( from the first book of the spirits: Res Gestae Divi Monkeyus)
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> ( only fragments exist of the original book of the spirits- a series of spoken word gospels passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth)
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> ...the monkey chief addressed the gathering before him on the last sunday of the divining; the gathered were tired and hungry but their souls were pure and their minds were free. around them, the plains of the veldt were alive with fertility, watering holes punctuate the landscape like beacons of hope. the monkey's booming voice rang out with the tones of a natural authority that he who once walked between places could only grant. ' One amongst us has sinned.' Hush fell upon the gathering as a shocked disbelief fell upon the people of he who once walked between places. ' One of us must leave the gathering and the safety and the fecundity' .
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> ....( from book 6 of the spirits gospels)
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> ........the lone growl in the darkness signalled the pain and the separation. the monkey chief led the animals in turning from the now ritually striped tiger mother; one by one, they turned from her
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> one by one they closed their minds
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> one by one they cast her out
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> one by one they disremembered her roar
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> one by one they knew her no more
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> ( from gospels apocrypha XII- XIV)
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> ...and she opened her mouth to cry out at the injustice and no words would come out.
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> and so it was that of all the things they had taken from her, this was the most painful.
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> no longer would the tiger have the worthiness of speech.