FREE ESSAY ON BUTTERFLY TRANSFORMATIONS

BUTTERFLY TRANSFORMATIONS

"Butterfly Transformations"
(A future myth told in past tense)
Before the existence of Earth, there were four winged elemental gods,
and one superior god. These gods and goddesses were: the sky goddess,
Gemalia; the water goddess, Saraces; the earth god, Chago; the fire
goddess, Argon; and the Superior Goddess, DawnDo. These five kept
constant watch over the universe, adamantly flying over and throughout the
wide abyss. During one of their days off, they were playing kick the can
among the stars. They all came flying down towards the can and collided,
creating planet earth. Because of the great collision, their wings fell off and
mystically transformed into millions of wondrous, colorful butterflies.
"This great planet," DawnDo reasoned to herself, "was created from the
sacrifice of four great gods. I shall show them the utmost respect and
create a race of new beings from these incapable butterflies to care for and
tend to the rich lands that this marvelous planet holds." With that, DawnDo
created the first human from a few baseball cards, a sack of marbles and a
dead parakeet named Petey. She formed the next human out of three bricks,
a large orange and a few blades of grass from the field in which her flying
horse was grazing. DawnDo breathed life into the bodies, thus creating the
beginning of mankind. These humans reproduced and soon the human
population was that of the butterflies'. That is, there was exactly one
butterfly for every human. 
The humans took wonderful care of the earth. So much so, in fact,
that DawnDo decided to create more new creatures from the land itself.
There became thousands of new birds, there were lions, sheep, cows,
elephants, pigs, llamas, snakes and all kinds of amazing animals. The
humans were so grateful to have been given such splendor to live amongst,
that they decided to work extra hard to put the fertile lands to good use, and
to obey the few rules that DawnDo gave them. The golden wheat shone in
the bright sunlight, the fruit trees were dew-laden and plentiful, and the
blooming flowers pronounced such beauty, that it became an ultimate sin
for a person were to pluck one from its natural surroundings.
For thousands of years the earth progressed greatly, the crops became
more abundant and the humans were proud of their accomplishments.
Throughout the years, though, DawnDo had become overconfident in her
creations and began to watch them less and less, as the years rolled by.
One day, while her back was turned, the Evil wind being, Kathore snuck
into the planet. Kathore crept into the humans' whispers and spread lies and
rumors throughout the land. Many people grew to hate each other, and
many wars broke out. The lies warped the humans' minds so they killed,
raped, maimed and destroyed almost everything that they had worked so
hard for. There were some truly good people, however, that did not join in
the wars, but tried to stop them. 
DawnDo saw that all was no longer good, and she summoned the
water god, Saraces, to create a place in the sea where evil could go in, but
never come out. So Saraces created a place that is now called the Bermuda
Triangle, to hold the basis of corruption itself. DawnDo banished the
extremely evil and careless Kathore to the Bermuda Triangle, and she was
never seen or heard of again. DawnDo summoned Saraces once more,
along with Chago, Argon and Gemalia and held a brief conference with
them as to how to take care of the ill-hearted humans. They decided to make
the oceans boil as hot as lava. If an evil person touched the water, they
would instantly melt into the water and vanish, but if a good person touched
the waters, nothing would happen. (This event was later documented to have
been an "El Nino.") All the evil on earth was destroyed, but the water on
the planet had been intoxicated by evil, and was too poisonous to drink. The
whole earth began to die because the water was too toxic for even the
vegetation to withstand. The remaining pure and good people were becoming
sick. The gods quickly plotted their solution.
DawnDo withdrew Saraces, Argon, Chago and Gemalia from the
earth to go live in the Paradise of the gods. This would also be the place
that any fair and virtuous human could go when they died. The gods
reunited the dying humans with their butterfly counterparts, thus providing
the humans their wings with which to fly into Paradise. Once into
Paradise, the humans could change their form back and forth between
butterfly and person for all eternity. 
*Whenever a baby is born, a butterfly is born with it, remaining in
paradise until the baby grows old and dies. When the person dies, the
butterfly returns to earth, to unite with their human form, flying back up
Paradise with a human soul. This is also why humans often have dreams 
about flying and wish that they had wings of their own to fly with*