Maybe one made before your 'beginning'. It WAS the beginning - that's the point. Modern Humanity begins with that. We became a breed apart from the rest of nature and can do with pretty much what we like with it - including domesticating wolves and turning them into a myriad of different dog breeds. We are thus storytellers and dog-breeders; we are the transfiguring alchemists of nature who can take the mineral deposits of a billion years and an understanding of the laws of physics and turn them into a mighty steam engine, or a nuclear bomb, or a contrabass clarinet. We are the tricksters & myth-makers who end up believing our own hype.
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