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At the beginning there was nothing.
Only big black emptiness.
Well it wasn’t exactly black, but what color does emptiness have?
Maybe it was pink, who knows.
It is hard to say how long this emptiness lasted, because nobody was there to tell.
Even time was just infinitely small grain in a vast darkness, ehm, or pinkness.
But then...
...hmmm, a weird word to use when there is no time, but it has to do for now...
...in the right corner of the space a small dot appeared.
And it started to grow.
When it was as big as a button on flannel shirt, it was obvious, that it was a young star.
Its glow was pleasantly warm and orange.
Imperceptible moment later another dot emerged from the darkness.
It was growing faster than the first...
...but its light was icy blue and it would sting the eyes, if there were any.
When it reached the size of the coin, there was no doubt it was another star.
Then the inevitable happened.
Both stars, drawn to each other by their newly gained gravitational forces, began to move.
They would surly collide and vanish in a gigantic explosion...
...but in the last moment something strange and unpredictable happened.
The Orange star saw determination, intelligence and nobility in Blue’s eyes.
And Blue, well, he liked slightly irregular corona around Orange.
Surfaces touched...
...but in the last moment Orange and Blue diverted their deadly trajectory...
...creating white streaks of pure energy.
They crumbled into many small glowing beads.
The emptiness wasn’t empty anymore. It was filled with thousands maybe millions of newborn stars.
One of the smallest, let’s call her Stella, felt she didn't enough energy to survive on her own.
She felt she is already losing her precious heat.
In her last moments she got a brilliant idea...
...she started to attract dust and garbage around her and wrap herself into it.
After a long and hard work Stella created crust thick enough to keep her warm.
But it was still more and more difficult to hold all that material together.
Out of despair, Stella turned to her mother, the Orange star, with a plea.
And indeed after a while a seed landed on Stella’s crust, burrowing deep inside.
First only a small green leaf pierced the crust.
But then more and more joined.
Eventually thin stem turned into thick and hard trunk. The plant had turned into a tree.
Its roots spreading throughout the entire crust, stabilizing and firming it.
Stella could finally rest on her effort to keep the crust together.
She was happy, but as every living being in solitude, she became to feel lonely.
Blue star saw her loneliness and decided to create three tribes to occupy the Tree.
Coronamea to live in the treetop...
...Truncus to live on the truck...
...and Terren to live and farm at roots.
That's how the Tree got his name Yggdrasil: The Tree of Life