Ape-men, now devoid of their fur, had to accept not only their brand-new appearance but also this world turned upside down.
For it wasn't just fur they had shed.
Initially walking on all fours, after being drenched in that prehistoric downpour, their ears grew sharp and long over time, their hearing far surpassing the norm, their legs becoming longer and stronger, while, conversely, their arms began to shorten. They hadn't lost the ability to leap from treetop to treetop, yet they also had to adapt to walking on two legs.
God often watched over this uniquely rational group on Earth.
The pallid torrential rain had transformed these rational beings; they were long-lived, immune to diseases, intelligent and skilled in hunting. Since shedding their fur, not a single ape-man had died an unnatural death, not even one had died of old age.
They were like the elves of legends.
Time swiftly passed, and Chen Yi saw the rapid evolution of these ape-men due to the storm. In just a few years, they had progressed from walking on all fours to upright walking. Facing the cold, at first they draped their shed fur over themselves, and it was during this process that the concept of clothing was born among the ape-men.
They vigorously hunted large beasts, stripping the fur from their prey. No longer did they use fur as fuel for fire or decoration like their ancestors, but rather as clothes to keep warm.
In the face of other creatures altered by the violent rain, the ape-men were always cautious, often acting after careful observation, but this wasn't a sign of fear.
On the contrary, they had simply learned to make adequate preparations. The Hunters, led by the Ape King, would deliver a fatal blow after long surveillance.
Their land was rich in resources and fertile, presenting no real risk of food scarcity for the experienced Hunters.
The Ape King led them in hunting, setting trap after trap, expanding hunting territory, battling with torches against packs of wolves and other creatures, marking each expansive river…
Their tribe was no longer confined to natural rock walls and caves or the primitive hollows of huge trees, but had established the early form of a city within hundreds of fences and earthen trenches.
Because of the king, they called the boundary of their life the Kingdom.
With such evolution, it wouldn't take many generations for them to raise ancient colossal wonders from the ground, eventually to be known as miracles.
The entire tribe burst forth with the brilliance of life, embracing the world before them with all their might.
The Ape King was their leader.
Thus, to honor the king's achievements, his tribespeople gave him a name.
Sapo.
Meaning revered like the rivers.
The King's brother, being closest to the king, was personally given a name by the king himself.
Al.
Meaning second only to me.
The people of the tribe either received their names from Sapo and Al or from their own kin.
Once everyone had a name, the Sapo King said to the people,
"You have a name, I have a name, but our tribe has never had a name,"
"We are a tribe bestowed with the grace of fire, a tribe with language, not to be counted among the beasts of the earth!"
To distinguish themselves, these lives no longer beasts needed a name for the entire species, differentiating their entire tribe from all the beasts on Earth.
So, as the Sapo King said, their tribe needed a name, the land they lived on needed a name.
Under the glow of firelight, all rational beings on Earth gathered here, holding their breath, crowding and jostling each other, trembling from head to toe, even shedding tears.
The wish in everyone's heart went without saying.
Other than the being who granted us language, who else in this world could bestow upon us a name?
In the brilliance of the flames, under the leadership of the Sapo King, the trembling crowd knelt down involuntarily.
The Sapo King prostrated himself on the ground, pleading fervently to that exalted being above for a name.
The people also brought their hands together, kneeling on the ground, praying to that supreme existence.
They pleaded for a name to distinguish their entire race from the beasts.
Finally...
An important voice suddenly descended upon their hearts, lifting them out of reality, and without warning, a tribal name was firmly established.
"Logos people."
It meant language, and further, it signified rationality, laws, fate, measures, and inevitability born from language.
The Logos Kingdom symbolized the kingdom of language, the kingdom of reason.
Sapo King suddenly stood up from the ground, tensing every muscle, using all his strength thus far to spread his arms wide.
All Logos people raised their heads, fervently gazing at the flames representing that presence, tears uncontrollably springing forth from their eyes.
"Logos people!"
"We are the Logos people!"
The mountain breeze came gently, and facing the glow of fire, they couldn't help but cheer jubilantly, passionately roaring out those syllables, shouting the name of their entire race.
Marked by the bestowal of their name, the Logos people were thoroughly distinguished from the beasts!
"My tribespeople, be proud!"
Sapo King opened his arms wide and proclaimed,
"Our kingdom shall embrace an invincible midsummer!"
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Chen Yi noticed that the life span of the Logos people was much longer than any humans he had seen before and far exceeded that of their ape-man ancestors.
That pale prehistoric downpour had changed them.
After shedding their fur and walking erect, the Logos people possessed handsome features, pointed ears, and tall statures. Their instinct to climb trees hadn't diminished but had instead improved with the change in their physical abilities, although the Logos people preferred to walk on two feet.
The Logos people explored the world before them as best they could, with Sapo King leading the strong men and women of the tribe on hunting expeditions, while his brother Al busied himself with management, construction, and reproduction.
The rich resources of the Prehistoric Era nourished these Logos people, and combined with strong reason, Sapo King almost always returned with enough food to satisfy his people for a week.
Under such circumstances, the Logos Kingdom grew from less than fifty individuals during the ape-man period to several thousand hundreds of years later.
Chen Yi could not ignore the only rational life on earth.
He discovered that although the birthrate of the Logos children was not high, significantly lower than during their ape-man era, the likelihood of infant mortality was very low. The abundance of prehistoric meat provided the Logos children with ample nutrition, rapidly expanding the entire Logos race at a staggering pace, quickly dethroning various ferocious animals as the forest overlords.
Sapo King and his brother Al verbally established tribal customs; every adult Logos individual had to participate in hunting once every fortnight, while Logos children would join the hunt monthly after a year of training.
Nearly inexhaustible food and various resources allowed each Logos individual to live a life of plenty; naturally, they acquired their own possessions, whether dried meat, fur, or stone tools.
With the development of reason and the gradual abundance of resources, some Logos people emerged as craftsmen specializing in the sharpening of stone and bone tools, and carpenters who hewed towering trees, few in number but still marking a significant step in the advancement of Logos civilization.
Meanwhile, in this rugged and resource-rich era, a group of people, after becoming affluent with dried meat and fur stone tools, began to serve the flames beneath the rock walls without compensation, praying for the kingdom's protection.
They substituted the tribe's hunting traditions with the donation of food.
At first, two or three like-minded individuals gathered to serve the flames. As the hunt's bounty grew, more and more Logos people, forgoing the hunt, spontaneously served the flames.
Ultimately, with more and more people worshipping the flames and hunting becoming disorganized, Sapo King had no choice but to establish new rules.
Sapo King regulated the selection of those who would serve the flames through casting lots and appointing, naming his brother Al as the leader of the fire worship.
In this manner,
among the Logos people, the earliest priesthood was born.