodogin frightened them so that they ran from him and hid.

The rage that burst through Lodogin destroyed the love of his children in an instant, and he did not notice that they had run from him. He knew that Ada and Eva would soon die and he felt as if they had died when they took the first bite of fruit and so he left the valley and returned to his old place of hiding and his old hateful thoughts.

When the serpent awoke he returned to the valley to speak with Ada and Eva. But when he found them they were close to death, hidden from sight in a thicket. He asked them why they were dying, but they did not know and could only tell the serpent that their father had been angry and abandoned them. The serpent had lived for a long time and knew that only the Earth mother could help, feeling somehow responsible for the plight of these people he asked the Mother to look here and help.

As is sometimes the case, the Earth Mother had been busy being Mother to her children elsewhere, but she heard the serpents need and came to the valley. She saw that her grandchildren were dying and after speaking with the serpent she quickly knew that she would have to make drastic changes in Ada and Eva to save them.

The first man and first woman slept for days as Earth Mother carefully unmade them, taking care with each bit of them. Then just as careful She remade them, but she made them as the other creatures, they could eat of the forests or of other creatures and they would have children of their own. Ada and Eva had been Children of the child of the Earth Mother and Sun Father. Had they not eaten they would have lived forever, now they were creatures as the other creatures, much finer made, but creatures still. Ada and Eva would live for a very very very long time, yet there would come a time for them to die.

For the time though they lived, and danced and made children. Their children grew and learned and danced and learned and learned. Soon, the only dances that people could not perform were the most complicated elemental dances that only the oceans, the sky, and fire could do. And they sang the first songs of the world.

Lodogin stayed hidden deep in his hatred during these days, ignoring all pleas from his parents to come out and rejoice in the dances of his children. All he would say was that his children are dead and that his parents had murdered them.

To this day, Lodogin resides deep in the earth beneath the mountains, and his children live upon the earth forever separated.