29. The Neolithic

The world changed
When the last mammoth died.
Humanity was cast out of his Eden
They fell from nature's grace.
He was rejected

Rejecting nature.
His tools became his only friends.
His clothes became the only warmth.

Rejecting the caves
He built his own shelter.
Finding himself hungry
He toiled in the dirt and cultivated the land.
Taming the wild ox
Animals were domesticated.
As Man asked for forgiveness
To The Great Spirit
Rituals became more complex.
The chieftain medicine man became important
He was the communicator
The liaison to The Great Forgemaster and gardener
The village looked to him as it expanded
Into first cities 
Then priesthoods.

28. The Paleolithic

Animals still ruled this new Eden.
They towered high
Proudly walking among tall savannah grasses
Surveying all they owned.
They lived comfortably on their throne
Lording over the smaller, weaker primates.
As they grazed on the tops of trees
The dreaded saber tooth
Stealthily hunted in the yellow sea of African grass.
Man was still the lowest on the food-chain
But he became a fierce competitor.
They lived in fear of the shadows among the golden points
Firmly grasping their stony blades
As they hunted the wild beasts.
Huddling together in their small groups,
Humanity tried to survive.
The welcoming trees that offered protection were long gone.
As the ice slowly moved down from the north
Grinding into the mountains.
Man began to move.
They left the warm womb of Africa and spread across the world.
Invading Asia.
Invading Australia.
Invading Europe.
Invading North and South America.
Mammoths put on woolly coats
Their coats would be no match for the pointed stones and red flower of man.
The mammoth fell.
Man became the extinction event.
They chased the mighty bear from his caves.
Then, to mark their territory,
They painted on the walls.
With the handprint as their symbol of defiance,
A spear that pierced the painted animal,
Man claimed the world as their own.

22. The Jurassic: The Empire's Peak

Pangea slowly began to split

Becoming Gondwana and Laurasia.

What once was hot and dry

Became warm and wet.

The climate turned more tropical.

Triassic deserts turned green

As trees and plants rolled out into the full Jurassic Eden.

Leaves were traded for needles

Coelophysis dreams slowly become reality

As this “Other Lizard” claimed his dominance.

He sharpened his claws

He lengthened his serrated teeth

Growing to an enormous size.

“Other lizard’s” victims changed as well

To cope with his tyrannical reign.

Plates of armor and bony spikes were forged

In their evolutionary arsenal.

Others changed from claw to foot

Standing on tree trunk feet.

“Other Lizard” ruled this coniferous Eden with tooth and claw.

Threatening the titanic sauropods

Munching on Iguanadon.

“Whatever I want I will take” was “Other Lizard’s” law.

Tiny therapods and rodents

Feed on left over carcasses.

Pterosaurs grew wings

Took to the air

As Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs grew fins.

They journeyed back to the sea to start a new life

Away from “Other Lizard”

And his terrible reign.

Dinosaurs came into their own

As the rulers of this Jurassic garden.

21. The Triassic: The Rise of a New Empire

On strong back legs of Plateosaurs and Ceolurosaurs

The dinosaurs built their powerful empire.

They were the noble ancestors of great kings.

Claiming the land as their own.

Walking through mighty forests of

The Post Permian aftermath.

Surveying their kingdom with strong eyes,

Sharp teeth

And swift foot.

They knew

One day

They will be great.

The small Ceolophysis

Who ran among the ferns

Dreamt of that day

When others would tremble at his descendants’ mighty roar

And fear the name of the tyrant king.

He knew the prosauropods

Towering over him

Eating the tops of trees

Would meet their match

In the new Eden that is to come.