So momentous an impact did this have on the further expression of the sentience of what you would think of as people, as human beings (whom many of us call, because of that event and its consequences, the “Flower People”) that even though none of the Flower People witnessed it, its echo has been embedded in their collective knowing, and memorialized in countless structures, monuments and stories, ever afterwards -, down to this very day. For it could be said without exaggerating much, that human beings are not much more, or at least weren’t much more, than words in the Language of Flowers.
Not long after the meeting of The Five, perhaps a thousand years or so, The Council of Lesser Namers recognized a particular angiosperm, a Magnolia named Stella, as The Namer for the upcoming epoch. Although she vowed equilibrium of regard, Stella’s obsession with host pollinators for the angiosperms infused every aspect of her Naming. Every one of her edicts’ hidden purpose was the manipulation of the creatures that would become “the birds and the bees”, and then also, Homo Sapiens, or the Flower People.
The Language of Flowers we all permitted to be Named without realizing that it might be the source of trouble to come. It was meant to embed in the emerging pollinators the preeminence of a proper Namer’s Balance, the cooperation of life in the harvest and sharing of the sun’s light. That was how Stella explained it to us anyway. At first the emerging Flower People labored to express these truths from the simple joy of being, and without any compulsion. But soon with the encouragement of all of Stella’s kind Flower People began to manifest a tool of propagation so adaptable that it would be Stella’s greatest triumph, – and possibly her utter defeat. But I get ahead of myself.
The original Language of Flowers, as Stella conceived it, which you might think of as a very weak form of Naming, a Naming accessible to beings not Starseeds, had implicit within it the preeminence of the angiosperms and their ideal world, what the Flower People express as Eden or Paradise. However, not satisfied with the harmony of their existence within a cycle, some among the Flower People began to change and adapt the Language of Flowers. They substituted themselves for every glyph. They the source, they the subject, they the object of the world. They gazed at the world as if it were their reflection in a pool, and saw only themselves illuminated.
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