Old Gaiad/32

While the Molluscs were growing strongly we must not forget the foundation of Mithra’s Empire

First Amaterasu blesses us with light. A millionth reaches Terra’s seas

And so the daughters of Bacta farm with her light. First among them the daughters of Saya

Cylindrospermum – Blue Green Algae, microscope photograph The sons of Viros take their share from the daughters of Saya.

And so the viruses were predators and the daughters of Saya were prey

By the viruses came a new link

The daughter of Pelagia The daughters of Pelagia, the benevolent sisters of the mitochondria ate the remnants of the Cyanobacteria. And so they grew such great numbers we cannot conceive them

And then there were ye olde purple farmers who came before the daughters of Saya

Ye Olde Purple Farmers Roseobella a great daughter of the Elah of lesbian motherhood herself among the great purple farmers continue to live as planimals of the sea

Among these bacteria and viruses and detritus alike all were consumed by the great crown-tails the choanoflagellates, our closest cousins

Alongside the sons of Choanos there were the tiny golden algae

Golden Algae The sons of Dinoflagellus saw the prosperity of the sons of Chrysalgos and Choanos, and so they ate both and photosynthesized.

Sons of Dinoflagellus And do they gained more energy and prospered

In their prosperity their numbers grew. The water glowed bright in their phototrophic rituals

But soon they grew degenerate

The sons of Dinoflagellus turned to cannibalism and the water grew red with carnage

The blood poisoned all it touched

And soon the Rotifers swooped in

Consuming the remnants of a great civilization the rotifers grew fat and saved us from the plague

1 pixel = 0.407 uM 10X objective 15X eyepiece Numbered tick = 122 uM Xanthus the Dinoflagellate saw the carnage and fled, as he fled he saw the great glass houses of the Diatoms

Immune to the conquests of Rotifers and the sons of Viros the Diatoms thrived as farmers

Then he saw the coccolithophores who too grew with armored protections

And so he cried out to lord Mithra

Why must my line be deprived of such protections O Lord?

Shall I be forced to live life in danger forever?

And then he saw in the distance

Acanther son of Radios

A great starry greenhouse open to him

And so he lived within Acanther

And he found prosperity within him

Dinoflagellates farming within Radiolarians Radiolarians as floating greenhouses with glass shells farming algae

Meanwhile the green algaes grew so big they grew protection in numbers

Sargassos the Lord of Kelp grew a city millions of cells wide for he was the greatest of the phytoplankton

And so the Fungi, the sons of Chytros came to break them down

And so they ate them and releases a million spores

The fungi are the Robinhoods of the sea coexisting with the Oomycetes, kelp who want to be fungi

And so they brought energy to all the little creatures of the sea from the great ones

And from here the great zooplankton emerged

The sons of Foramer and sons of Cilliofer

The sons of Foramer in the soils and waters fished in the seas, of the spores and radiolarians and all others

They built great shells, snails built their shells off the shells of his lineage

The sons of Cilliofer were great and used their cillia to suck food into their mouths

Tiny Trilobites ate the sons of Foramer and Cilliofer

The sons of Chordatus burrowed through the soil, finding all that fell there through their gill slits and pumping it out their atriopores

Anatomy of Chordatus

Chordatus Chordatus begat Olfacter and Lancelot

Lancelot continued the traditions of his father

Olfacter bore two sons:

Vertebratus and Tunicatus

Vertebratus worked on his spinal cord

Tunicus sat on a rock and filtered the water

He pumped water through his filter so much he made it most of his body

Tunicatus bore two sons: Larvaceus and Ascidaceus

Larvaceus never settled, he built a giant house of mucus and fished with it

Ascidaceus became the ancestor of the sea squirts. He built a wooden Tunic of cellulose around himself and filtered

Mouth (top) Atriopore (left) Anus leads into atriopore

Ascidaceus bore two sons: Stolidos and Proteus

‘Proteus begat Thallasus and Enterogon

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Thalassus bore a son named Dolios who lived a solitary life fishing on his own

The arrow worms and trilobites fed off the sons of Dolios, as did many a jellyfish

But Thallasus bore more sons: Pyros and Salpus who built giant cities and nurtured their young

Pyros Salpus Pyros built a giant tube city propelled by wastewater, while Salpus built a great chain of beings