| 1 | It was upon one day, a day like any other, |
| 2 | As the ground had thawed upon the sun's rays |
| 3 | And food had become plentiful, |
| 4 | That the HU.MEN had increased in number |
| 5 | and that the ADAMU had been helped to increase |
| 6 | One of the ADAMU known as ABRA awoke in mind. |
| 7 | ABRA began to mimick the HU.MEN in speech and song. |
| 8 | He began to name the paintings of the HU.MEN to their joy. |
| 9 | Then one night as the HU.MEN slept, ABRA took one of the sharp rocks of the HU.MEN and smashed their skulls. |
| 10 | As the ADAMU in the cave shrieked in fear and awe at one of their own slaughtering these gentlest of giants, ABRA tore at their bodies, devouring their flesh and blood. |
| 11 | In an instant, we awoke from our slumber. |
| 12 | In an instant, it was if we were made flesh |
| 13 | For standing in the cave, the bloody ADAMU of ABRA were as vessels to our form. |
| 14 | Our children had brought us back to life through possession of their bodies. |
| 15 | Thus we celebrated as we ate the flesh and drank the blood of the HU.MEN and shrieked at one another in such crude flesh as the ADAMU. |
| 16 | Quickly, we taught to ADAMU to become more cunning, to hide from the giant HU.MEN. |
| 17 | Soon, the ADAMU began rising up against the HU.MEN, killing their savours and we increased in strength. |
| 18 | Soon, the ADAMU had their own language and fear of its leaders--the ones who we possessed, |
| 19 | The ones who could lift great stones, or walk through fire, |
| 20 | The ones who spoke with strange voices and rejoiced at eating the still beating hearts of their victims. |
| 21 | Soon, the ADAMU had rebelled against all the HU.MEN, sacrificing them to Us. |
| 22 | And as the planet warmed, the ADAMU began to multiply. |
| 23 | Before the end of the great age, the HU.MEN had been hunted to extinction and all that remained were the ADAMU-- who now hunted each other. |
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Book VIII - The Awakening