Our small progenitors

A description of panspermia to explain life on Earth

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.
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.
Through their metabolism they changed the gases in the atmosphere, continuing to build their bodies with the help of the central stellar light or other sources of energy from the depths.
Thanks to these changes they managed to keep the temperature of the air and waters relatively stable.
As the central star, which later was going to be called “the sun”,   gradually warmed, they created a global system, allowing the cooling of the atmosphere, keeping it within appropriate limits for life. In the meanwhile they developed new systems to promote learning and improve future adaptations.
There were now thousands or millions of copies almost identical which became divided into two complementary halves.
These two halves joined in different ways to ensure the transmission of traits and genetic changes. In that way it was possible to give rise to more complex organisms
One of these halves, called “female” was devoted to gestate eggs and produce new offspring, and the other, the male counterpart was dedicated to cooperate in various ways for their formation and growth. In  this manner many variants were emerging.
Some species grew to gigantic sizes, formed for associations of billion microorganisms in their aqueous spiral wraps, while others were kept separate, as in the old days.
Most living associations continued floating or swimming at all levels of seas and lakes, some groups tried to get out of the water and dragged through the dry earth with their fluid bags in tow.
They also developed roots that grew into the soil to absorb moisture and raised their leaves skyward for light and the precious air gases.
These complex associations where trillions of tiny snakes, grouped, grew and died, replicated in increasing number and in each generation they learned many things which were transmitting to the next.
The whole planet was alive, beating to the rhythm of new life attempts and explorations.
From "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents", Danilo Anton, Piriguazu Ediciones