BRAND STORY
Once upon a story, when our world was completely covered with
water, and the only land being the ocean bed floor, our reality was
ruled jauntily… albeit, by the mermaid of a changing name.
Although variations and nuances in the story occurred, many retold
the journey of her finding the sea-weed; that grew from under the
waves, till higher than the blank seemingly endless sky.
Every so often, giant hands were seen reaching down and enacting
great changes in the world below with but a touch, and a prod…
swirling large waves and little ripples alike.
Unbeknownst to the merfolk, these enormous beings would snag the
lank green sea-weed from the grips of the sand, pulling it into their
ritual ether.
Once relinquished from the ocean’s dankness, the weed instantly
dried – no longer of the sea; the green flower was quickly lit against
the embers of far-off stars and inhaled by the giant’s lungs; smoke
erupting from their lips to blanket the world in groups of clouds and
stray plumes.
A single cough could rattle the earth in what we would now call
thunder.
It was the fallen ash that formed the lands of our nowaday homes.
The ash-clusters clumsily tipped back down to the world below. It
sizzled as it hit water, cooling, and producing continents and future
nations in its wake.
Those gargantuan high beings set the water afire, the threat of boil
imminent for all those who remained within the ocean.
Some mer-folk went deeper, to the cold dark wet at the very bottom.
Others went to the ash born lands – adaptation thick in their veins,
mer-tails giving way to legs and feet, allowing them to find solace and
joy in different ways of being.
From there new life was born. New lives made. New plants bloomed,
some even from the pollination of the original, primordial sea-weed.
Norum, was the forgotten name of the old ocean paradise, well at
least at some point before the story upon stories began.
For now, it’s the world above, higher than the first aquatic remnants
below, more interesting perhaps – the Highnorum.
Participate in the ceremony of the giant gods, in HIGHNORUM.
Then send us your version of the story of stories, or the missing story
to high@highnorum.world You know, the type of fables cannabis
connoisseurs will appreciate.
