Old Gaiad/38

This is the story of the greatest war among the Spiralians

This is the saga of the Brachiopods and the Bivalves

The ancient house of the Brachiopods found themselves beset on all sides by the rising Bivalves

Bivos who fished out of his two shells shed his radula

Bivos And so he took upon himself a new form

Modern anatomy of a son of Bivos Bivos bore a son and a daughter: Peter and Aphrodite

Aphrodite became the ancestress of the Oysters

Peter bore many sons who became known as Trigonians

There was a great massacre of the sons of Peter

Among his sons there was Unus who escaped and became the ancestor of the river mussells

Keeper of the Pearly Gates, Peter defends us

From the river mussells come the river Pearls

His sons live on the fishes, as lice in childhood and on the rocks as pearlbearers in elderhood

Aphrodite became the Mother of Pearls and the Mother of Oysters

Pearl structure

Among her countless daughters Aphrodite bore three unique sons: Scallon, Spinos, and Pyros

Scallops Spiny Oysters and Flame Scallops

Scallon Spinos Pyros Scallon had a million eyes

Inside the Scallop Scallon was great and bountiful, and he swam free from the dangers that haunted him

Clammon was the son of Bivos Clammon begat Cockle and Myidus and Adapa and Venus Cockle had a son who was the ancestor of the giant clams

Cockle Giant Clam

Myidus bore three sons Zebra, Softshell, and Teredo the sea termite

Zebra Mussells Softshell clam Adapa begat Geodoros ancestor of the Geoducks, and Razoron ancestor of the Razor Shells

Geoduck Razor Shell Venus became ancrestress of the Venus clams

Among her children she bore a daughter Corbiculacea ancestress of the freshwater clams

Brachios begat three sons for the three houses of the Brachiopods Lingulus the tailed was the archconservative in the house of Brachios Lingulus son of Lingulus maintained the tradition to its fullest Discinidus son of Lingulus was smaller and more clammy

Lingulus the serpentine Calciatus begat Craniidus and Articulus

Craniidus had no tail

Articulus was cheap in the building of his children. He built them without anuses, as blobs that couldn’t swim that metamorphosed in an instant.

The sons of Articulus were numerous beyond number, a formidable force against the sons of Bivos



A son of Articulatus But as the Bivalves and the Brachiopods fought their war a new threat emerged. A threat greater than any could imagine before