Our tiny ancestors

 Arrival of life to our planet

Danilo Anton

Before she fell at high speed into the aqueous blue belly of that world, she had spent much time asleep in the ice, protected by a massive gray rock and dust covering.

It is difficult to know how much time elapsed since she left her ancient world on the other side of these stellar and gaseous worlds. The consciousness of time requires special complexity, at least within this stellar bulge in which she was traveling,

In their old home there were other beings like her, elongated spirals of life nurtured by oceans and different, very old, very distant lakes.

Maybe she was not alone. Probably with her came also hundreds, thousands, millions of sisters also locked in their icy crusts.

In its elongated body she brought all the necessary information to reconstruct herself, to create new daughters replicated from the old codes.

When the rain stopped and rock particles settled within the roaring waves of the great sea, she realized that she had arrived. The crust cracked and the ice melted. She was alive and well in her new home.

Little by little her rock-uterus was getting smaller. Finally she was able to drift, to move in this blue unknown world, but that it looked as hospitable as her own.

Some, perhaps many of her sisters had also fallen there. They also were looking unhurried, the necessary heat, the lights, the food for their growth and replication.

After a while, they, the tiny celestial serpents, had spread throughout all the waters of the planet, oceans, the clouds, rivers, lakes, and dew. 

Gradually the liquid veins in the depths of the earth came to be populated by a multitude of tiny creatures. Mothers and daughters, many, recreating the ancient codes to generate another sphere of life in space.

Our small progenitors brought the life designs in their long and twisted spirals.

They could reproduce millions of copies almost identical and only transmit forward those stronger, more efficient, more beneficial features. ²  

Some millions years later they managed to harness the energy of the star system where the planet was orbiting to build their own bodies and to use the atmospheric gases as the basic components of their living matter.

Often the tiny organisms came together to improve their adaptation to the environment. They formed numerous partnerships in which each adopted a particular function. Protected in the crowd they managed to help each other in the difficult task of survival.

Each generation recorded the experience of success and failure. Codes became rich in new information about the blue planet and they were learning and passing on what they learned.

Gradually they occupied all the planetary liquid spaces from the high clouds to the hot water in the cracks of the rocks.

And the planet began to live differently.

They seemed to have a strategy, and perhaps they had one, embedded in ancient inherited millions of instructions from other worlds.

From the book: "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents", Danilo Anton, Piriguazu Ediciones