In those days humans had feathers and they flew like birds and they did not know love or hate and they could not form words in their minds.
The humans built their homes on cliff tops and in high trees. They lived on fruit they found in the trees and they were happy.
There was one in their number who loved to travel alone. This person travelled the world and wondered at the beauty of the earth and she sang wordless songs to the earth as she flew over it.
But it was the moon which drew her. On nights when the moon was full she would fly higher and higher, staring at the moon, reaching out her arms to it.
One night she touched the moon. It felt cool and smooth and she reached up and took it in her arms and brought it home with her and as they travelled through the night the moon whispered secrets in her ear and the human found that she could form thoughts in her head, and she felt words form on her tongue and she was afraid.
She rested the moon in the branches of a great oak tree and other humans flocked around and nearly broke down the poor tree as they crowded to touch the moon and as they touched they too found thoughts forming in their minds and words forming on their tongues and they knew the world had changed forever for them. The worst part was that they found their feathers falling from their bodies and they became naked and ugly and they could no longer fly.
The humans used their speech to attack the moon and the person who had brought the moon to earth and they expelled them from the earth because they thought the old ways would return.
They wrapped great vines around the oak tree and they pulled its branches with the moon caught in them to earth and they released the tree and catapulted the moon and the one who had started all the trouble out to the sky.
The old ways did not return. Now humans had to think and speak and strive to live without wings or warm feathers.
Above them the moon hung in the sky and clinging to its surface was the one who caused it all.
Forever and a day she reaches toward the earth and calls and calls to the people there to let her come home.