Primordial

When was the beginning and what did it look like? 5 billion years ago the earth was an incandescent ball, crusts and crevices formed in the cool down, the atmosphere evolved. The timeline as we know it, of the evolution of life on earth is deep and mysterious, dotted with ice ages and warmings, with billion year old bacteria, 500 million year old plant ancestors in the form of mosses and liverworts, deep sea gardens swarmed by multicellular animals existing in a simple paradise. We can only reach so far back scientifically (Darwin’s dilemma), and while we may not know for sure, we can imagine life forming, adapting and evolving and what it may have looked like. The primordial state in our mind’s eye is full of magical stones, metals and crags, tangled roots and sacred geometry, raw forms and oozing surfaces…maybe we remember.