Old Gaiad/17

Among the many sons of Euka there arose many kingdoms

Among these kingdoms three were the greatest: the Kingdom of Plantus, the kingdom of Mygus, and the Kingdom of Metazo. The three great houses that ruled them were proud of the glory they achieved. Alongside the lesser kingdoms of Mygaster, Kelpus, Rhizar, Cilliofer, Oomy, and Myzo

The sons of Metazo The sons of Plantus The sons of Mygus The sons of Mygaster The sons of Kelpus The sons of Foramer The sons of Cilliofer The sons of Oomy The daughters of Myxo The scions of these houses built their own cities. Forming entire kingdoms with their cities.

The sons of Metazo and Anima came to be known as animals

The sons of Mygus and Funga came to be known as fungi

The sons of Plantus and Virita came to be known as plants

The original Animal Kingdom Metazo and Anima founded the Animal kingdom. They built a small city on a rock

Among their citizens were the Choanocytes, the great endodermal men, The Archaeocytes, the great mesodermal women, and the Pinacocytes, the great ectodermal people

Early Animals Metazo and Anima begat Therion

Therion begat Porifer and Thallus and Cloudi

Thallus became the ancestor of the great geometric ones

Those who attached themselves with holdfasts and had Choanoderms extending in every which way

Cloudi extended his ectoderm up with him

Cloudina daughter of Cloudi took the path of growing with the sediment while Namacalathus son of Cloudi elevated himself higher than the ground

Sons of Cloudi The mysterious cities of Namacalathus son of Cloudi we will never know their secrets

sons of Namacalathus Porifer was the first sponge. He made his ectoderm his protector with patches of sheltered choanocytes.

Porifer begat Wallas

Wallas lived his life like his father, but he soon saw danger ahead

A storm was approaching.

And so Wallas ordered his shieldmaidens to pull on their pseudopods as much as they could around the pores.

Smooth muscle cells, like the shieldmaidens of old These shieldmaidens became the first muscles. These pores would later become our mouths and anuses

Modern muscle forms and organizations Wallas begat Solenos

Solenos Solenos sent his holes through his city and they sent water through, so he collected more fish and how city prospered

Solenos begat Leucon and Sponga

Leucon and Sponga begat Vitrius and Spongius

Leucon Leucon son of Solenos went a step further, he was a Leuconoid sponge. He filled his entire city with a labyrinth of gates and fishermen. His city grew massive. The sons of Leucon built cities of countless forms

Many sponge plans The eldest son of Leucon was named Vitrius. Vitrius threw a stone at Leucon and killed him, before claiming the throne for himself. He built a great glass house as a symbol of his power, and forced the peasants to work themselves to death for him, he even merged them into a hive mind. When his younger brother Spongius asked him why he killed his father he had one response “Leucon was a tyrant, he worked the people to death to create his canals”, then he ran into his house of glass and said to Spongius “I am invincible and just, for the will of God is on my side and the people love me”. Spongius threw a stone at Vitrius, it broke through his glass house and killed him instantly, then calmly over the corpse of Vitrius Spongius said “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. To this day we continue to quote Spongius whenever someone demonstrates hubris like Vitrius.

The sons of Vitrius became the glass sponges, forming isolated communities on the fringes of the known world.

Sons of Vitrius today Spongius ruled justly and kindly to the people. His two legitimate sons: Aristos and Demos would create their own cities.

Demos ruled efficiently yet conservatively. Most sponges of the world are descended from Demos.

Among them were the great green sons of Spongillus who farm everywhere. They even farm in Siberia, the great lake Baikal that freezes over every year under the sign of Scorpio

Sons of Spongillus in Siberia Alongside them are the great hunter sponges, the sons of Chondrocles

Carnivorous Sponges Aristos bore two sons: Anu and Calcidoros

Forms of the sons of Aristos a: Leuconoid, b Sylleibid, c Syconoid, d Asconoid Calcidoros built the simplest most optimal forms with the blessings of his namesake Calcifer over Silico. He built in all forms across the growing reefs in the tropics

Anu was the most unique. He built with basement membranes, and so he’s unique among all the sponges