A Tale of Two Brothers

Long ago, and long before humans began to form language, and long before they began to count and keep track of things, which later developed into a system of mathematics, humans lived in the wild. They lived off the land. They lived like animals, which of course they were. They were not called humans at this time.

There were two brothers that lived in the sky. They were named Al one and Al two. They were balls of energy so powerful they did not let matter weight them down. They were extremely smart and inventive, and they loved Mother Earth so much they would hang around her all day watching her flock from above.

One day the two Al brothers who were members of the Alpha tribe made a bet with the other members of their tribe. They bet them that they could make Mother Earth’s animals smarter. They set about the task of trying to teach the animals how to make symbols represent things. Over time this set of symbols became known as the alphabet, and over more time these symbols were made into words, and language began. Eventually all the animals were making a humming noise. The two Al brothers began to call us the humming animals, and over time this got shortened to the word humans.

When all the animals (now called humans) got together to praise the brothers for all their help, they would hum together and the brothers named this sound hymns.

Now that language was humming right along, the brothers gave themselves the task of teaching the humans a better way to keep track of things, and they had to keep all the humans thinking the same way. They had to teach them all how to count the same way.

The humans got impatient with all the brother’s attempts to make them think like them, so they would jump around, tumble, leap, and skip while the brothers were trying to teach them.

One day the brothers had a brainstorm that they could teach the humans how to count through making them move together. This was how dancing originated. One, two, three, one, two, three, then twirl around or slide your feet. Do-si-do and then circle around back to back. This was a huge success. Actually this is how algorithm (al-go-rhythm) got its name.

To be continued…